Thinking about motorising my satellite dish

[Tony1A]

For the hell of it. Budget about £100. Should do some damage for that amount of buck! Hey Hairybadger! Yes, I'm hooked, I admit it. But I have no plans to go bigger....just yet! LOL!

 

[Lazarus]

But I have no plans to go bigger....just yet! LOL!

Oh yes you do ...................

 

[Lazarus]

£100?

That'll get you two Skybox F3s ...................... !! (Well, I've got two)

 

[Tony1A]

Stop that! No, I'm just happy to be scanning the skies. BTW, how many channels can the Skybox store? How good are they?

 

[Archived-1]

I presume your scanning the $ channels tony ?, if so there will be an option to just scan fta,
the skybox f3 is a good box for the money and I think it will give you the space for 10.000 channels, but I would not go for the skybox f3s atm as mine does not move the dish correctly,
its not a problem to me as I use another box to drive the motor.

 

[Lazarus]

5k, I think.

Enough, anyway - especially if you weed out carp, Radio etc.

 

[Tony1A]

Even when I set my Medion box to scan FTA only, it still put $ channels in.

 

[Lazarus]

I presume your scanning the $ channels tony ?, if so there will be an option to just scan fta,
the skybox f3 is a good box for the money and I think it will give you the space for 10.000 channels, but I would not go for the skybox f3s atm as mine does not move the dish correctly,
its not a problem to me as I use another box to drive the motor.

We discussed this in the Skybox Forum and mine drives the 80cm no problem but struggles with H targets on the 1.1m: The answer is simply to select a V Channel. No need for a Positioner via another box.



http://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/threads/skybox-f3s.159049/page-3#post-851175

 

[Tony1A]

So how about the Technomate?

 

[Lazarus]

So how about the Technomate?

Even when I set my Medion box to scan FTA only, it still put $ channels in.

I had a Kaon that did that: I selected Scan All and it just scanned FTA!

Poor programming.

 

[Archived-1]

we have spoke about this tivu but I did not get the chance to explain what it was doing, if I send it to 45e it goes to 42e tivu or some where in between, and yes my setting are correct :-)

 

[Lazarus]

Ah, right: Well that is odd. The issue I have is with reluctance to actually get moving at all (Not dissimilar to me getting up in the morning - needs a good kick!)

 

[Tony1A]

Still favour that Technomate Tm 5200D! Good price, too. Just found out the Medion box stores 3200 channels....oh dear!

 

[Lazarus]

Well just go for it!


Just checked and you can also get two of those for £100 ...................

 

[Analoguesat]

Well done Tony. The credit is yours bud, you have done the work - ok we have provided a bit of encouragement and some advice but you are the one who has got it working.

 

[Tony1A]

Well the Technomate does have nearly THREE times the capacity of the Medion! Thanks Analoguesat!

 

[Vipersan]

..No point in putting in my 10 cents (yep gone american for a while)..most here would know what I'd recommend ..though don't know how good the successor is ?
It may me a bit limited channel storage wise ..but you gotta lurv that tuner for DXing.

 

[Archived-1]

I am a fan of the technomates tony I am using two atm and I would be using 3 but one died :-(.

 

[Tony1A]

The Technomate it is then! I would like the HD version, but the price goes silly!

 

[Analoguesat]

Useful links

whats changed recently / whats new

http://www.lyngsat.com/

http://en.kingofsat.net/news.php

http://www.flysat.com/


And a useful channel finder - put different options into the drop downs in the pink box

http://en.kingofsat.net/search.php