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Had a call about lunchtime today from a guy who had got my number via a friend down the pub. OK, any publicity is good publicity. Apparently he tried to install an " Openbox " he brought from the UK, but it would not work. Having played with that, and failed, he re-connected his Sky+ HD box which told him no signal is being received.
Standard kind of fault I get, or so I thought!
Went round when finished with previous tasks and took a peek at the problem. First thing I did was check the Sky+ HD box signal strength ( not that I believe a single thing any Sky box tells me ) and it stated signal on tuner 1 was ok, but displayed " no signal being received " on all channels. Checked F type on cable and no outer connection left, remade the connection, all OK?
Yes, on the Sky box, with the exception on 10714 missing ( Community installation by a company known to me and not the first time I´ve had that! )
Now to the " Openbox "
OK, most of us know what they do and I´m not going to comment on that here, other to say it did not do the job as all encrypted channels were just that, encrypted!
But, also, many of the free to air channels were showing no signal or channel not valid ( something like that anyway, was getting interested now so took little notice of the error message )
Hmm!
Got the tester out, I can see ITV 3, ITV2 etc etc, Openbox states no signal on 10906 V ( ITV 3 ) and not valid on 10758 V ( ITV 2 ), but could see 10818 V ( BBC1 South etc ).
Could not see 10906 V on the box from first to last. Found 10758 V in the transponder list and scanned it! Did I get ITV2 etc, no chance! It scanned 11597 V rather than 10758 V. Tried three times, same result.
OK, Channel 4 +1 was missing, so scanned 10729 V and got something completely different again from the upper band.
I gave up! Told the guy to take the box back to the UK and get it replaced or his money back.
Never had anything so weird as that before.
Strange thing is, while trying to assist a new member find the stations he wanted today, 11597 V was the transponder!
Standard kind of fault I get, or so I thought!
Went round when finished with previous tasks and took a peek at the problem. First thing I did was check the Sky+ HD box signal strength ( not that I believe a single thing any Sky box tells me ) and it stated signal on tuner 1 was ok, but displayed " no signal being received " on all channels. Checked F type on cable and no outer connection left, remade the connection, all OK?
Yes, on the Sky box, with the exception on 10714 missing ( Community installation by a company known to me and not the first time I´ve had that! )
Now to the " Openbox "
OK, most of us know what they do and I´m not going to comment on that here, other to say it did not do the job as all encrypted channels were just that, encrypted!
But, also, many of the free to air channels were showing no signal or channel not valid ( something like that anyway, was getting interested now so took little notice of the error message )
Hmm!
Got the tester out, I can see ITV 3, ITV2 etc etc, Openbox states no signal on 10906 V ( ITV 3 ) and not valid on 10758 V ( ITV 2 ), but could see 10818 V ( BBC1 South etc ).
Could not see 10906 V on the box from first to last. Found 10758 V in the transponder list and scanned it! Did I get ITV2 etc, no chance! It scanned 11597 V rather than 10758 V. Tried three times, same result.
OK, Channel 4 +1 was missing, so scanned 10729 V and got something completely different again from the upper band.
I gave up! Told the guy to take the box back to the UK and get it replaced or his money back.
Never had anything so weird as that before.
Strange thing is, while trying to assist a new member find the stations he wanted today, 11597 V was the transponder!