Recent content by acidliam

Right sound, thanks for all the advice men. I've done new installs in France and the UK many moons ago, always using the old nudge, shout, nudge, shout method, didn't realise that was the norm. Will give it a whirl, see if we can get something sorted. Appreciate all the help.

Yeah I'm starting to think the dish/LNB needs aligning. I did have it down to the box but by a process of elimination, its not that. There seems to be no correlation between the time of day either box works, or indeed which box will or won't work, so its not a receiver issue, and the fact theres...

So bit of an update. Managed to get hold of a basic box, Boston make, cheap Chinese thing. Plugged it in, all worked fine on Astra 1. Got all the free to air UK channels last night. This afternoon, everythings gone again, apart from sky News. Apparently signal strength is 70, but quality is 1...

Cheers. Nothing doing on that either. Apparently everything was fine for 2 hours after the wife unplugged the box and left it for a bit (so on the default transponder) then bbc stopped, but she still had sky channels, now nothing. Box has been unplugged for a few hours as well. Im thinking it...

Bumping this topic because it sort of helped me yesterday, and similar question/problem from the original really Live in Ibiza, but just spent 2 weeks back in the UK. Got home and had to turn the power off after getting a nice 240v kick up the arse from an outdoor light. Had to redo the...