Recent content by ameolive

Sorry I'm not an expert it all sounds terribly complicated : probably I should not have posted the question in first place ! Anyway as for the dish size I'm living in EUR and with my 80 cm dish I can receive at any time C4 ( signal strentgth 100% quality 30% ) except in heavy rain at night...

Can you provide me with more information about mimic a Sky receiver ? At the moment I've been using a standard digibox and while I can receive here in Rome C4 and C5 there is no chance to get BBC interactive on 12441 V. I'm wondering if I can get these BBC channels with a different receiver that...

Hi Dbolton Do yu mean that in Varese you could receive all the BBC channels using a mere 1.mt dish while here in Rome we cannot receive them even using a monster of 3.0 mt ? That's just add more to my frustration ! I really hope that someone of BBC read these threads so they can understand...

Hi I'm living in Rome EUR zone and I can ensure that I can receive both CH4 and Five with a .8 mt dish and standard LNB ( 20 euro ). The only problem is CH4 that in heavy rain disappears, while Five is always prefectly received. I have also noticed that there is a striking difference of...

Lummer Eursat people can tell you whatever they want to sell you the most expensive equipment . Thankfully we are living in the era of the Enlightment and we can judge by ourself , these are the facts : 1) From the official ASTRA charts, you see that with a .9 mt dish you can receive ASTRA 2B...

Dear Lummer I will always reccomend this site to get the most accurate and clear information on DIY digibox installation: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/de.sullivan/ As for equipment there are plenty of places not far from where you live where you can find all you need here is just a list ...

Anton I'm not sure about this C4 regional variant theory, again when we tune on 12.168 we get several C4 ( the cited regional variant ) but all of them are coming from the same transponder trasmitting on 12.168. So I cannot see any reason why they should have a different signal...

I fully agreed with you ; it is an apparent no-sense but I can ensure that in my case it just worked as I described. By the way since yesterday, the situation here in Rome is back to normality (I mean no freezing pictures or pixelation at any hour ).Of course when i select frequency 12.168...

I'm in Rome and coming back from my summer holiday yesterday ( it was sunny and temperature over 30 deg ) I have also noticed a deterioration in CH4 signal ( occasional pixelation and picture freezing ). I have immediately checked the signal strength on 12.168 ( the CH4 frequency ) and...

Thanks Polomint The difference in quality reception we have here in Rome between 2A and 2B north is so striking that, in my humble opinion, it should deserve a better attention from ASTRA even for the purpose of enlarging the market to new potential operators. Having said that I have...

Thanks for your replies. It appears to have been just an isolated episode as since then I haven't exeperienced anymore pixelation. I confirm that everything was fine through the ' added channels ' menu; this is the reason why I guessed that the C4, I was watching on the EPG , was transmitting...

I'm Rome and so far I haven't had any problem receiving C4 using my 80 cm dish even in case of light raining, however tonight I started having some pixelation and occasional breack-ups. When I checked transponder 12168V, I had a beautiful 30 % quality and 100 % strength The above figures are...

Many thanks for the replies I will let you know as soon as I get the replacement card ( if ever I manage to receive it ..) If worse come to worse I will try to call Freetoview from Italy, as last ditch tentative, and see if I can obtain a new card. Thankfully here in Rome even with a 80 cm...