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Hן Attached pics of the dish and the LNB. will appreciate your comments.

As far as I know, it is an offset dish. I'll post a pic tomorrow. thanx for the info so far.

Topper - thanx for your patience and explanations. as you can tell, I'm a newbie to this and (almost) everything is news to me. as far as I can understand now - my dish is equipped with a single LNB (it is a separate dish from the two other dishes that receive hotbird, nilesat and astra and is...

Hi people and thanx for your comments. my dish's (measured) diameter is 87 cm and as far as I can tell it's more than sufficient since there is a commercial company that provides content via the Amos and they are using even smaller dishes, so I guess that the problem is elsewhere. since I dont...

Hi my question regards a satellite which I assume not many of the members familiar with - Amos 4W but I think that my question is not specific to this sat. anyhow, I live in Israel and I want to receive Amos. I've set up the dish (with a single lnb) as far as I can tell, to the right direction...

Hi First of all, I hope that my post is at the right place. My question is - looking at the Lyngsat site for example, I see that there are many technical terms regradind to the satellites. sr-fec, sid-vpid, onid-tid and so one. is there a guide/documentation the I can find on the web that I can...

Thanks for your reply. I must confess that I'm quite new to the sat thing. I've setup my dish and it's quite fascinating. that is why I was looking for firmware updates. from your reply I understand that they are key unlocking. no need for that. Thanks.

Hi I hope I've posted it in the right place. I have a Magnum FTA2505 legend digital receiver. as far as I know it is the Amstrad 16100 under a different brand name. I would like to know if indeed it is the same set and if so - if the software updates for the Amstrad are compatible with the...