Recent content by billkuk

sounds like the problem I had when I set up my sys a couple of weeks back. I was having strong signal but no quality. For some reason I decided to do a auto scan for the shear hell of it and I started picking up channels. I didn't realize that I should have tried to set to a known...

Hi, Tried Hispasat and we do watch that. Trouble is my wife is Colombian and we have her mother in law staying with us for 3 months (our first son was born last week so she is here helping out), and I hoped to get some home from home entertainment for her while she was here. Clearly I should...

Hi Guys, Thanks for all your pointers. I checked out lyngsat a while back when I was looking for Colombian TV and it did mentioned mpeg 4 - I didn't realize that was something I was suppose to look for when choosing my receiver :-DOH2 - That is quite a bummer. I wonder if the technomate guys...

Many thanks to Satman and Robbo for their advice. I managed to get my setup working which is 85cm dish, Technomate 2200 motor and Technomate 5300 USB Super reciever. Getting most of the stuff I want except Colombian channels on Intelsat 905. For some reason when I point to this and get the...

Thanks, that is great. Hopefully will be putting up the dish this weekend. Cheers Bill

Hi, The link you gave didn't work as it seems to require privilages that I don't have in order to access. Reading between lines on your reply it seems that the built in angle for an offset is neither here or there? Many thanks, Bill

Hi SatMan I am having trouble understanding something. I have a TM2200 Motor and an 85cm dish (ECO I think as the make) which states it has an offset angle of 23.6. My Lat is 51.278, long -0.748 The TM2200 manual says that I subtract 30-7.4 give a dish bracket angle of 22.6 degrees. What...