Recent content by chrislloret

working again, keys at the usual suspects. Chris

Hi fluff, what do yo want to receive and how big a dish would you need? Often a parabol in the classic sense is not neccesary. There are flat antennas (you can build wonderful birdhouses out of them,have one wall facing south the antenna and the other wall plywood as well as the floor) as well...

@CH 10pounds gets you an external harddrive enclosure and that you can put on any desktop or notebook with USB. Here you can repair any damage. However,it looks like you have a nother problem. If your IO connector for the floppy AND the CD is gone,it might be that your internal HD connection is...

Thats right, we did just that at a sight where we could not get the signal because of a rather high mountain. So get this: Distance to dish: ca 3.7km. At the dishsite a plastic box for mains electrics 80x80x40cm. Inside this box a digital receiver,powered by 12V,a 95A Car Batterie and a 12V...

Also not to forget are the m-Vision receivers, especially the VN series. You get a CI,"magic" Cardreader and over an ADSL connection access to loads of channels via FS. And all of it without much knowlege about it.....come to think of it,without any know how. Only drawback is the not so top...

Well, if his SLY Box got a sub in it, he can spend the 40 or 60 quid it costs for a FTA box since it seems to cost quite a bundle, and if he just got the digibox he can change it easely for a decent reciever, getting all the digibox gets (only more confortable and bar 4+5). So it seems, it...

For 2way satellite internet calculate about 100-120 euros a month for a 256/128 Flatrate. The Problem is NOT the monthly charge (you can pay a bit more and then get 3times the speed and share with 3 people, it gets resonable) but the equipement cost. The v-Sat Terminal and sat-modem/router will...

We where in Guider and Maroua in Camerun (North) and in Paoua,central Africa. This is a few years ago and we could recieve Signals of Hotbird analogue like TV5 and I think also Euronews, there where several others but by today they all moved to digital. I do not know about digital reception...

In Johannisburg Astra 1 ANALOGUE Reception of 6 Transponders is possible with a 7m dish (PRO7,SAT1 and a few others), with 11m also in south america. But its an anomaly of the antenna on the satellite,normally that far out of footprint is a no go. Eutelsat widebeam is relatively easy to get up...

Well,if anything,she is right in every aspect.It is disgraceful what happenend there and still its chaotic today.There seems to be no interest in rebuilding or helping those black/poor neighbourhoods in any way shape or form except for loud speaches when the cameras are on. Its a shame for...

It did not get dark here (north of Barcelona) but a bit like very bright moonlight over the see.Just strange. The temperatur however dropped from already cold 21C to 11C!!!!!!!!! Did get back up to a normal 24C by Midday. Shame, its becoming winter...... Greetings Chris

Did you get a new card? And if, for what satellite? I did not get any and I sell them. No notice yet. Greetings Chris

The cost for sBand LNBs is not very high, its the same you use for the meteosat satellites,so you can see the weather maps live. It looks like a normal LNB with a little yagi in the front. The s-Band however is not large enough to retransmit the entire ku Band. I really doubt that it is...

What about the BBC? World and Prime,also DCTV,CNBC,Euronews..... Greetings Chris

Well,I do not know the BBC report, but I had 2 iPods till now. The first (gen2) lasted in my tests about 12h, so 3-4 days and that means to me,that in that time I got to sleep somehow and normally I can recharge the thing. The iPod I got now (4gen) lasts easy 1 week, but as I said, I'm really...