Recent content by davjen

Just thought I would let you know as an old contributor to this site, that I still am using my original dish setup, been going since 1993ish. I have serviced it myself, when required and managed to get all motor parts from the different manufacturers, ie Helmut Claus, Premotec etc . I have...

Has anyone had experience with Volex-Radex CT125 cable? I bought some at least 10 years ago but in the end have never used it mainly because it is white? Losses on this heavier cable is supposed to be much less than CT100, I believe.

Interesting topic - I wonder if anyone has come across a Palcom SL- 8000RP analogue receiver. My story goes back to just after I had bought my Pace MSS500IP receiver in September 1995 and installed it with my Fibo dish. I received a letter saying I had won a competition in "What Satellite" for...

Smiffie, thanks for your comments. I believe that Gregorian dishes are supposed to be more efficient than Prime focus, mine is 82percent. Regarding the condition etc, over the course of time I have replaced the bushes on the azimuth mount, luckily I was able to source the exact sizes from RS...

Hi Llew, I didn't go any further with the Echostar problem but still have the receiver which still is operational on the one channel. Currently I use my Topfield as a positioner and then switch over to a Vantage HD6000S. This works OK. I do have plenty of pictures on the Fibo dish and I took...

Have been using this setup since 1995 with a Pace MSS500, Echostar AD3000IP and Topfield 5000CIP, which I still use to drive the 36v motor. Every year I give it a maintenance service. Works like a charm but have a brand new motor etc just in case.

Thanks for that, PaulR - what a pity if there VAT rate is 21%.

Can someone tell me if you buy direct from a supplier in the EU, are you liable for VAT in that country? I checked up on the HMRC site and as far as I can see you don't have to pay it here,but it is not very clear. Anyone with experience on this?

Currently I am using a Topfield SD receiver, movable dish, mainly for RCS -DigiTV viewing and TRex cam. I want to upgrade to an HD receiver and have seen advertised a Vantage HD6000S receiver for £99 plus VAT which sounds very reasonable but am concerned that with the changes happening at...

My latest findings are as follows: On checking VCR Scart terminal 6, I found that there is contact between R603 and Pin 21, but no contact from terminal 6 to R603 - R603 checked out OK. My conclusion is therefore that CE617 maybe open circuit, I will need to remove the board to check this...

I think what I want to do first is to go through all the checks again to make sure that I have done correctly and detail the results etc. and come back once I have them.

Sorry to say, I did check Pin 17 as well and no signal there.

I re-did the checks again after your latest reply and found there was no signal at Pin 21 when running a DVD player, but there was slight audio at Pin 1. Then I checked RH audio at Pin 51 - no problem there or at Pin 63. No problem when switching on DVD player from satellite. So as far as I can...

Did the check on pin 21 and audio was present, however, there was just noise on pin 1 and also on pin 49. I just want to make sure that I followed your instruction correctly. I connected the DVD player to the VCR scart on the Sat Receiver, played a DVD - no further connections made other than...

Just wanted to confirm - on my "Typical Application Circuit" for the chip, it shows that Pin 21, being the Audio in- LH comes from AUX Scart, Pin 6. It looks like Pin 17 is the one from the VCR scart. I am just trying to get my head round this one. So the LH signal to the DVD inputs from AUX...