Recent content by dermottester

Thank you. The dish is a 60 cm. We are about 60 Km NE of Firenze at N 44 10 E 12 0. The footprint maps say it should be ok. I do get a lot of channels, are all these actually on Eurobird? The signal strength at scan time is 75%, after scanning strength and quality are 100% (meaningless...

The weather relented, I realigned my dish, I now get Freesat, but... The initial scan does not get all the channels. For Ch 101 to 120 I only get 110 (Alba) and 120 (Wales). After 30 min the EPG includes the missing channels, when selected I get "New Service Please Wait" then after 10 seconds...

Thank You. When the snow clears from my roof I will get up there to (try to) realign the parabola. This does not explain why my freesat box does not show the first (according to the doco) screen which should give signal strength, but goes direct to the postcode screen.

Thank you Snap, My FTA box allows me to select the satellite (e.g. Astra 2) then it scans (or seems to scan) in the channels, yes there are lots of duplicates. I have 1 LNB because I wanted to ensure Freesat works before upgrading everything else. I completely disconnect the FTA then use the...

Thank you. Because the set does not initialize I do not get any sw updates If we assume that the problem is with the default transponder then there are 2 questions: How do I change the default? (there is no obvious menu item to do this) What do I change it to? :confused:

Thank you. The Grundig box is a GUFSAT01SD, I bought it at Argus on 11 Nov. I do not know how to check FTA on the freesat box. AS far as I can see it only handles the encrypted Freesat services.

The fta receiver is not SKY. I bought the dish and receiver locally, the brand is telesys, though I do not know its actual origin. I use it for the channels on hotbird, including RAI because my terrestrial reception is hopeless. I will check the default transponder (If I can sort out how to do...

I have a basic fta receiver, single LNB, dish etc. All works ok including Astra 2 at 28° and eurobird. Bought a grundig SD freesat receiver, unplugged the fta, plugged the coax into the grundig and ... it does not work. The initialisation screen does not appear, it does not download the sw...