Recent content by dodecahedron

Will have to do some checking as my contract runs out next month and it seems you need a 12month contract to get it

Thanks for that if thats the case I won't bother. I've got a motorisd set up and can pick up some games from 39East using cw or I may go down the cccam route

I'm a bt broadband customer and was considering getting hold of a sky box and buying a fta viewing card from sky (£25) which you need the number from for access, to get BT sport, but someone I know reckons you can't record sky programs without a paid subscription. Anyone confirm this ? It would...

Hi sat at the PC looking at Lyngsat, I have scanned astra @ 28.2, astra @ 19.2, thor @ 1west and I think it was hotbird @ 13.0 and ended up with a mountain of god knows what. It seems when I press to scan it pulls in everything from that location which is impossible to sort through, I get...

80cm dish , I'm a qualified building surveyor and fully understand weight and wind loadings which is another reason I fabricated a new pole mount for the dish instead of the L bracket to remove point loading and lower the turning moment bringing it much closer to the stack.

Thanks Mickha deleted all channels and reloaded the FTA from astra. I should have watched what it did first time as it seems to scan all TPs some go through OK others flagged as NG (no good?) One last thing the dish is on the chimney stack and the installation manual mentions lightning...

Right guys thanks for all your comments and advice I now have what I think is an operational system, just one question and bear in mind I'm new to this..When I finished aligning the dish on Thor I had a signal of about 75% but no quality so I opened the transponder list and clicked on the next...

Thanks Mickha, I'm happy enough with what to do. My concerns are whether connecting the meter in line kills off another LNB, I can see no reason why it should but something happened last time .

Right guys firstly thanks for all your advice, on monday night got a spare half hour, dragged the ladders back out took the sat meter up top remade all connections connected up set as per instructions moved the motor round the pole dish up and down no change at all. Decided then the LNB was...

Thanks appreciate your comments about the motor angles but double checked this before hauling it up onto the roof also set the dish bracket to around 22 degrees based on 30 - DEC angle of 7.6 (latitude 54.51). One thing not happy with is L bracket which seemed to deflect under the weight it...

Thanks for that, I don't appear to have a signal from any satellite inc astra where I had about 74% according to the on screen menu. Will get back on the roof and recheck all the F connectors if the vertical rain ever stops

Hi, I finally decided to get a motorised satellite system and have a problem. I set everything up according to the blurb that came with it and all the guides available on forums. To set it up I used usals to go to Thor at 1w it showed signal at 53% but quality at 0%. I then went to astra at 28.2...