Recent content by fmak

Can a Sky+ box with freview and no telephone connection be used to record one channel and watch another?:):):)

Here in Cyprus we have largish dishes and big thunderstorms. Why are dishes not separately bonded to earth for safety?:)

At 9.00 pm tonight Feb14 Channel 5 suddenly came up with a request for a PIn No. What is this as I just have a Freeview Card. This has happened on 2 boxes.:-Nooo

I need to source a manual lnb switch to connect two boxes to one downlead. Also a tv aerial/lnb feed combiner - decombiner set fro another lnb feed. Are there shops in Limasol that sell these and please give name and directions. Fforget Paphos, I have gotten nowhere.:) :) :)

For the last few evenings Channel 4 has been breaking up or non existent with Pace 2600C1 2.7m DH dish and Invacom lnb. All other channels have been fine. Is this a Channel 4 issue, or something else? I have been contemplating a 3m DH dish. Anyone with experinece of upgrading in the area? I...

There is something wrong with the Quote and Reply function to replies on this and I can only respond here. I have no problem with reception using a C2600. However, I want to use my Sony VTX760 for digital radio as the C2600 sound sucks; and this drops out at 7-9pm. The new feedhorn can...

I have bought one of the 'new' Invacom feedhorns to replace the existing one on the quad lnb. Can I please have some help on how to fit this, including the important parameters to set?:)

There is an offer to upgrade from a 2.8m dish to 3m for the price difference (£250). Apparently this pushes signal strength from 60-70% to 90%. For me, this may solve any problems with misalignment and gurantees radio from the spdif output of my sluggish Sony. The only questions are; 1. Will...

Found out why; there was a spider in the cavity of tyhe feedhorn. Strange thing is, the spider seemed to keep good time by comin out by 9 pm every night and I got my lost channels back!

I lost all channels except for Ch5 and BBC R2 and 3 this morning. Ch4 came back in the afternoon but still BBC1/2 and ITV plus R5 are not there. Anyone in Cyprus has the problem. This occurs on two separate LNB feeds to different tuners.:P

Suggest you try another remote. sky remotes are very prone to malfunction. I have had 2 that went dead within the last few months!!

----------------------------------------------------------------------- That is the point; the Pace 430 sounds aweful; the Pace 2600 better when connected to a hifi system. But taking the output from the dac or digital from the router/MPEG chip improves quality a lot. However, the only way of...

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Why not; it's the only way I have of checking my plasma and the quality of the audio output - much of it is very poor until you mess around with the dac inside.:cool:

Is it possible to get the sky or any other good quality test card in Cyprus? I'd like an audio test tone as well.:)