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    Advice needed as I want to change my receiver

    So mine would be a reasonably well misaligned dish? Remember this is all new to me...
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    Advice needed as I want to change my receiver

    Good point but my signal level on 19.2 is 68% and my signal quality is 83% which seems pretty reasonable. What do you think? I'll look into your other points anon. Thanks
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    For Echostar 3000 users

    I agree. This is early days for me though. Don't forget I also have the original sky dish at 19E which my new (yippee) toy is presently plugged into. There was a monster 50 inch dish for sale on ebay yesterday - unsold at end of auction at £20, but it was down South. I don't know enough yet to...
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    For Echostar 3000 users

    Thanks for the welcome Llew
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    Advice needed as I want to change my receiver

    Thanks Gents, I'm not put off! My new toy came today so I'm having a play right now as the footie is boring. It seems fairly straightforward at the moment. I've got it on 19.2 and pulled down lots of channels. As an experiment I did a search on 16E with my dish still pointing to 19E (its the...
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    For Echostar 3000 users

    I know it was you really...and you know that I know... that you know...ad infinitum... Once again thank you for the help. Hopefully the Echostar comes tomorrow...
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    For Echostar 3000 users

    I don't know who runs the www.analoguesat.co.uk! site, but the clues are there and if it wasn't for the guy who does run it I'd now be getting on with other stuff (but less interesting!) I agree with needing the switch. Quick question - should I be able to get the 16E and / or 13E signals using...
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    Advice needed as I want to change my receiver

    I'm a newbie and I have just bought an Echostar 3000IPVA which has not even been delivered yet. I bought it based on the great reviews it has. Now I'm confused? What do you mean by slow and painful?
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    For Echostar 3000 users

    Hi, Sounds like a great idea to me. Let me explain. All I had two weeks ago was 2 separate Sky systems until one of my dishes blew down. (the bracket had literally rusted away). To find a new bracket I visited a few websites including Ebay (and one in Selkirk which specialises in analogue...
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