Recent content by George T

Lazarus, Thanks for the replies. Getting out on the projecting porch roof will take a while - I don't get on with heights anymore (any heights). I have had to re-align once before, about 2 years ago, after very high winds (the dish is a solid one, unlike the current Sky ones), so may not have...

Sorry, the other satellite I'm getting signal strength from is 23.5E (Astra 1) - nothing on 19.2. The non-motorized dish (an older larger format one) and single LNB came in a FortecStar package bought from Maplins a number of years ago. I set the dish up whilst perched outside on the porch...

After the initial set-up and factory reset, I've only been tuning the channels off Astra 28.2E - the Fortec Star dish can, however, also pick up good strength signals from the 19.2E satellite as well. I didn't try watching the German ones that were there initially. Do I need to manually tune the...

Hi, when I first installed this box, it did tune in the UK HD channels, but it also put in a load of German standard ones on the lowest programme numbers. So, after a bit of Factory Resetting and retuning (a number of attempts), I now don't have the German stations, but I also can't get back the...

Hello Baldemedia, I downloaded and installed this program. As it does not have any valid certificates and isn't a Microsoft Product, I decided to uninstall it without using it. Just cannot be too careful these days, even though no virus was detected within the software, it could be an...

Thanks Blademedia, but I had already been there and the only manual they have is for the 8540 - remote control buttons have different labels. Also thanks to Analoguesat for the Google Translate idea. I was already about to do this when I decided to ask the question on here first. The original...

I had to give up on getting any s/w updates on my Fortec Star Passion HD+ box - looks like they have dropped support for it. So I bought a Xoro 8660 from Conrad Electronic. Unfortunately, what they didn't state on the website was that the unit is for the German home market. No UK 3-pin plug...