Recent content by Hedley

Hi Dennis, You have two main options:- A 1.2m dish will get you most of the Sky channels with a suitable subscription card plus free to air channels like channel 5 BBC news but you will not get BBC1 BBC2 or Channel 4 unless you subscribe to HD and then you could get channel 4 HD. With this...

Hi Fringe, You are correct I meant quality. I think your readings are mis-leading as I suspect your box does what Sky boxes do when you check signal strength and quality and default to test a north beam signal hence the flattering numbers. The best sky box for fringe areas is definitely a pace...

Hi Fringe, I have had the same problem. I have had a 3m dish for 5 years now, three of them!. The first one, a metal one, lost the signal totally for 20 mins. each day at approx. 21:30 in late October and also in March. Now I have a fibreglass dish and a Grundig quad LNB and the reception is...

Just tested a Humax HD Freesat box in direct comparison with sky pace 2600c1 box. Reception is almost identical. However I cannot receive BBC HD probably due to being so far south. I am hooked up to a 3.1m dish and Invacom quad LNB. BBC1 and ITV1 coming through perefectly.

Unfortunately no satellite signal is received on 10847V so it looks like SD TV for me. Horizontal channels, for some reason, are received easier than vertical ones on my set up.

Thanks for the info. RD100. It's a Bush for me if I get one. I live in the Canary Islands and I am wondering if a Freesat box connected to my 3.1m dish will open up any additional channels to the ones I currently get on my Pace 2600c1. Down here I get some BBC and ITV regions, but not all, but...

I think I have found the answer to my problem? Firstly I do not think my dish was optimised so any drop in signal strength pushed me over the edge. I picked up on another thread a great explanation of satellite signal strength, check out www.celestrak.com/columns/v04n09. Dish now removed...

I got the 3.1m dish from Freesat, fully fitted under €3000. They have fitted several of these dishes here on Fuerte aswell as Lanzarote and my dish, typical, is the only one which seems to have this 20 minute loss off BBC1 at 22:40. I am optimistic it can be ironed out though!!!. If you would...

Thanks Snap & Topper, I hope you are both correct, it sounds very logical. Yes the probelm occurred last week at 21:40 to 22:00 and now it is 22:40 to 23:00 as the hour has gone forward. The installation is new, only 6 weeks old, and there has been a very steep learning curve!! plus I have no...

Hi Rolfw, Thanks for the information but it has lost me a little. I have checked out the web-site but cannot seem to find Sky Digital only a reference to TDAB satellite audio broadcast. However one of the channel that disappears, at exactly 22:40 BST, for 20 minutes each evening, is BBC1 Wales...

Help! I am not sleeping as I am totally puzzled by reception problems from Astra 2d. I live in Corralejo, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands and have a recently installed 3.1m tecatel dish, a C120 Invacom quad LNB and Invacom feedhorn, with a Pace 2000C1 receiver. I get perfect reception on BBC1...