Recent content by hightower

Well thats everything sorted!! Changed the LNB over to a quad, ran in all the new cables and set up the recievers. Tested it last night with the FTA channels and both boxes, everything looks good :) Called up sky yesterday, and managed to wangle 4 months half price from them even though they...

cheers for the advice! how much does it cost to activate the card for sky+?

thanks mate :)

Wonder if any of you could help... At the moment i have NTL full tv package and my own motorized satellite system in my house for picking UP fta European channels. Set up the motorized system myself last year with no problems at all. Recently a friend came across a pace V2 sky+ box which he...

Im picking up "info dla abonentow" on 12.360 (H) / 27.500 on hotbird. At the moment there is something called TV Market showing. I have a patched technomate 1500. Can someone confirm this is polsat info? ta

For 16 your doing very well mate :D and nice pics!!

Try the installation yourself if you feel up to it, the satasfaction at the end is brilliant!! Im lucky as the back of my house faces south, though my next door neighbour has an extension, so i couldn't wall mount it as i was missing most of the east. We have a dorma window so i mounted it on...

I went for the technomate 1500CI reciever mate, had no problems with it plus its very good for the money! About £120..read the reviews about it! Also have an 80cm dish, though its high on the roof with a Manhattan HH120 motor, only just set it up and so far looking good!

Can't thank you enough mate! Done exactly that and its finding everything now, woohoo :) ahh well didn't take me as long as i thought it would, but thats down to this forum and the members!!

Set my motor back to 0, and tried to look for 5W, i cant find it anywhere! The only west sat i can find is 1W and can find all the east sats. Im guessing my dish is off? The motor latitude is set to 56 as its the latitude of glasgow. There was no dish elevation givin by the manufacturer in...

thanks mate, ill go back up on the roof now, and report back with my findings :D

Hi tech, Im just round the corner from you in cathcart! Well newlands but same thing, Im just in the proccess of my install, everything set up, just having a few problems, which ive started a new thread about :D So far so good with the 80cm dish, well on the east side anyway!!

Well not quite :-DOH! Everything is working fine on the east sats, but when its going west its picking up 1W ok but when it spins round to the others theres nothing!! Got a clear view with no instructions...Help anyone?? Thanks in advance!

cheers mate :)

I have just recently bought - Technomate 1500CI - £110 80cm dish with 0.2LNB - £49.99 Moteck 2100a Motor - £38.99 Sat meter - £10 And cables ect dont cost much! Patched my reciever the other day, and planning to set up tomorrow! Took me a couple of weeks of looking around and im happy so far...