Recent content by IanMWard

Thanks Snap, I was kind of waiting for you to reply :-) Where would be the best plase to get the LNB and feed horn here in Madrid? Also, roughly how much are we talking about? As for realigning the dish and skew, I don't have a signal meter, so I guess I need the help of someone who does. How...

Hi, here are some photos that I took this morning... One thing I noticed that I had forgotten about is that to make the dish fit on the stand, I had to put some shims in because the stand pole is too narrow. I guess that this might mean that the dish is not 100% vertical. How much could this...

iceman, you say that the Sky HD box is a sky + with HDMI output, do you mean that if I buy an HD box and don't have an HD subscription, it will still work as a Sky + box SD with HDMI output? I've heard it said that the Thomson HD box has a very good tuner for fringe areas and if it's HDMI too...

Would I need to change the LNB then? or can I fit the feed horn as well? Also how much would it cost and where would I buy? Thanks, Ian

Thanks for the welcome, I'll take some photos tonight. The LNB I have has a built in feed horn, would it be much better with an adjustable one? Ian

Hi, I live in Torrelodones about 30km northwest of Madrid and have had my 1.2m ChannelMaster dish up and working for several years, using an Invacom 0,3 Universal LNB and a Panasonic TU-DSB20 (I think) original Sky box. I am able to recieve all channels except the 2d (BBC etc.) 24x7. BBC etc. ¡s...