Recent content by john_m

It depends on the state and age of the cable, try it and see.

I have a raven 70cm dish, motorised, and I cant get 16e either on USALS, as was said you need to fine tune until the best signal is achieved, even then its not perfect.

Thanks for that and by the way nice setup seen the pics, this hobby is addictive!.

Reminds me of the good old days of d2mac where the canal+ channels at 1deg west would change codes sometimes 3 times a day

I have a Freesat HD box looped through Phoenix Apollo and it works fine, although you have to remember to point the dish at 28e!.

Does anyone remember the MS NBC ntsc broadcasts from about 5 years ago on 12 or 15w ?

Hi All, I have recently purchased (from a company in the uk) a Canal Digitaal smartcard with the family pack and I am having some problems trying to get the card to work, aparently the card has been authorised but all I seem to get is the message "Video Scrambled check your rights" does anyone...

I've upgraded my box to an openbox (thanks Kip) and its a lot better than the Apollo firmware. Pobedit really makes things so easy and it opens more channels too.:-thumbup

Hi Could anyone tell me what additional channels would open if I convert my apollo to an openbox is it worth doing ? I've certainly got enough to be going on with (and thanks once again) but you can never have too many !.

Has anyone noticed the boxes tendancy to lock up if you are flicking through channels fast in TPS (i have since organised them into one group - seems better). Had to power my box down to recover, it then thought it was on Astra-1 even though the dish is pointed at hotbird!.

Had to enter keys manually for polsat and d+ but now working.

Well I recieved the cable today updated and everything is working, certainly TPS (left it on France 4 for a minute or so) and Premiere, going to try Polsat now. Thanks everyone for your help.

Got hold of key updater now so just waiting for the null modem cable to arrive.

I've just read another thread on usb to serial adapters and you do need a null modem cable as well you cant just plug the adapter into the back of the apollo (doh!) and I work in I.T too!!.

Thanks again mate, I will go out and buy a null modem cable tomorrow.