Recent content by joneshomebody

I've recently set up my 300 and the figures quoted are what I had out of the box- background at about 40% and quality around 4 or 5% connected to LNB. Skew and positioning should be right on an existing working dish so it may well be a fault with the box, unless the Sky signal is low quality in...

Skew worked for me too, once I persuaded the box that Astra1 and Astra 2 weren' in the same location, I'm getting similar numbers and have all the fta english language channels. So thanks from me too. xx:-DOH!

Everything seems to be working fine now but I am getting greedy. As an ashamed non-nerd there is a lot about patching and card sharing that I do not understand. I used to be able to "update" my technomate via files from satdownloads-now apparently defunct. I hope to find a way to do the same for...

Thanks for the responses. The box has so far has had no trouble powering the motor and the dish does move as it should, albeit slowly. I have now managed to persuade the box that Astra 1 and Astra 2 are not the same satellite, there was an uncanny similarity between the scanned channels which...

Hi Guys n Gals Just got a screwfix kit, as it has been sometime since I had a receiver, my technomate blew up or at least fizzed and stopped working a while ago. I thought "Great, an HD box for £50" However it won't motor across to Thor and will only show four sats Astra 1, Astra2, Eurobird and...