Recent content by Les Holmans

Thanks for your reply. The independent viewing option got me thinking and I decided to directly connect the second cable from the dish to the cable running from the living room to the bedroom. I will now start looking for a freesat receiver to attach to this cable. Thanks again. Les

I have recently moved house and the new abode has a quad LNB with two cables running from it into the living room and a further cable running from the living room into a bedroom. My old setup was a dish with a single LNB connected to an ordinary Sky box. If I purchased a Sky+ box and connected...

I have had a bit more time to try and solve this recently. The motor will turn the arm to the East either by STB or direct motor control but when I try to turn the arm back to the West the sound is like a flat battery in a car and after a couple of minor movements the light goes from green to...

Thanks for your time Rolf. I try the process one more time and if it does'nt work perhaps it is time to think about a new system. Les

Happy New Year Rolf and to all others. The location on my STB is 51N and 2.6E Les

My motorised dish started playing up a couple of days ago. It had moved to the far extremity East and would not budge. I did a factory reset of the STB to see if this would solve the problem but it did not. I looked up a couple of archive documents on your site that gave some clues as to what...

Came back to the forum after a few days break. It seems things got a bit feisty for awhile but thanks everybody it seems I have got my answer.

Thanks for reply

I am contemplating taking up a Sky subscription. Is there a Satellite Receiver on the market that can be used to view Sky using an official sky subscription card that can also be used to view channels from other satellites with a motorised dish? I don't want the clutter of having a Fortec + a...

Thanks for the replies and the pictures. I will get a scaffold pole + extras as suggested. Les

Thanks Rolf for the information. I will have to have a rethink. If I chose a 90cm aluminium dish could I use the pole and have the dish at a slightly lower level or is it that the pole is too thin at any height for the motor and dish. Les

I currently have a Fortec 65cm Dish on a Metronic motor mounted on a 5cm diameter pole with the bottom of the dish about 4.5 feet above the ground. To stop getting hassle from my other half I have agreed to raise the dish so that the bottom of the dish is not lower than 7 feet and I have bought...

Good news. Firstly I must apologise to the installing engineer for my misgivings. He came round to offer a loan of his receiver until my problem was fixed. However, the problem was due to old software within the receiver and now I have exchanged the Lifetime Classic for a Lifetime Diamond and...

I am not sure that I can just go to a DiseqC1.2 menu and do a manual search on the Fortec Lifetime Classic. I have to go into Installation, Antenna Setup, choose a satellite, change the dish from fixed to motor and then get a Positioner DiseqC screen. This is the one that does not respond until...

I have altered my dish to latitude 51 for my location and adjusted the dish's angle to get a good signal on Thor. From there I got a good signal for Hotbird too. However, if I want to move the dish for Astra 2D I have to disconnect the LNB cable from the motor, reset the dish to 0 and move to...