Recent content by mbahundra

Thanks for that, I should have guessed. Why they should make it so difficult to pick up something that's free is somewhat baffling. At least SECAM is over.

I have a Philex box (28207RF) with a card slot in the front. Can I insert a card and use this to pick up the French channels (either Fransat or TNT)? I'm currently only getting the handful of free channels on AB3 (5W). I ask because 1. there's no mention of a card reader in the manual and 2...

Hmm, that's not what Maplin say about it - "both receivers can watch different channels but they will be on the same polarization". Are they misleading customers by not specifically saying "at the same time" - if I were buying it, I would certainly assume that you could watch both boxes, and...

This is really an academic question now since French analogue is on its way out, but I wanted to split the signal from my lnb to an analogue box in the kitchen and a digital one in the sitting room. I asked Maplin if this - =http://www.maplin.co.uk/2-way-satellite-splitter-9273 - would do it and...

Hi All, Sorry, back on this (I was away for a while), I've had no joy and am thinking of calling in the professionals - in fact I did - and they tell me that there are no longer any analogue broadcasts from AB3. As I understand from Analoguesat, this is not correct - can you confirm? I'm...

Thanks both. Had a wiggle of the dish and LNB and that doesn't seem to make much difference. Wet - possibly, I have a (well-wrapped) joint in the cable, but water could get in. I'll unwrap it and have a look.

I have a AN1000 receiver which was picking up French analogue signals from Atlantic Bird 3 until about a week ago. Now nothing whatsover. Working backwards (from me) the TV's fine, the cable's fine and the box is fine. I switched boxes and plugged in a Fortec Star Beta, scanned the satellite...

Yeah, my wife's French, too. The things we do...

I don't have a dish at all at the moment, so I'll just get a cheapie from Argos eg _http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5220081/c_1/1|category_root|Home+entertainment+and+sat+nav|14419512/Trail/searchtext%3ESATELLITE.htm and an LNB...

Well, that's what I thought, but you don't like to argue with a man with tools... And since we were about to move anyway. Is there anything else I need to know? I've got a receiver (bottom of the range Fortec Star), will a similar dish and LNB do the job? Thanks.

Spotted this thread and jumping in - I wanted to point my (sky) dish at Atlantic Bird 3 last year but it was frustratingly just around the corner of my house. I was about to go out and buy a longer pole to get the dish up over the roof line when a satellite installer turned up to fit a dish for...

Well, of course, scaffolding. I knew that, I just wanted to see if anyone else would think of it. :)

Hello, new user here, this is a very basic request, I've just moved into a new house and there's a dish on the wall pointing at Astra 2 and I'd like to point it at Atlantic Bird 3. Now, it's set on the wall and the house is aligned in such a way (ie the house wall runs about N-S and AB3 is at...