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Channel Hopper - I'll dig out the manual from the roof tomorrow & see if the (pigeon) English document makes any mention of nudge buttons or anything - certainly haven't seen any mention from memory. It certainly feels like this thing has a mind of it's own & must be moving. Thanks again!!

mhku - it's doing it on a nice day like today's been with little/no wind at all, so not that Channel Hopper - I noticed that the H-H motor has a little play when I was tweaking it earlier, probably a degree or so sounds right. I've even got to a stage where I tell the receiver it's...

Well I played around with it at 1W & now have 96% & 70% on Hotbird, but still keeps dropping to 0% for half a second & is still causing freezing - any bright ideas on how such a good signal (relatively) could be dropping to zero??

Will do that tomorrow, when there's some daylight. Thanks for the suggestions.

Hi Gameboy Thanks for the reply the dish was set up by a prof installer about a year ago, but has got worse over the last couple of months. Can get 28E but haven't tried the others since I got the Homecast. The type of motor is one of those chunky H-H diseq ones I think - sure I'll be on the...

I've got a motorised sat system - 1metre Viking dish, Invacom 0.3db lnb & Homecast PVR. The Homecast has a signal strength meter that seems to give a strength for the satellite & one for the channel (I'm guessing as the manual ignores this!!!). My problem is that on Hotbird I'm getting 92% on...