Recent content by Mike Richards

In an earlier posting Tivu said "Your Sky Box may be faulty of course - failing to lock could be symptomatic of incipient Power Supply Smoothing Capacitor failure: What Make/Model is it? For partly degraded Capacitors of the ilk, it is not uncommon for the Box to recover from an apparent...

I thought that the forum might like to hear about my recent disaster with my Magicsat system and, I hope, learn from my mistakes (!) Due to the odd way in which our dish is wired we recently managed to set off down an autobahn with the dish still vertical and facing into the direction of our...

Hi Boatahome - I read your last posting about tuning the Teleco box with great interest. I would love to say that I understood it well enough to follow your example but I don't. To save boring all those that did follow your suggestion is it possible for us to have an offline exchange of email...

Hello everyone - here's the latest installment of my Magicsat woes - in this case my though it's really good news! In desperation (especially as I had read of other users probelems with supprit from Scan Terrieur) I emailed them. To my utter astonishment and delight they replied very promptly...

Magicsat users - forget all I said in my last post - this equipment is a load of rubbish! (I would have been a lot stronger but probably would have been moderated of the forum). Having enjoyed access to the tv last, we cannot today. Nothing has changed, we have not moved and inch and the piece...

Hi to everyone on the forum. For those of you struggling toget your MagicSat to work you may take some encouragement from our recentproblems. I am writing this in early April 2012 and we are in Holland in ourmotorhome. The previous September I had used Boatahome’s splendid guide to thesatellite...

Hi HeliDave - thanks for your work on this. Been away for amonth so excuse my late response. Dave - please excuse my ignorance of this subject but can you please confirm whether or not these settings work ONLY in the UK? And secondly, your criteria reset instructions give you access to all the...

Can I just say a HUGE THANK YOU to PGB in France. You have just saved me £800! We have struggled with our Magicsat ever since it was installed. I was so fed up with it that I had seriously considered taking the professional's advice and spending another £800 to have the system upgraded to the...