Recent content by montaigne

Got it! I used a satellite finder to start with and then used the signal monitor on screen. Skew made a big difference. Thanks for the help.

Thanks, I checked the site and it looks like I might just be in range. I have a Triax 2000 which I think does 8k. Anyway I'm going to give it a try at Easter, I'll post the results here.

Digital Terrestrial Television is about to be launched in France. Does anyone know if I can use my UK box over there?

I thought it was the LNB so I've got an MTI 0.6 db Universal. Thanks for the suggestion though.

I tried to align the dish on Friday. I tried sweeping an arc from South to East and using a meter. The meter was getting power from the cable. I got nothing on either the digibox or the meter. Still stumped.

We're in the middle; half-way between Limoges and Angouleme. I've looked at satelliteforcaravans and what concerned me was the bit about not getting any signal strength at all.

Thanks, any advice on meters?

Our house in France has a satellite that the previous left. I bought a second-hand Amstrad DRX 400 from ebay pointed the dish (75cm) in the general direction and powered up. All I can get is "No satellite signal is being received". I've replaced the LNB and tried a different cable with the same...

Being a complete newbie, if North is 0 degrees what direction is 28.2E?

We have a house in France, The previous owner (French) left the dish and cables. The dish appears to be pointing s/sse, can anybody guess what it's pointing at? What I'd like to do is be able to recieve BBC radio from a satellite when we're in France. What would we need? Thanks.