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Hi folks, A bit of shameless self-promotion on my part....:cool: Please could you lend me your vote in the Radio Cardiff Awards 2010? I've been nominated in the Best Factual/Feature Programme category for my Tuesday Night Sports Phone In. We're on every Tuesday at 7pm on 98.7FM and online...

Cheers for your reply. The dish face is vertical now and the lnb is set at 6 o'clock. Is it possible because it's an old analogue dish that it was originally pointed at 19.2? The bracket on the wall prevents me from turning it any further east....could this be the problem?

So is the signal meter just a red herring? We are tearing our hair out here!!! We are using an old sky dish and I've made sure the arm is parallel with the ground. My lidl sat meter is screaming away, but still no luck. Very annoying...

How can we boost our quality bar? We have a reading of 78% signal strength, but even when we twist the lnb we can't get a quality of more than 16%. Please can someone suggest a solution? Many thanks.

I'm having another go at this today. Still having major problems pointing the dish however. We have a lidl sat meter attached, but still there's no life. We also appear to have matched the angle as shown on dishpointer. Please can someone lend a hand? Cheers.

Would it be worth plugging my mate's Fortec Star box into my Sky connection to test it?

OK. I really appreciate all your advice. We've given up now and will start again on Saturday - mate will have to make do with 4 analogue channels until then! I'll do some more research - I just find it odd that whatever angle we pointed the thing at nothing seemed to change. Would it be...

I have an old Lidl Sat meter - that should do the job? I'll probably try again at the weekend, but I'm so gutted I can't make it go! The dish is now angled virtually vertical. Should I aim to get the arm horizontal?

Using box's meter. Thed dish is an old analogue jobby. I'm right to be on the 'Antenna Config' menu? LNB Freq UNI - DIseqc OFF - 0/12V switch OFF - all correct

OK. The dish is vertical. We've also skewed the LNB to match the thread picture. We still read only 15% quality however. No matter how much shifting we do there seems to be no change. Any more ideas?

Hi everyone. I'm helping a mate set up his freesat, he has a Fortec Star Lifetime Ultra box, FS LNB and new cable. We are using an old Sky dish (was once analogue so It's a big one). We've got 50% signal strength, but we can't seem to get better Quality. We've checked on dishpointer, skewed...

Hi. Does anyone know if the 6900 wll work with the Portuguese MEO Nagra card? I like my MEO box, but it has no diseqc and I've lost all the other sats.:)

Hi. I've taken it out and put it in again as advised over the phone. I'll sit tight for a couple more days and see what happens. Many thanks for your advice. Much appreciated.:)

When we first activated the box a new software download installed itself. We waited for many hours (overnight in fact) as advised by the 'customer service' people with the box on. Still nothing has happened. They even advised switching it off, reconnecting cables, resetting the box etc...

When you say the registration process do you mean when the box is switched on, or when I purchased it from PT? I bought the box on 31st July, but I did not manage to connect it to Hispasat until yesterday. I can receive the FTA channels (TVMonde, Record TV, TV Galicia etc) but no RTP, TVi or SIC.