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Yes It's a great box but swithching between freesat mode & the non freesat mode is a bit of a pain. Anyway we wanted to to be able to have 4 tuners In one box and to be able to access "other" channels that the freesat box cannot give us.

Yes definately ! Luckily for us most of the channels we watch are on the stronger beams here except for the C5's but even then we have just realised the Irish RTE channels actually also show some of the channel 5 stuff and actually some c4 & bbc programmes so that's a great backup. Then you have...

Hi well many thanks for the comments. In the end I just went ahead and ordered the duo2 and It's all set up now with two feeds from the 2.4m dish for astra 28. and one duo lnb feed for both astra 19.2 & 23.5 So far so good.... I haven't done a side by side test but hopefully there Is not much...

Hi I am thinking of replacing my Humax Foxsat Hdr for a Vu+ Duo 2 box but just a bit worried If It will be as good as my Humax box at fringe reception ? I would like to change to the Vu+ Duo 2 so I can combine all the paid tv I have from astra 19.2 & 23.5 with the freesat. Apparently this...

Reception pretty poor this last week or so. Nothing except the wide beams in the evenings despite re checking my dish ;(

Also they are both on slightly different elevations so one click up/down also appears to get you a better signal !

Yes I was doing just that each night but last night I didn't lose 2e so I left it and have again today received the 2g c5's etc so fingers crossed the signal's are improving. For example to start off I only got c5's and cbs drama but today the bbc 2 hd channel and some others were working.

Getting better ! Now I get c5's bbc 2 hd, cbs drama and a few others from around breakfast to early evening without any dish moving whilst still keeping all the usual channels on 2e. The evenings on 2e are still fading out for the prime time most evenings.

This morning I moved my dish with my positioner one click left or right and then one click up or down (Not sure which as my dish is too far away and I don't have the cables labelled etc) but I am now getting the c5 transponder on 2g. I have had this before with 2e/2f. If you focus on 2e and get...

Well if you are getting any 2g uk beam then you are doing much better than me here in Slovakia (Near Brno) as I am getting nothing 24/7 ;)

I've got 80% Signal, 100% Quality On my Humax on the Euro beam here in Slovakia. Not that I need it ! Would gladly trade it for a sliver of that Uk beam !

Tried to tweak my dish today but still no 2g uk beams possible. I am getting 2e today from about 11:30 am. Lets hope they don't transfer anything from 2e to 2g as if this is the worst it can get I am only really losing the c5's and few others I suppose.

I tried a few of these transponders and I am getting a strong signal so they must not be on the uk beam as indicated but on the europe one. http://en.kingofsat.net/sat-astra2g.php

Well it look's like I will lose the C5 channels on 10964 then. This was about the only transponder that I could receive on 2f so It's not the end of the world I guess ! Shame the C5's are not duplicated on 2e. Will have to watch neighbours and home and away online then.

Well I usually do get all the c5 channels on 10964.00 but today noting. Usually the morning is strong ! Is it fact that the switch has happened ?