Recent content by oneill

Yep ... just did ... it worked ... weird though aint it ? Any ideas about the parabolic vs. the off-set dish ?

Ill just try to shut down for a few minutes and see what happens ...

I dont think it is ... see the digibox menues, programlisting etc is all the usual blue and white (Grundig GSD300), its only the actual TV-picture which is green ...

Weird stuff ... my reception has been pixily the last few days, ITV dropping out occasionally for hours at a time. Today when I turned on the telly - all satellite channels have turned green !!!! Seriously - reception appears okay, no pixilation, but everything is shades of green, only satelitte...

Good reception (BBC, ITV etc) in Denmark, near Odense with 120cm parabolic dish (i.e. no off-set), Grundig GDS300 box and AP8-T2 Manhattan MTI LNB (bought from *******). oneill AT c DOT dk

Thanks old Fred ... what exactly is a feedhorn ?? Soren

I have a 1.25 m dish (symmetrical with the LNB held in position by three arms converging from the edge of the dish - i.e. it is not an offset focus dish). Sadly I havent got a bracket for the LNB, so I making one out of an old bicycle tyre, an empty Heinz baked-beans tin and ½ lb of blue-tack...

Im out the door now ... will check back later today ... Soren

Im now demonstrating my lack of knowledge in all things satelitish ... Whats a LNB feed ? The dish has three 'legs' holding the LNB - the old LNB was fixed in a piece of flat metal with the right holes in for fixing the LNB and fixing the metal to the three legs. Ive made a new piece of metal...

...and how about this one, as advocated by S******* http://www.mti.com.tw/LNB_AP8-T.htm Soren

Can no longer receive BBC after the switch to 2D. I have a Grundig gds 300 and just recently changed my dish from 90 to 125 cm (solid) - still no luck aligning it properly and getting none of the horizontal frequezies or BBC channels. Im now thinking about getting a new LNB (current one is a...