Recent content by Penners

OK, thanks once again PaulR. I think we've now reached the point where my son has been given as much theoretical information as is available, and he'll have to 'suck it and see' for the rest of the job. I note your comments about the roof overhang and the direction of the dish, and I'll pass...

Well, that's embarrassing! I could have sworn that my son's dish was a horizontal oval! However, he's now sent me a picture, and here it is: Does that look realistic for receiving in his location?

OK, thanks again BB. My son is home tomorrow so I hope to get his dish data (if he remembers!).

Many thanks Burnham Beech. Your comments about reception are very encouraging. Is your old dish the same horizontal oval shape as my son's? He is going to need a new LNB anyway, to give the necessary two feeds for his Humax HDR. The currently fitted LNB is just a single. Fortunately the...

Thanks very much st1. I'll pass that on to my son, as soon as he's home. I hope also to post a picture and dimensions of his dish for PaulR.

No, the previous owners were French... and quite elderly. So I'm fairly sure that they would have watched French TV. The area is very mountainous, so I suspect that satellite is a widely-used way of receiving TV there. I'll see whether I can get dimensions/photo of the dish. This may take a...

Thanks very much for that information, PaulR. My son already has a dish on his house (left by previous occupants). It's oval shaped - a fair bit wider than its height. Which dimension should he measure to see whether it's 70 - 80 cm? I didn't know about the Freesat satellite change later...

My son lives in France, about half an hour south-east of Geneva (French postcode 74250). He would like to receive UK TV on a Humax Foxsat HDR. I'd be very grateful for any advice on the following, please:- 1. Which satellite will give him the best signal? 2. What size/type of dish will he...

In case anyone is interested, I've discovered a sort of "work-around" solution to this problem. In the Freeview box main menu I selected Configuration. One of the settings listed showed that I was using the Teletext electronic programme guide - but there are others. I've discovered that the...

OK, thanks to you both. I think you're probably right that I need to buy new boxes. But it'll have to wait until after Christmas, given the cost of everything else at this time of year! I'm very grateful for your advice.

2cvbloke - thanks for your continued help. We do have wi-fi, DECT phones and low energy lamps in the house, but none of these has been changed or moved for months. I can't think of any "electronic" event in the house that in any way coincides with the start of this Freeview EPG problem. The...

Well, having tried a first-time installation several times in the last couple of days, I tried a full reboot of the box, last night. After the reboot, I got the usual update of the programme guide (which takes several minutes). Once that EPG update had completed, I found that pressing the Menu...

OK, well I'll certainly try your reboot idea tonight. Many thanks.

Thanks for your reply 2cvbloke. Do you think it's feasible that the boxes coped with the new standards for a couple of weeks, but then fell over? Or has something else about the EPG transmission been modified in the last few days?

I posted a questions about problems with our Freeview boxes, a couple of weeks ago. Mostly they seem to have been associated with the digital switchover which took place in our area (Tacolneston transmitter) on the 23rd November, and these have now settled down. But suddenly, for the last...