Recent content by PopDorset

Right you are! I understand, thanks!!

OK...being a beginner, I thought it meant a hardware patch, like a wire or connector. Thanks for that. I notice that some people on eBay are advertising "ready patched". Is this something to be avoided then? Am I best off leaving well alone? Sorry for all the questions. Pop

Wod, it allows a little tuning of the skew of the lnb, but it's a rather haphazard guessing game, and there's no lock arrangement: just some wobbly detents which you click over, if that makes sense... Pop

Wod, I'm happy to upgrade the dish...I was appalled to see the dish start to deteriorate...ie rust! after just three months. The only snag is I have to hide my dish so you can't see it from the road...I'm in a conservation area. I can rotate the dish, but only have about 45deg of rotation...

Yup, I was kind of expecting you to say that!!! If I sell the SkyBox, and buy say, a Technomate 1000D, would it be a) easy to set up/use, B) compatible with the existing Sky dish or would I be better off selling both receivers & upgrading the whole damn lot? btw, thanks for your reply! Pop

Hi, I have FreeSat from Sky. Bought Nov 06, works fine...don't wish to change it...yet! I set my mum up with the same gear/deal at the same time, but she is elderly and cannot fathom out the menus, so I now have her gear. I decided to use this to try to get French tv here at my house as a...