Recent content by radiobuff

Hello Robbo, Glad you found this useful. I wonder what the problem is with the batteries fitted by the manufacturer! I have seen several other forum reports also relating to duff batteries. Yes, that is the right holder in your photograph. You will also need the small battery adapter to fit...

I bought a new Lacuna (Wolsey) Mk4 satellite meter on eBay about a year ago and have had problems finding updates for the firmware and also problems with the batteries. I thought my experience with it may be of help to others. The firmware can be updated using a USB cable, but the updates are...

You will find it on 11.426H/27500. It is labelled as 10510 and not ITV at the moment. They are not yet up and running properly and only show a caption saying the channel is not yet available most of the time.

Hi Ciaran, getting around 75% picture quality here in Belfast using an 85cm dish for the Supersport channels on 16E. If you are using a 1m dish and not getting it, there must be something wrong. Worth checking your setup!

I would agree that the TM6900 is a better receiver. I had a Passion for a few months, but although the picture was good, it often had software hang-ups and problems with cams. It may have improved since then. For anyone considering a TM6900, though, I had an email from one of the suppliers...

Just for the record, I bought a new Lacuna meter recently on eBay and after charging for the first time, it only operated for about 20min. I could have assumed it had a duff battery, but after about 10 charge/discharge cycles, it now operates for over 3 hours which is up to spec.

Hello flashgordon, The TM6900 is a lovely receiver. The software upgrade cured my earlier problems. I upgraded it using a null modem cable and it worked fine. Be careful with the type of HDD you use for recordings. The TM6900 doesn't seem to like Seagate drives but Maxtor and Western Digital...

I had the same problem with BBC HD at one time. Re-scanning for it doesn't help. I discovered the receiver wasn't recognizing it as an HD channel. Copy your channel list from your receiver on to a USB memory stick, then delete the ProSieben HD channel on the receiver. Take the memory stick to...

I have recently upgraded my receiver to a Technomate TM6900 with HD PVR facilities. I can record BBC HD and Premier HD on to a HDD and play it back with no problems. HD Suisse is different, however, in that it sounds fine live, but when recorded and played back, the picture is first class but...

I bought a B grade Passion from Maplin a couple of months back and it works perfectly. This is the 3rd B grade item I have bought from them and am perfectly happy with all of them. I previously had a Pace HD receiver and sold it because of the problems with some cams due to poor software support...

What is the best cam to use with the Passion? Will a T-Rex or Dragon work ok? I just bought a B grade from Maplin and it appears to be working fine with the FTA channels.:-santa3