Recent content by richard74

I am a beginer at this and basically do not have a clue about how to patch. please do not direct be to a link because i could not understand any of the inforamntion in the link. Can somebody please explain every step for me as if i was a retard please.(i will not be offended) hgw to patch I...

i have a techomate 1600ci facing hotbird and can get rai1, rai2, rai3, canale 5, italia 1 but i cannot seem to find LA7 or Rete 4 are they still being transmitted on hotbird? are they known as tele a or canale italia also? (as i get these two) would be grateful for help

is it just a matter of the installer fitting new cables or would he have to put in a new LNB? i mean could it be the lnb he has installed is not compatable with the receiver? receiver is techmate 1600

Llew thanks for the advice i took out the lnb cable and the satellite receiver stayed on without any problems the guy who installed it will now take a look at it to see if it anything tio do with cables Could a problem like this be related to any software/patches that have been downloaded...

forgot to mention..the supplier said something about the lnb shorting? do not really know what he was on about. i dont know if this makes sense to you?

thanks for the your response rolf. I took out the cable linking the receiver to dish/lnb -it looked fine to be so i rescrewed it in. I did not install it so i would not be sure how to check the other side attached to dish/lnb? The guy who did the installation said to be if it was a problem...

i recently puchased a technomate 1600 series receiver The problem i have is that the power keeps on going on and off..sometimes it goes off for a ciuple of seconds and then the channel comes back on and sometimes it goes off and stays off....when this happens i have to turn off the power...

thanks for your suggestions will a motorised dish work for both the european channels and sky digital or will i need to keep my sky mini dish too?

I currently have a standard sky mini dish and sky digibox but would like to receive european channels..what equipment will i need for this? is it possible to keep my sky subscribed channels while at the same time also getting access to european satallite tv? would be grateful for any help or...