Recent content by safesurfer65

Cheers guys for the good response. Never realised I could get it for free, that is interesting. Definately food for thought. Many thanks. mal

Hi all Currently I have a motorised 1.2m dia. dish that I had installed a few years ago when I first got into satellite tv. It has 1 cable running out of it going into a HD freesat and a HD satellite receiver, I have to swap over the cable when my wife wants to watch something on Hotbird. Now...

Thanks all Ok I've changed the motor setting to USALS and entered my long/lat that I got from Multimap. I went to Astra 2 28.2E sat and changed the transponder to 11221 (V) and got 56% strength and 76% quality and have now got BBC HD but now when I go to Hotbird 13.0 E I only get 56% strength...

Hi Robbo You'll have to excuse my ignorance with satellite terminology, its all new to me. He set it up using DiSEqC1.2. What I dont understand is getting Hotbird and Astra 1 so well and recalculating the position for the other satellites in the list, which there are about 20, including Astra...

Hi all I just got my new system installed, 1m motorised dish DISEqC 1.2 with a Humax HDCI-2000. I get Hotbird with 68% strength and 95% quality and Astra 1 with 70% strength and 95% quality. Problems are when I go to BBC HD on Astra 1 it appears briefly then the picture freezes. Also when I go...