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    Box for UK freesat reception in France

    Thank you Tivu The darty box is actually a box from Darty, a Sagemcom TNT sat reciever, so I am now fairly sure it will not work at all, I think they are coded to the French satellite at 19°? . It's been taken back already in fact. So the F3 should work if set up properly? The Sagem box was...
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    Box for UK freesat reception in France

    Hii All Did a search for an answer but nothing definitive found! Some friends rent a house and their UK bought freesat box has died. Will this do the job? I bought something for them at Darty and it didn't work , so I just want to be sure this time! Cheers SS
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    Earth leak affecting signal?

    Just tried to order the diplexers / multiplexer set from Ireland.... €92 in postage alone!! Any suggestions?:-Nooo
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    Earth leak affecting signal?

    Thanks both, but there is no way to get anything down the conduit. I think even a hoover/ piece of cotton, tie the cotton to a string, tie the string to a line etc would not work, too many corners. Channel hopper, that sounded like greek to me... I really am a beginner at this!!! Cheers chaps :)
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    Earth leak affecting signal?

    Just took out the LNB input and the signal went to 80%. Still n ot getting all channels, biut I suspect that's it. Cheers!
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    Earth leak affecting signal?

    Well that's not the best news I've had all day! Thanks for the help VS. That may well close off this thread... :D
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    Earth leak affecting signal?

    Found the diplexer thing... are they powered?
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    Earth leak affecting signal?

    Hmmm the url did'nt quite work... just gave Product not found ' on the website. What I have is these _http://shop.satelliteonline.co.uk/signal-splitters-f-type-174-p.asp Do I need something beefier?
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    Earth leak affecting signal?

    Well I changed the 'weathered' top splitter for a new out of the bag one, and got no signal at all. Nil. Nada.:confused: What I can't get my head around is why it would be working a few weeks ago and now there's almost nothing. Most frustrating. This all started as a favour... :-HB and now...
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    Earth leak affecting signal?

    there is only a single cable, routed through some small conduit, no chance of a second cable :( Some of the tingles come from the cable, and some from the mast the dish and antenna are mounted on. The splitters are 2-in to 1-out, labelled SAT, TV, and IN/OUT, made by Konig? I dont seem to need...
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    Earth leak affecting signal?

    Greets all, not sure I should be putting this in this section, but here we go... On a terrestrial FreeView (TNT France) system with a dish running down the same cable via a splitter at the top and bottom, I can't get more than a 30% signal. This sucks frankly. I had it working for a while but...
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    Irritating issue with splitters...

    Unbelievable.... Looks like not 1 but 2 splitters behaving badly! Lucky Melksham sent me 4! Panic over all sorted. Thanks for being a sounding board! Sometimes it's easier to see something explaining it to others even if there's no reply, which in this case there was anyway!!
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    Irritating issue with splitters...

    Well... As I was writing the original post, I thought I could try isolating the ariel from the earth, so 10 mins and some clingfilm later, there is no longer a buzz. I tried a different ariel too, albeit a cheap one and it made no difference. As it's such a sunny day, I think I'll sit on the...
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    Irritating issue with splitters...

    Hello again chaps Can you believe trhis is the same as I was talking about in December? Grrr.. I have a cable running inside a wall that needs to take a satellite and terrestrial digital signal. I have a sat/tv splitter top and bottom from very helpful people in Wilts, and am using off the...
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    What size of dish for finding Aliens and such?

    The tin-foil hat won't save you. They're already here. My girlfriend works for them. As for the size of dish for detecting shall we say 'newcomers', I just watched 'Contact' with Jodie Foster, and measured the dishes in that. On my 32" screen they're about 7" most of the time. I think this has...
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