Recent content by SwissBuster

I tried adjusting the dish/LNB to improve the signal, cleaned the LNB, and even tried taping metal foil to the sides of the dish to see if this increased the reception. Nothing worked. Then I accidentally selected a Swiss German TV channel last night and it worked! Everything is back up. I can't...

Thanks. Turns out in MediaPortal that this is 'A' on the keyboard. Just need to wait 'til later to test this solution!

It is on the side of the house about 3 m above the ground: It is under the overhanging roof but a long way below it. THe view of the sky is unimpeded. You are right that I sometimes loose the signal due to rain. This has to be a very heavy storm, though. I usually loose 28E and 13E before 19E...

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum... I'm receiving BBC HD with the audio track for the visually impaired. I find this distracting and would prefer not to have this audio track. Is there a way to remove this and/or a different broadcast for the 'normal' soundtrack? I am using a homemade...

Thanks to all. I guess when I have a spare moment I'll try some minute adjustments to the dish/LNB to see if this helps.

The dish is about 45cm, but it is an eliptical and surprisingly efficient design. Before everyone says 'it's too small', I am receiving about 5000 channels and everything else I want from 28E, 23E, 19E and 13E without any problems. I ran another scan this afternoon to check the TPs on 13E - I...

Somewhat of a newbie question here, but first the background. I noticed a few months ago that I lost reception for the two Swiss-German TV channels. No great shakes, but I recently found out that I had also lost some nice radio channels, so I tried to re-scan for all these. I noticed in my...

Actually, I do now! I took the plunge last year and had a PC built to do this task. It was a decent, modern PC (i.e. mid range cost - search my profile at www.team-mediaportal.com for the gory detail) where the build focus was on a discrete and silent PC. The first attempt was without a...

I bought this online via http://www.satdiscount.ch/start/ (site is in German). It is the 45cm dish as you thought. It works fine but note that the small dish size makes it sensitive to poor weather (in a heavy storm, we loose the signal). They do make a version with a large dish. In normal...

I've recently noticed that I can no longer receive the two Swiss German channels (SF1 and SF2) and HD Suisse. I've run a scan on my system but I still can't pick these up. It's hardly the end of the Wolrd for me, but was wondering if anyone knows why?

I finally resolved this one. I did a complete system reset back to the factory settings an re-scanned all channels. This produced the full channel list of transpoder 10729V 22000... I've no idea why it wasn't picking these up before. To answer my own question ("do different satellite receivers...

Thanks. At least I'm clear on what data I should be entering now. I've tried several things out overnight: 1. I got my mates PC with a sat card working properly and did a full channel scan. This picked up everything - Channel 4, E4, More 4, the works. This tells me that the dish/LNB combo is...

Here's a screen shot of the 'manual setup 'page. As you can see I've selected the satellite at 28.5°E. Then I have frequency, symbol rate and polarisation which all seem pretty clear. The next three fields are PCR-PID, Audi-PID and Video-PID. My guess for channel 4 would be Video-PID = 2312...

Anyone have an opinion or any experience with this??

Yeah, I'll do this over the weekend. I also thought I should be able to see all channels on a transponder, hence my confusion.