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My triax 78cm dish was originally set up on a temporary tripod arrangement (a cement mixer stand). If you know the new triax design, it is very easy to assemble and goes up quick, great until the wind pushes your dish over and the swinging arm hits your dish, destroy's your LNB and dints your...

I'll give it a try!:)

The signal you are trying to pick up is so small that it can be completely lost using the wrong type of cable. You need the correct cable (CT100) or equivalent with no joins along it's length, and as short as possible, but no sharp bends.

I have a technomate 1500CI super receiver (patched) which i bought off ebay. I also have a 78cm dish and 0.2db LNB, also from ebay. My dish is lashed onto a cement mixer stand ( i kid you not), and i can easily pick up hotbird at 13 degrees. My Art card was also an ebay buy, and after some basic...

It helps to have a consistent signal. I thought my card was faulty, it turned out that my dish was slightly mis-aligned and i was getting an in-consistent signal, sometimes 65% dropping to 25% and the Art card did'nt like it and reported a scrambled channel. My dish is attached to a cement...

I have a technomate 1500 CI super receiver, and a 12 month ART full bouquet card which i bought off ebay. After working for the last 2 weeks, it's stopped being recognised, even though it's less than 1 month old:( I have a good signal from 13 degrees, * 12015, but cannot open the channels as...