Recent content by valb

I think they may have tried to improve the software. If I try for ITV3, that's only available for about 30 minutes a day, then I get the message "Not available", whereas if I try for e.g. ITV Anglia, where there is a fluctuating signal, then the box locks up. As far as I remeber ITV3 also locked...

I use a 1.5m prime focus dish 33 km north of Copenhagen and only have BBC 1 (Cambridge) from early afternoon until late at night. BBC2, 3 and 4 only last a couple of hours and ITV2 & 3 last about an hour. ITV 1 (London) works sometimes but I would never start watching a long program with the...

@corrigap Yes I used to swith to ITV1 London when my default ITV transponder started to fail and this used to be OK for F1. Now they are both dead until about 4-5pm. Last evening I even tried putting the old Genesis lnb in place again. It was marginally better in as much as there were coloured...

I'm glad to hear that some of you are still optimistic as regards 2D. At the moment I'm really p****d off with BBc, ITV and SES. I had a genesis 0,4-5 on my old prime focus 1.5m dish and could see ITV1 during prime time unless the weather was bad. I then ordered an MTI from ******* and got...

Hi Maxi 1 33 km north of Copenhagen. 1.5m prime focus dish. See my earlier reports in the 2D reception thread. Regards, valb

Is the 10773 transponder stronger in the South than the North? I'm in Denmark and can get a lock on most 2D frequencies - not always a perfect picture - but 10773 just won't lock despite the signal strength and quality seeming to be the same as the others. Or can it be that the LNB has problems...

All day - weather permitting.

10832H usually gives me the best reception. You can see ITV London here when Anglia on 10891H starts to break up. Good "hunting"

Yes! By BBC ONE LN I'm referring to the 10847V transponder. I must agree with you that it does seem odd that you can't get a lock on 10773 and yet are able to view programs you have stored from this frequency. Is it possible that the BBC techies have found a way of blocking for adding channels...

The channels you view from the Add Channels are the ones stored there. Last night when it rained hard my BBC One LN (on 2D) started to break up, whereas there was no problem with BBC on EPG 101. Can you get both ITV2 on 10906 and BBC on 10773? As 10906 is vertical and 10773 is horizontal I have...

Well done Expat. I seem to rember you starting before Christmas! How's 10773 where you are? Yes Puffin It was a slip of the finger. Anyway I hope that once the progs. on this transponder are on the EPG it will be easier to fine tune. As you know the trouble with the manual tune facility on the...

Here in Hillerød, North of Copenhagen, I've always had problems with ITV2, whereas all the other transponders on 2D have been OK except in bad weather - the new Sky music channels are fine, Hallmark, Disney etc. are also OK and I am getting BBC LDN fine as are BBC2W & NI but BBC1 etc. on 10733...

My measurements of when the signal was there and not there were not done scientifically. At the time it just seem to fit that it was on for 4 hours and then off again for 4 hours. I've read a report from Spain where they experienced the same sort of thing on the north beams. I've also seen a...

I got rid of the on/off cycle approx. every 4 hours by adjusting the LNB skew so that unless it was raining a lot ITV1 London was always available. As were Disney, Hallmark and Eurosport News. ITV2 was seldom available. As you have not noticed any dropoff in signal strength I guess the problem...

Just north of Copenhagen I haven't been able to see anything on 2D since 1st. January. I don't know if it's because of the temperature outside -15C causing my 1.5m Triax to change shape or because the signal has been reduced. As it's so cold outside I haven't done a lot to control the alignment...