All posts by Richard
Below are all of Richard's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
I do not have equipment for testing for aligning dish for freesat signals.The best method is to select a high frequency channel such as CBS Reality opn your EPG,then move dish until strong signal is received.If reception is satisfactory,then dish is aligned for macximum signal.I have tried and tested all sorts of equipment.All obtained from my local council recycling centre.
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Sky have n excess of 600,000 suscribers in Southern Ireland.Vat @20% paid on subscrptions in euros goes to the British Exchequer.There was public outrage a few yrars ago when the FAI did a deal with Sky to obtain the rv rights to home internationals. Many people threatened to cancel sky and boycott Lansdowne Road if Sky and FAI did not return tv rights to terrestial tv statios RTE and TV3.Sky were glad to return rightsSky take people for granted.A call out charge minimum 110 euros applies and may take up to a fortnight for service.
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Sam ensure that scart lead is fully attached at both ends.Ensure that it is fully inserted and is horizontal,all 21 pin heads must make contact at both ends.
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Several itv +1 regions are named on epg of my silvercrest sat receiver.Numbers appear for Stv+1 and Utv+1.Does anyone know why these are not identified by name?
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Christo, I have used mostly German freesat receivers.It is possible to choose any regions of your choice for BBC,ITV,(except 3or 4 ITV regions which are encrypted)I have BBC London set as 001 bbc2 England as 002.All channels may be arranged in any order that you wish.Radio stations may arranged in a similoar manner.Several regions of Channel 4 are available,advertising differs.All +1 channels are available.
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Briantist,entering post codes is not possible in Southern Ireland as our postal system does not have same.Thank for comment.
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Briantist,switch I purchased is satisfactory considering that all equipment installed by me is old and obtained from recycling centres and skips.One dish looks as if it was used for target practise in a shooting range as I had to drill 4 extra holes in it to fit a supporting bracket.Freesat signals are excellent.The other dish is distorted around the rim but signals from Astra 19.2 are excellent.The receiver I use is a siolvercrest.
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People are paying too much for subscription tv in Britain and Ireland. I have seen ads on French and Spanish channels offering Canal+ for 25 euros a month.Package consist of top keague football,films aqnd documentaries.No basic must be purchased to get this premium package.
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Briantist,my satellite receiver had to be re-programmed to accept signals from both satellites. It rejected signals from freesat when switch was connected.I had to issue a command to receiver to accept dual reception.Signal loss is only 1%.Reception from freesat is at 78%,from astra 1 it is 75%.Cables are 16M in length from dishes.
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Friday 7 January 2011 8:49PM
Kelly,a freesat receiver should pick up all astra 2d and eurobird 1 channels provided that it is connected and aligned properly.Dish should work if LNB is in working order.A sky dish and Thomson LNB gives best results for freesat.I have 80% signal strength on all freesat channels using second hand equipment,some oh it rescued from a skip.