All posts by Tony Riz
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Briantist, you are a top, top man!!! Although I'd tried a scan for new channels of sorts earlier in the day without success, just did another more comprehensive one and finally found Rai 1,2 & 3 up in the 600's!!
Thank you so much. You've made my 81 year old Sicilian mum very happy again.
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Hi Clara,
Sorry for the late response but I've just seen your post. As I indicated earlier, I'm a bit of a techno-phobe myself and failed in an earlier conducted scan/search. After Briantist advised that a retune should suffice, I tried again and up they came - I'm not exactly certain what I did correctly to make it work the second time around, although I did change more settings.
Anyway, this is what I did:
Go to Installation and then to Auto Navigation:
Search Type - All
Network Search - Off
I then went to Blind Search:
Polarization - All
Scan Mode - Fast
Then onto Advanced Search:
Search Type - All Channels
Network Search - Off
And then pressed Scan.
I could see that plenty of new channels were found so having done that, I went through all of them and - after almost giving up - came across Rai 1,2 & 3 around the 600th or so channel up (out of more than about a 1,000 or so!!). All I did then was move the programmes down to the front of the schedule so they were easier for my mother to find.
Give it a try and I hope you have the same success that I did. Good luck.
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Hi guys, forgive me if this is too simple a problem but I need advice and hope someone can help nonetheless . My mother has been watching Italian Tv via a dish and technomate TM 1000 receiver for a few years now with no problem. However whilst in the middle of changing channels yesterday she suddenly came across the 'no/bad signal' message. Having done the basics like switch it off then back on again; checked that all the leads were in their rightful place etc, I'm thinking that there might be something wrong with the dish or with it's alignment/LNB. The problem is that the dish is positioned fairly high up on the side of a block of flats (3rd floor) and thus it isn't easy to get access to see if the problem stems from there. So, is there anything I can do via the options in Technomate to confirm/fix the problem without recourse to calling an engineer out? If the answer is No, then are there any trustworthy companies in East London that you can recommend to diagnose and fix the trouble? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Neil Bell: Thanks for the reply. The box itself seems to be working okay (in the sense that it does change to the appropriate tuned in channels when asked), it's just that every channel as the 'No Signal' message, which is what made me think it's probably a problem with the dish.
I live just past Hackney Marshes so probably 30 minutes or so away from Ilford. If you have a long ladder that can reach up to the third floor of a block of flats (guesstimation being that it's probably about 30-40ft up) which is where the dish is currently placed in order to get good reception, and we can agree on a reasonable fee, then I'm sure we can wait until sometime on Saturday. Why don't you send me an email (tonyriz@fsmail.net) and we can discuss this further? My poor mother has spent the past 2 days missing her usual programmes so I'd like to be able to sort it out for her asap if possible, but without using a 'cowboy'!! Thanks again for the replies
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Steve P: Not definitively yet as I don't have another box or dish to try as an alternative and the dish is situated in a position that isn't easy to reach without a triple ladder. I do suspect it's something to do with the dish though. Could a Sky Box be used to help at least establish if the problem is the receiver as opposed to the dish? If not, is there any other way to ascertain that?
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Neil: As it happens I decided - for the sake of my dear old mum, who has been stuck watching English programmes she doesn't really enjoy or understand for the past 3 days - to get it resolved once and for all and called an engineer out this afternoon. The receiver box was okay and the problem apparently stemmed from over-growing trees on blocking the path of the signal - something that has happened before and is common around this area. That means having to move the dish from it's already high position to the even more elevated roof of the block of flats where she lives. Has ended up costing me way more than I expected but I've been told that once moved, we won't have that particular problem again. Anyway, many thanks to both your good self and Steve P for your time and advice. Much appreciated.
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Thursday 26 May 2011 12:43PM
Sorry for appearing naive (I'm a bit of an old techno-phobe) but I need a bit of clarification. Does that mean that there is nothing I can do to get Rai 1, 2 & 3 for free like I used to? I can't just simply retune? (I have a Technomate 1000 receiver that allows me to get other free to air channels on Hotbird 13E).
Any help as to how to get those channels back would be appreciated as my dear old mum is already missing her programmes!!