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For all you Sky Freesat people who are still using the blue and yellow (or no card) in your box, you can get Ch5 by doing the following and save yourself the £25 it costs for a white card
Services/4/4
Frequency 10773
Polarisation H (Toggle arrow right)
Symbol Rate 22.0 (Toggle Arrow right)
FEC 5/6 (Ditto)
Find channels
When channel list comes up, scroll down to Channel 5, press yellow button to select, press Select to store.
Channel 5 is now available to view on Services/Other Channels without a card.
You can do the same with your regional ITV, if you know the Frequency etc. (See Lyngsat web-page for that).
Your local BBC1 channel is available from 971 upwards. BBC2 from 990 upwards.
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Wiring Tip
If you are installing a new faceplate and are worried about crunching the coax cable behind it,an easy solution it to feed an f-connector to the downlead and then attach a right angle F-connector, remove the guts from the faceplate, fit an f-barrel with accompanying nut and washer on inside and nut on outside and hey presto, a kink free sat connection!
Solves many wiring probs when trying to get an RF2 signal up to another location.
If you are skilled, all you need to construct your own faceplate is a blank plate and 10mm drill bit as well as the F's.
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Technical Fault Notice. A basic remedy.
ALWAYS SWITCH OFF AT WALL FIRST, NEVER REMOVE POWER LEAD FROM DIGIBOX FIRST.
1) Switch off at wall socket.
2) Remove plug from wall socket and/or socket adapter.
3)Remove other end of power lead from digibox.
4)Immediately, replace power lead back in digibox.
5) Replace plug into wall socket/adapter, if used.
6) Switch on and go to Services/4/6 for Standard sky box or Services,0 4 for Sky+HD boxes, to check Signal strength/quality.
The error can be caused by build up of static in power lead.
Always ensure that you have fitted the box end of the power lead before switching on at the wall. Nervous fingers trying to fit a live power lead to an often fairly inaccessible back of a digibox can cause arcing and blow the power supply in the box.
PS. Anyone out there wishing to develop a luminous scart cable for the same reason, ie ease of connection??? :)
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DSO in Scotland
We have now completed the DSO in Scotland, but initially it was a 2 stage procedure. In July 2010, (Highlands & Islands)our BBC's went digital and the ITV's stayed on analogue. In October 2010, stage 2 k took place and the ITV stations went digital and all analogue was switched off.
At both stages, a First Time Installation was required to get all the available channels. A re-scan is not enough.
Info is provided here just in case people in England assume that ALL channels are immediately available in Digital form. If not, the missing channels could still be available on Analogue, ie TV as Output rather than DTV as Output.
May save a lot of questions on here as to Where are my channels?
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Friday 19 August 2011 3:06AM
Ryan: You have two options.
a) Leave cabling as is and switch off Sky box in lounge when you go to bed, leaving your new freesat box to singularly get all the signal. or
b) connect your bedroom feed to RF2 on your lounge Sky box, open up RF2 in Installer Menu, (Services, 4,0,1,) select an output channel between 21 and 69 and put the other end of the coax DIRECT into your bedroom TV aerial socket. Tune the TV (Analogue) to get the Sky channel. To change channels you will need to fit a Magic eye to the bedroom cable before it goes into the aerial socket. Vision do a good one with a small eye and a tail for around £5, available on Ebay. You do not connect the Freesat box if you use this option. (Vision TVLink)
Otherwise you can run a second feed to the distribution box for the flat to make use of your freesat box, but you would need to clear it with the flat owners, or if all the flat tenants pressurised the owner to fit twin cables for all, you could get Sky to do it under FSD.