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Not to worry Martin, it appears the tax has been cancelled. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertyinfrance/8585245/Nicolas-Sarkozy-drops-controversial-tax-on-second-homes-in-France.html Frank

I received this email this morning from someone wishing to buy my house without seeing it. VOILA APRÈS PLUSIEURS INVESTIGATIONS LE MODE OPÉRATOIRE LE PLUS SIMPLE  * vous convenez des clauses de manière générale  avec moi  1 - Vous me signez une procuration, qui me donnera autorité à agir en votre nom. Obligation de légaliser à la cour suprême du Bénin (en rapport avec l'importance du montant).  2 - Je vous ouvre un compte ici dans la même banque que moi  3 - Le compte sera crédité 72 heures après ouverture du montant indiqué.  4 - J'ordonne donc virement, d'un compte à votre nom au Bénin, vers un compte à votre nom en France. (juste comme un transfert personnel)  5 - Une fois le virement ordonné, je prends un vol vers la France.  6 - Cette fois-ci, je visiterai au mieux cette maison, son prix réel, et les modalités pratiques d'exécution.  7 - Quand votre compte est crédité, nous signons l’acte de vente, et je vous laisse carte blanche pour investissement.  Je me charge de mes billets d'avions, ainsi que de mon séjour en France. Vous aurez à charge les frais de légalisation de votre procuration ici, les frais d'ouverture de compte.  Voila en gros le seul moyen correct, rapide, et sans trop grande implication des taxes gouvernementales. Aucun autre procédé ne passera inaperçu, et si sur ce fond, on ne réussit pas à s'accorder, çà ne pourra pas se faire. J'ai étudié à fond la question depuis hier, et passer toute ma matinée à m'enquérir des meilleures voies de sortie.  Si vous vous inscrivez dans ce plan, on peut commencer immédiatement, et espérer finir l'acte de vente d'ici la semaine prochaine. Si vousavez des correctifs, j'attends votre appel. Vecelin. LAZAROV +229  66 11 43 99 This is a known scammer.  Take care.

Hi, Try this address for a VPN offer. http://www.vpn-discount.com/catalog.php I've seen it recommended by on a French forum. Frank

Hi, Try this to see if it's what you are looking for: http://www.my-expat-network.co.uk/getstart/vista/index.html Frank

Hi, Well I think he did share it but nevermind. Try ths link  http://www.my-expat-network.co.uk/index.html I can confirm it works. Frank

Hi Fred, Firstly, you are not receiving all or part of the multiplex R1. This multiplex is transmitted from the Nantes transmitter on Channel 47 at a power of 65kw, as opposed to channel 28 at 34kw before 18th May. So, assuming that you are using the Nantes transmitter, try doing a manual search on Ch 47 or 679.25 if you have to search using the frequency. If this works it may put the programmes on the correct numbers or not as the case may be, as Martin said look at the higher numbers to see if they have been stored there. In general there appear to be many problems being experienced by viewers since the change over and most of these are caused in part by relying on the automatic search facility, I would suggest to anyone having problems since the changeover to find out the channel numbers of their strongest transmitter and use the manual search facility   (delete all stored channels first). Many adapteurs store the lowest number channel first irrespective of the strength and now that the signal strength has been increased viewers who could only receive one transmitter before can now receive three or four dependant of course on where they are. One of my friends can receive Caen, Le Mans(Mayet), Rennes and Laval (Mt Rochard). The strongest being Laval to which the aerial is pointing, France 3 is not viewable due to some interaction problem and it's necessary to use Le Mans for France 3, the neighbour is using Caen? My point is that there are many new reception problems apparent and these seem to be poorly understood by some local installers. You may find the link below interesting. Frank http://www.artv.fr/tnt_nantes.htm

Hi, The way the various adapteurs store and number programmes is not always logical especially where a more distant transmitter has lower channel numbers. You may find that the programmes from the local transmitter have been stored on higher programme numbers sometimes 50's others 500's. So using the Programme + button scan through all the programme numbers over 18. You may well find stronger channels stored higher up. Frank

Hi, Your post is a little confusing because you mention cable, if you have a problem with a cable operator then that should be your first point of contact. I suspect though that you are using an aerial and a TNT adapteur. 'decoder'. On May 18th the Pays de Loire region switched off the analogue TV and the channel numbers for the TNT channels were changed. Therefore you will have to do a rescan to find the new home of the programmes. Of course initially the fact that you say you are receiving some sort of picture suggests otherwise but I saw this at a friends house as a result of the adapteur displaying pictures from the Caen transmitter where the changeover date was in March, these channels had been saved on the first scan and been assigned different numbers, when the Pays de Loire channels disappeared the Caen channels were defaulted to programmes 1, 2 etc. So the short answer do a rescan, MENU--Recherche automatique des chaines. Frank

Thank you Martin. Frank

Hi, Just to dot the i's. http://www.totalfrance.com/france/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66494&highlight= Last but one post. Frank

If the masthead amplifier has no power then in effect there is no aerial, any signal being received is probably being picked up on the cable. I came across this problem often when people had moved house, the new owner would have no television because the previous owner had taken the power unit with him. The simplest answer would be to try to source a new power unit. Frank

Firstly it is clear to me I have caused some offence to people who have made many helpful posts over many years on this forum, although I'm not sure it is relevant I have made a great deal more than 20 posts because I have lost my username twice during various changes to the forum. So I'm sorry if I upset anyone and perhaps I could have been more diplomatic. My remarks were not directed at either Martin or Anton, but I think you will agree there has been some rather dubious comment in this thread. I did not intend a global demolition job as Martin suggests but rather to suggest a little reflection before giving dubious advice to a non technical poster. In order not to cause further upset I will not list it!! I would not post on a forum if I didn't know the subject but sadly there are those that do, this comment is a comment on forums in general and not only this one. I'm sure that some of these postings are purely to increase the score. In any case thank you for the kind words in your reply Mr'963' and I hope you continue you to help people on the forum. Mr Little, Frank if you prefer.

Sorry Anton but the Sony can tune an individual analogue channel by just inputting the channel number. What I failed to say was that if you do change the channel it would be necessary to retune the input channels of the two video recorders. Frank

Oh dear, I have only just read this thread and I'm sorry but many of the replies you have received seem well wide of the mark. Perhaps people should read the question properly before rushing into print. Firstly please do not start pulling your system to pieces before you have tried a couple of simple solutions. I can't see any reason why your system should not work efficiently. Let's start with your confusion over the digital/analogue thing, you have made clear that you are non-technical so let's deal with that up for a start. The signals received from Astra2 on a satellite receiver, be it Sky or anything else,are digital signals whereas the output from a standard Sky box is analogue. It would have to be because people have not had access to digital TVs until recently. So if it makes it simpler you can think of a Sky box being not only a satellite receiver but a digital to analogue convertor. The three possibilities from a Sky box are: Pal composite video Pal composite video modulated onto a rf carrier, usually channel 36 or channel 38 by default. RGB For simplicity three separate colour pictures red green an blue. You are clearly using the composite video output from the Sky box and feeding it via a Scart lead into a Sedea RF modulator. You are then taking two outputs from this to two different rooms. I have looked on the Sedea website at their current RF modulator and there is a gain control close to one of the scart inputs, this gain control can vary the output signal by about ten times. So the very first thing to check is this control, turn it full up to start with, if necessary you reduce it if the signal becomes too strong. If this solution works you can forget the next bit. The next thing is to check which RF channel the Sedea is using. The attenuation(signal deterioration) on a cable is proportional to the channel No. or frequency being used. So for example if you were using UHF channel 68, better results would be obtained using UHF channel 21. The Sedea is capable of using Vhf signals which have an even lower loss and the Sony Bravia range can tune down as low as Channel 2. It appears that the Sony is easy to tune. So change the output channel of the Sedea to a vhf channel 2 or 3 and tune a spare analogue position, say 9, to that channel. Keep a note of the current output channel so if things go pear shape you can put it back where it was in order to maintain good marital relations. I suggest it would be better to leave the position 8 as it is, to enable you to back track if necessary. Frank

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