Wils
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Thanks Chancer, all else failed and we called 3244, they are sending someone out on Monday. Thanks also to NormanH.
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Why don't you go back to bed and get out the other side!
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A friend has a freebox which has been working fine. It now does not connect. We have unplugged and replugged, the broken line whirls around a bit then we get a display of 88:88, does anyone have any idea what the problem could be? Thanks in anticipation.
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Firstly can I thank everyone who replied to my initial post. Special thanks to Quillan for his extensive reply. I have decided however not to go down the 'wood' road, I'm no spring chicken and the thought of having to get up a ladder sometime in the future to get them down to paint really doesn't appeal. The aluminium ones are guaranteed for 15 years and by then I probably won't know what a shutter is (or the kids can sort it if they want to inherent the house). Anyway, next job is erecting a panneau fence, wish me luck!
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HiWe are looking to replace old, rotten wooden shutters on a 400 year old mas. We are considering aluminium shutters. Has anyone any experience of them, recommendations etc. First salesman is quoting about 700 euros per pair all inclusive. Any information would be appreciated.Bob
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It may be dish size but can I suggest you try the following first. Connect up your Sky box to the TV and co-axial cable but NOT the mains, remove the viewing card.Whilst holding down the BACKUP key on the Digibox - NOT ON THE REMOTE - turn the mains power on. Wait until all 4 lights on the front of the box come on then release the BACKUP key. You then wait for about 10 minutes or so (until the 4 lights go out again). Turn the box and TV on, you should have the signal back. This is really just a forced upgrade for the software but it works in a large number of cases of 'No signal being received'. Hope this helps.
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I use a VPN called Viatun, it costs about £8 for the year and you can use iplayer perfectly.
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Many thanks Quillan, I have downloaded the app, very useful.
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An English neighbor has asked me to take down their large dish used for UK TV and, as they are moving and have sold to French people to put one up for French TV. I am using a Satlink WS-6980 meter, does anyone have the co-ordinates etc for the French satellite ?Thanks
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I have just purchased, privately, a second hand car. The car had a new CT done just before my purchase and has the relevant window sticker. I have had to register the vehicle in my name and, a part of this process I now have a new number plate. My problem is that this means that the number plate shown on the CT does not now match the new number plate on the vehicle. Can anyone tell me if anything needs to be done about this.
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Today's conundrum. I use a Satlink WS 6908 meter and with this, set on transponder 78 I have happily installed about a dozen dishes around here achieving a good signal, usually within about 10 minutes or less. Today I have spent about 3 hours on my gite roof with the same size dish I have been installing and have got nothing! I took the meter up to the house and tried it on our telly which has a great signal and.............it reads nothing. Connections to the meter are all fine as is the battery, other than the thing has totally packed up any other ideas?
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Hi Théière What type of meter are you using? Does it allow you to enter the transponder number? If so try 78, works fine for me down here and I have installed about 12 dishes for folk. Could 80cm be too small, I'm installing 1.1 Metre.
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And then, as if by magic, they are all back again, 3 hours later. Same for the other ex-pats down here so it wasn't my set up. Most, including me, down here in Herault are using 1.1 metre dishes and they have been fine, usually, slight wobble with HD channels in the evenings. This is the first time everything went including Sky. Anyway now got the beeb back so happy bunny.
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Noon today. Just got back home and all channels are gone! No signal being received, not even Sky News. Checked with other local ex-pats and same thing there, all were working fine this morning. We all have new dishes and all have worked fine (ish) since Feb/March. Any clues?
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TarrotAre you totally sure that the 6906 doesn't let you change the transponder. Normally you scroll down to TP and use the right hand arrow button to increase the value, up to 78 which is the 2e transponder. It would make your life much easier.
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OK Tarrot here we goSatellite Astra 2B/2DLNB Type - UniversalLNB LF - 09750LNB HF - 10600TP Number 78Freq - 10773Symbol rate - 21984Hope this helps
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I have a Satlink 6908. To locate Astra 2e I use 'Quick Search' and go to Astra 2B/2D. Then scroll down to TP num and set that to 78 which is the transponder for 2e. It automatically changes frequency and symbol rate. That has worked fine for me, hope this helps.
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Hi JoidevieI have had exactly the same experience here in The Languedoc. I spent 2 hours on a roof today trying to get a strong signal without success even though I have fitted about 6 similar dishes over the last few weeks and they normally took about 10 minutes or less to find signal. At our gaf we have lost BBC on 101 and 102 etc as well as HD. We still get the regional BBC though and that is with a 115cm dish Something is going on and it's not just the strong wind.
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I have just bought one of thesehttps://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B00A30XY50?keywords=SATLINK&qid=1383925720&ref_=sr_1_2&sr=8-299 euros delivered and you can see the programme being transmitted on the screen.
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An update from the deep south, Herault (34) close to Pezenas. The normal dish size here (pre-apocalypse) was 80cm with some getting by with 60cm. After the sat change MOST with an 80cm lost signal from spotbeam 2e (trying to sound like I know what I'm talking about...fail) but about 30% still get all channels on the original 80cm dish. We, sadly were not in the 30%. Today we had fitted a 1 metre dish and I supplied a new quad LNB as the existing one was about 6 years old. All channels now back up and running, we have a rainy/windy day today (most unusual) but almost no picture disturbance at all. I hope this report helps the techies, any more info required just shout.
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We are in the Herault, 10 minutes outside Pezenas. Varying results here, we have lost all BBC with an 80cm dish as have most people. A couple of friends are still receiving BBC 1 from various regions (Scotland and North East) with 80cm dishes so I think we are on the cusp with 80cm and will probably be OK with 1 metre dish. This is not from a techie though and I might try to adjust the skew on my LNB to se if that helps.
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Not being a very techie tech (hope I'm still allowed here) it appears that BBC1 HD Scotland and Wales are still on 2F. Now it seems their channel number is 101 on Sky, same as all the others. If this is the case I assume you could change the 'default' BBC 1 setting on a sky box to go to one of these....no? If so how do you do it?
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I have an 80cm dish with quad LNB. I am now streaming BBC1 via laptop and VPN with no problems
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Morning all. Report from The Languedoc, Pezenas area, all BBC/ITV etc have gone including local BBC channels. Over to the laptop I suppose until more info on dish sizes etc comes along.
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