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Can anyone shed any light on why a French bought/German made satellite decoder lined up to Sky on it's Astra 2d satellite does not have any radio stations on it's menu? It scanned and stored all the usual 'free views' such as BBC and ITV television programs but no radio. Strange.

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Assuming you had to do a full scan and add channels and have BBC Parliment then there may be a button marked Radio/TV on the remore control. If you post make and model on the decoder somebody may be able able to shed some light if the above is not the answer.

Bit more detail and a link to a manual (second page of thread)

http://www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/1/1145321/ShowPost.aspx#1145321

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Thanks both and yes Anton, it was a full scan. Once done this particular box allows you to view the channels found (unlike the sky box which mix n matches freeview with subscription) I just wondered if this was a general thing with decoders bought over here in France and if anybody else had the same problem. No tv/radio button on the handset by the way.

We also know the signl componant is OK as its fed from a multiple LNB that runs to two other (Sky) decoders both of which work fine, so maybe the tuner or software is somehow different, but I cannot imagine how or why it would discriminate across the bandwidth.

A real puzzle with pieces missing! 

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Its a Skymaster DX 24. Not tried Parliament yet... good tip, thanks. Maybe it's worth looking up the transponder settings and see where these channels are 'living' in relation to the others - although the box does not seem to have an option for inputing these direct unlike the Sky digibox.

 

 

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