No Channel 5!

[Thebiga]

A while back I think that alot of people had a problem all of a sudden over the same weekend and they lost channel five and all its variants, Anyway my channel five has been very hit and miss since and for some weeks now its been gone completly! Anyone have any ideas its a sky box and working on the old card. Between ourselves and our inlaws we have 4 sky boxes with the old cards and 2 of them have lost the channel 5. they all work off the same dish, does anyone have any ideas.

thankyou

[Clair]

See if you can view it by adding it manually:

• With your digibox turned on, press the "Services" button (near the top of the remote).

• Select number 4 (System Setup), and then 4 again ("Add Channels").

• In the appropriate fields enter the following (you move through the fields using the up and down arrow keys).

• In the Frequency field enter: 10.773,

• The next three fields are toggle fields, i.e. using the left and right arrows will change the value.

• Toggle Polarisation to : H

• Toggle Symbol Rate to: 22000

• Toggle FEC to : 5/6

• Then select the last button - Find Channels.

• Channel 5 will now be in the list of channels maybe called 6335

• Use the Yellow button to place a tick beside each one you wish to store
  and when you've finished ticking press "Select". The channel will
  now be stored.

You can view it by pressing the "Services" button, then 6 ("Other

Channels"), use the arrow keys to move to the channel you want and

press "Select".

[Loirette]

Hi

We also lost channel 5 recently following a thunderstorm.  Eventually we unplugged the box from the mains and after a few minutes plugged it back in and everything went back to normal.  So, if you haven't already, perhaps try that.  It may just work.