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Subject: Re: Stockholm and Panasonic TU DSB30

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Bitman

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Date Posted: 04:57:26 12/04/03 Thu
In reply to: JVT 's message, "Re: Stockholm and Panasonic TU DSB30" on 10:12:27 12/02/03 Tue

>>>Hej!
>>>Do you get the FTA channels from the other ASTRA
>>>Satellites?
>>>Like the shoppingchannels, TCM, L!VETV, BBC
>>>Parlament...
>>>
>>>Or nothing at all?
>>>If you get nothing you might not have found ASTRA2,
>>>but another satellite. I believe there is one turkish
>>>and one from the middle east on each side of the
>>>ASTRA2.
>>>
>>>If you get the ASTRA2 FTA channels, I have no idea
>>>what you can do. Don't know anything about SKY
>>>receivers.
>>>
>>>Lycka till!
>>>/Ingemar
>>
>>Have to agree with Ingmar. Looks like you've hit
>>another satellite. From my own experience Astra 19 is
>>easily picked up first.In that case you want to go
>>fractionally east and fractionally down.
>>If memory serves me right you should a get a lock even
>>without a card.
>>
>>/Iain
>
>Hi, I've had this problem too. I've had lock "OK" but
>0000s on the ID and the transport stream. The problem
>I had there was that the LNB was not exactly at the
>focal point. It was the problem with the dish arms I'd
>mentioned previously ! The question I have for you at
>the moment is have you switched the 22kHz Tone
>Generator back on so you can get Ch4 and Ch5 off the
>Astra 2A/B ? That may explain the situation if you
>can not currently get the other Sky Channels.
>Incidently, you do not need a card to get a lock "OK"
>indication. You have my phone number from my direct
>email, call me.

But you do need a current card to get a picture on C4/five.
Once you've got a lock and the correct transport stream, try Sky News, which is a good strong signal.
Once you've optimized roughly for that, you're ready to try for the weaker BBC transponders.

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