Satellite TV

[Bernard Peek]

The new house has a satellite dish. I've got a cheap DVB-S decoder from
Ebay. It appears to work and identifies a satellite (Telecom 2 3.0 East)
but its scan finds no channels. Where can I find what to try next?


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[Andy Burns]

Bernard Peek wrote:
> The new house has a satellite dish. I've got a cheap DVB-S decoder from
> Ebay. It appears to work and identifies a satellite (Telecom 2 3.0 East)
> but its scan finds no channels. Where can I find what to try next?

Were the previous occupants Libyan?

http://en.kingofsat.net/pos-3.0E.php

You probably want to re-align the dish to 28.2 East, do-able with
luck'n'judgement keeping an eye on signal strength/quality from the STB
but easier with a cheap meter

http://www.macfh.co.uk/JavaJive/AudioVisualTV/SatelliteTV/SatelliteCalculator.php

or

dishpointer.com

[The Other John]

On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:01:17 +0100, Bernard Peek wrote:

> The new house has a satellite dish. I've got a cheap DVB-S decoder from
> Ebay. It appears to work and identifies a satellite (Telecom 2 3.0 East)
> but its scan finds no channels. Where can I find what to try next?

Assuming you want to receive UK programmes you need to point the dish
further east to pick up the 28.2 E Astra group.

TOJ

[Bernard Peek]

On 21/04/13 16:32, Andy Burns wrote:
> Bernard Peek wrote:
>> The new house has a satellite dish. I've got a cheap DVB-S decoder from
>> Ebay. It appears to work and identifies a satellite (Telecom 2 3.0 East)
>> but its scan finds no channels. Where can I find what to try next?
>
> Were the previous occupants Libyan?

An Imam from the mosque across the road.

>
> http://en.kingofsat.net/pos-3.0E.php
>
> You probably want to re-align the dish to 28.2 East, do-able with
> luck'n'judgement keeping an eye on signal strength/quality from the STB
> but easier with a cheap meter
>
> http://www.macfh.co.uk/JavaJive/AudioVisualTV/SatelliteTV/SatelliteCalculator.php
>
>
> or
>
> dishpointer.com
>

Thanks.

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[Bill Wright]

Bernard Peek wrote:

>> Were the previous occupants Libyan?
>
> An Imam from the mosque across the road.

Check everywhere for explosives, and also fumigate the place.

Bill

[Tim Watts]

Ahem: One of my mates is Libyan. He's a damn decent bloke - an Archaeologist
in fact. And yes, he hated Gadaffi.


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[Bill Wright]

Tim Watts wrote:
> On Sunday 21 April 2013 21:15 Bill Wright wrote in uk.d-i-y:
>
>> Bernard Peek wrote:
>>
>>>> Were the previous occupants Libyan?
>>> An Imam from the mosque across the road.
>> Check everywhere for explosives, and also fumigate the place.
>>
>> Bill
>
> Ahem: One of my mates is Libyan. He's a damn decent bloke - an Archaeologist
> in fact

Well, it's a fact of course that archaeologists are amongst humanity's
finest...

. And yes, he hated Gadaffi.
>

What's his cooking smell like? Secondhand furniture from homes where
food is very spicy can smell strange for ages.

Your friend is the unfortunate victim of the mad bombers. I had a friend
(to be accurate he was a colleague of a friend and I sometimes gave both
of them a lift from the Folk Club) who I call Tracki because I couldn't
get my tongue round his real name. It is unfortunate that his personal
appearance, age, sex, speech, and skin colour all agreed with the
archetypal image of a mad bomber. And yes, when he was unexpectedly away
from his Sheffield flat for several days the other residents panicked,
and prevailed upon the management agent to go in and look for
explosives! To his great credit Trac said he quite understood their
concern, and I think that is central. The bombers have made innocent
people like him suspects. He wrote a whimsical letter and put it on the
notice board in the hall saying that when he arrived in Yorkshire he'd
been told that everyone was really friendly, but no-one in the flats had
ever spoken to him. He said that if they have 'they might have
discovered that he was not Allah with horns and a forked tail' (Getting
his religious mythology a bit mixed there I thought). Has also asked the
hypothetical question, what would Mr Greatly have done if he'd found any
bombs? He's back in Egypt now anyway.

Bill

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 22/04/13 01:15, Bill Wright wrote:
> Tim Watts wrote:
>> On Sunday 21 April 2013 21:15 Bill Wright wrote in uk.d-i-y:
>>
>>
> Well, it's a fact of course that archaeologists are amongst humanity's
> finest...

with the absolute exception of Tony Robinson.

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[Andy Champ]

On 22/04/2013 02:13, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 22/04/13 01:15, Bill Wright wrote:
>> Tim Watts wrote:
>>> On Sunday 21 April 2013 21:15 Bill Wright wrote in uk.d-i-y:
>>>
>>>
>> Well, it's a fact of course that archaeologists are amongst humanity's
>> finest...
> with the absolute exception of Tony Robinson.
>

Point of information, and with no knowledge of the characters of Tony or
archaeologists - he's a TV presenter and actor, not an archaeologist.
He's probably picked up a good bit of knowledge over the years, but that
doesn't make him one.

Andy

[Brian Gaff]

No more likely to be dodgy food items.. grin.
Brian

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[Brian Gaff]

So about realigning this chaps dish then...

Brian

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[Windmill]

I think that most of us are similarly uneasy about Muslims. Which is in
most cases unfair, I would guess, but that's human nature.

We conveniently forget, if we ever knew, that 400 years ago this
country was riven by religious warfare, Cathoilc v. Protestant,
Cavaliers v. Roundheads, all that stuff I ignored when I was in school.





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[Bernard Peek]

On 22/04/13 10:42, Windmill wrote:
> Bill Wright <bi...@invalid.com> writes:
>
>> Bernard Peek wrote:
>
>>>> Were the previous occupants Libyan?
>>>
>>> An Imam from the mosque across the road.
>
>> Check everywhere for explosives, and also fumigate the place.

We are more likely to be raided by the bomb squad than the previous
owner was. I'm a known associate of people with explosives convictions
and I've already been raided at dawn by the police looking for terrorists.

WPC: "Are you male or female?"

Me: {strokes beard, peers under bedclothes} "Male I think."

And I can't tell whether the house smells of strange foreign foods until
the smell of the curry I cooked last night dissipates.

>
> I think that most of us are similarly uneasy about Muslims. Which is in
> most cases unfair, I would guess, but that's human nature.
>
> We conveniently forget, if we ever knew, that 400 years ago this
> country was riven by religious warfare, Cathoilc v. Protestant,
> Cavaliers v. Roundheads, all that stuff I ignored when I was in school.

I take it you didn't go to school in either Northern Ireland or Scotland.

And in answer to Brian's question: thanks for asking, I think I now have
the answers I need and can go ahead if I can borrow a ladder long enough
to reach the dish. I was hoping that I wouldn't need to re-align it but
it seems that's unavoidable.


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