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I think someone may have shot down the south beam satellite or wherever it comes from, perhaps its blown a fuse.
We are currently in the Averyon region of the south of France and have noticed for about a week now that all the naff channels that you watch when your out of range of BBC1, ITV etc have gone off. You know True Movies, True Entertainment (wall to wall Waltons, smashing), The Vault (music), NME etc etc. We still have sky news and all the BBC1, ITV etc which I assume are on the north beam as they are first to go when you reach Italy and places but the others we always seem to get everywhere and certainly always in France.
I can only assume a retune is required as perhaps its gone off course or moved.
Its not a problem but I just wanted to make sure it wasn't our system. We have a max view free to air receiver. I could retune it but its bucketing down right now and fear I may loose what we already have.
Any ideas?
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Hi Just looked at a sample of the programs you have mentioned and they seem fine.... heavy rain will cause you to loose signals, but as you mention you have bbc1 etc your system would seem to be ok..... I can't comment on the channel frequencies mine up date automaticaly satandpcguy is the person to help you out john is very clever in that department....
Quote: 'We are currently in the Averyon region of the south of France',
and this is on the edge for reception of the Astra satellites.
Choice is:
1. Move North,
2. Get a bigger dish.
Both are probably not an option, so unfortunately you will have to do without the 'lost' channels until you move further North. No point retuning as the channels might appear in the channel listings but at best you will get 'no signal' on the TV.
There are charts available showing satellite reception in Europe but cannot find them at the moment, but RoadPro might have some on their site as Andy Harris has done a lot of research into satellite reception.
I see what your saying but I thought the south beam channels were the ones that you lost last and should work well south of here unless Im wrong which of course has been known.
They certainly worked much further south and east of here down in St Tropez and the Italian Lakes when the other BBC channels etc broke up if it rained.
Will see if I can find the foot print map later.
Cheers
BD
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Those channels you mention (True Movies, True Entertainment, The Vault , NME etc) changed their frequency in the last week.
They are now on
11307V 27500 2/3
So do a rescan of the new frequency and you should find them
It is assume the reason they moved these channels is becasuse their original frequency was prone to interference from DECT phones and wireless devices, which can cause pixelation and channel drop out.
So they moved frrequency.So do a rescan of the new frequency and you should find them
Incidently, the channels you mention are are on Eurobird.
Eurobird does not have a south beam.
It has a fixed and steerable beam.
And the new frequency for these channel is on the fixzed beam, which in southern fringe areas is harder to receive than the steerable beam.
Astra 2a and astra 2b have north and south beams.
Sky news is on an Astra 2 south beam
BBC1 and most ITV regions is on astra 2d single "spot beam". Astra 2d does notr have a north or south beam.
Those channels you mention (True Movies, True Entertainment, The Vault , NME etc) changed their frequency in the last week.
They are now on
11307V 27500 2/3
So do a rescan of the new frequency and you should find them
It is assume the reason they moved these channels is becasuse their original frequency was prone to interference from DECT phones and wireless devices, which can cause pixelation and channel drop out.
So they moved frrequency.So do a rescan of the new frequency and you should find them
Incidently, the channels you mention are are on Eurobird.
Eurobird does not have a south beam.
It has a fixed and steerable beam.
And the new frequency for these channel is on the fixzed beam, which in southern fringe areas is harder to receive than the steerable beam.
Astra 2a and astra 2b have north and south beams.
Sky news is on an Astra 2 south beam
BBC1 and most ITV regions is on astra 2d single "spot beam". Astra 2d does notr have a north or south beam.
Ah!
I knew you would know.
Im reluctant to rescan now though as its chucking it down and even the normal channels are going so Im worried they wont pick up at the moment.
If our Camos reciever is set to Astra 28 how come its picking up Eurobird channels then? Sorry Im clueless about stuff like this.
Looks like its DVD's or Motorhome Facts for the evening then!
Thanks
BD
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If our Camos reciever is set to Astra 28 how come its picking up Eurobird channels then? Sorry Im clueless about stuff like this.
Astra 2a, Astra 2b, Astra 2d are at 28.2
Eurobird is at 28.5
They are so close together that a single dish can receive both groups at the same time.
Both supply the UK with signals.
They have an "agreement" as both tried to claim the 28east slot..and this was a compromise, with each operator having certain frequency groups.
As both groups supply UK TV, most receivers, with a network scan, will update their frequency tables with all frequencies on all satellites.
Some receivers only say Astra2...some say only EB1...some say Astra2 / EB1.
Either way, if your receiver has it, ensure Network search is on, as that will make sure the receiver updates its frequency tables with the lastest frequency tables from the satellites streams...
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