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munkonminor Full Member Offline Posts: 145 Location: Els Ports Joined: May 21^st, 2005 Gender:	Anyone use Freesat ? Mar 31^st, 2011 at 10:26am	Print Post
	Does anyone use a freesat box ? If so what is the reception like ?


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chrispain Ex Member	Re: Anyone use Freesat ? Reply #1 - Mar 31^st, 2011 at 10:30am	Print Post
	Yes we have one, compares well with the sky box we had before although in the last few weeks we have lost ITV in the evennings for some reason.


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hazelnut Ex Member	Re: Anyone use Freesat ? Reply #2 - Mar 31^st, 2011 at 11:29am	Print Post
	Yes reception good now we have upgraded to a 1.3metre dish but before with a 90cm dish reception dropped off in the evenings!!


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Ritaratbag God Member Offline Forum newbie Posts: 2670 Joined: Jun 28^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Anyone use Freesat ? Reply #3 - Mar 31^st, 2011 at 1:14pm	Print Post
	Yes, we had same problem here, so had to have a bigger dish installed a couple of weeks ago. Also a few friends have aswell. No problems now, even when it rained the other week!


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munkonminor Full Member Offline Posts: 145 Location: Els Ports Joined: May 21^st, 2005 Gender:	Re: Anyone use Freesat ? Reply #4 - Mar 31^st, 2011 at 1:35pm	Print Post
	Thanks for replies - does it matter what postcode you enter during set-up ? Or does that simply set your "home" region ?


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Bigyin God Member Offline Onwards and Upwards !! Posts: 1283 Location: Santa Barbara Joined: Feb 19^th, 2008 Gender:	Re: Anyone use Freesat ? Reply #5 - Mar 31^st, 2011 at 1:40pm	Print Post
	Never seen the requirement to enter a postcode. You just align the dish accurately with the satellite and download all the channels then delete the ones you don't want. All the regions will be there.

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munkonminor Full Member Offline Posts: 145 Location: Els Ports Joined: May 21^st, 2005 Gender:	Re: Anyone use Freesat ? Reply #6 - Mar 31^st, 2011 at 2:55pm	Print Post
	I have a Humax HD box in the UK and you have to enter a valid postcode during setup, I entered it incorrectly the first time and it bounced me back to enter again.


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Bigyin God Member Offline Onwards and Upwards !! Posts: 1283 Location: Santa Barbara Joined: Feb 19^th, 2008 Gender:	Re: Anyone use Freesat ? Reply #7 - Mar 31^st, 2011 at 3:19pm	Print Post
	I just looked up this page for Humax setup and you're right. http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/humaxfoxsat.html Don't know why that should be necessary. If it rejected your incorrect one it must have a stored database I presume. If you intend using it out here, I'd just put in a valid UK postcode and then look at what it says on the page at the link about setting up other non Freesat channels. There's no way that the box can know where it's physically located.

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Michael Senior Member Offline Village Idiot Posts: 496 Joined: May 23^rd, 2006 Gender:	Re: Anyone use Freesat ? Reply #8 - Mar 31^st, 2011 at 9:20pm	Print Post
	We use a FreeSat here and it works well. Setting the postcode simply gets that region's version of BBC1 or ITV etc relevant to the postcode. Please note that the Humax box requires a pre-amp in the form of a cheap satellite decoder from Lidl whereas the cheap and cheerful Grundig box seems to be OK without this. As with all satellite TV here the bigger the dish the better. Size matters... so strap Jodrell Bank to your house in a wind shadow if you can.


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ginestargal Ex Member	Re: Anyone use Freesat ? Reply #9 - Mar 31^st, 2011 at 9:45pm	Print Post
	i am prob being very thick here, but do you mean an actual freesat box or just a set top digibox? thanksx


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Bigyin God Member Offline Onwards and Upwards !! Posts: 1283 Location: Santa Barbara Joined: Feb 19^th, 2008 Gender:	Re: Anyone use Freesat ? Reply #10 - Mar 31^st, 2011 at 10:17pm	Print Post
	A set top digi box. Freesat is just a collection of channels carried on the same satellite as Sky.

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ginestargal Ex Member	Re: Anyone use Freesat ? Reply #11 - Apr 1^st, 2011 at 8:14am	Print Post
	thank you much appreciated, so which satellite do you point at for setting the dish up? many thanks for the patience lol


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hazelnut Ex Member	Re: Anyone use Freesat ? Reply #12 - Apr 1^st, 2011 at 8:36am	Print Post
	See Nigels April the 1st Post on the News Section it will tell you where to Direct your Satellite dish!!


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Nigel YaBB Administrator Offline Living here and loving it! Posts: 1234 Location: Raval de Crist Joined: Mar 23^rd, 2005 Gender:	Re: Anyone use Freesat ? Reply #13 - Apr 1^st, 2011 at 8:45am	Print Post
	Astra 2 at 28.8 degrees. You can find which way on www.dishpointer.com but a small variation can make a big difference! I align/realign dishes if it's of interest. Nigel


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Bigyin God Member Offline Onwards and Upwards !! Posts: 1283 Location: Santa Barbara Joined: Feb 19^th, 2008 Gender:	Re: Anyone use Freesat ? Reply #14 - Apr 1^st, 2011 at 11:28am	Print Post
	If you're not confident about aligning the dish I'd strongly reccomend seeking Nigel's assistance because the LND will probably also need tweaking for optimum reception and the cable and connections are important as well.

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