snipe satalite

Any "box" should work with any sat system. Sky or Fta

i have tried 2 of our sky boxes from the house but none of them will get a signal.keeps saying no satalite being recieved,i have a sat tuner built into my tv it works ok,but very hard to find regular stations when we are used to sky.i was looking to take my sat box from the house with the sky card to view the programs same as home

If I remember correctly there was a change made recently on the astra system.

The change was sent by OTA by sky to all their boxes as they are fixed dish systems. Mobile systems which are not permanently locked onto the satellite needed a software update. It didn't effect FTA systems.

George who I share storage with needed it done.

I think it was something to do with the dish looking for the old transponder. I am sure it could be done manually in the transponder settings if you knew how

George got his done by LTS who are advertisers on here.

any ideas how to do this pogonogo

Is it an older Snipe? The newer ones update automatically.

Well I was talking to Avtex, who make the Snipe, and they told me that it should automatically update, it's one of their selling points.

Try a FTA box and see if it works.
As I said previously in this thread, there is setting which must be changed in a sky box for mobile satellite systems.

Call Simon at LTS.

A big thanks to William Braden from Rossdowney Leisure Services for sorting out my snipe sat,brilliant job now,

it was a faulty control box,wasnt locking onto the GPS signal,really pleases with the snipe.Thanks also to everyone on this forum for all your help and ideas

got this email from supplier today and tried it in on my old controller and it worked a treat,maybe of use to anyone that has bought from europe

We have got a notice from the manufacturer Selfsat that all Selfsat Snipe delivered in July are not finding the satellite Astra. However, there is no need to worry. Unfortunately Selfsat has not asked the control units after the final tests to the European version. You can set on the European version of the controller itself. Press on the controller the two arrow keys at the bottom center until the upper left corner "Home" flashes. Then press the down arrow key until "User 3" flashes and then press the OK button. Then flashes / lights GPS top right. Now please turn off the controller. The next time the controller is programmed again in the Europe version. You do not need to repeat the search. in july as well.

You will not be able to get the likes of sky and bbc etc off the Astra satellite down to the south of France and Spain, you can however link in to other satellites to get English speaking channels. It also allows non English speakers to tune into the satellites which broadcast their channels of choice.