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
the fat controller
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Gender: Location: Moira, Craigavon Age: 60 Homepage:fincaangelacat.com Posts: 9454 Registered: 04 / 2012 My Motorhome: Benimar Tessoro 481 Base Vehicle: Ford Transit
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.
As a snipe owner your sat box must be switched to send power from the sat box to the dish. If this is switched off your dish will not receive a signal.
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Sorry, I don't use a sky box mine is lidl,s best. However, some where in the sky menu,s you will see an option to power the dish. Also have you updated the snipe from their website for the latest satellite positions.
got home today did a full upgrade on the snipe,still no better,not locking on to any of the sats,only worked marginally twice wile we were away a t the weekend.think its near time it was aff the roof and the ole trusty aerial put back on
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.
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.
jonny.i
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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.
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