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Apr 28, 2026 Last reply: 2 months ago 64 Replies

See my other reply too about doing a new scan (read it before this reply). As to Italy: Astra 28.5 East should work for Italy too. Your dish pointing, I presume you use UALS setting where you set you local coordinates before you scan? UALS automticaly calculates the dish east- west angle.

Here a picture of my 2 Chinese sat boxes, am using the small on on the right, the one the left is older and now functions as backup.

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Bought it from bol.com A review there was complaining about it being defective, but for me it works fine. But then .. Records on a small USB stick.

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A simple question, can you see BBC1 and BBC2 and BBC news? If not then you selected the wrong satellite?

Jan Panteltje snipped-for-privacy@comet.invalid schreef: |------------------------------------------------------------------| |"I did do a new scan with it a few weeks ago, | |Maybe you need to do that," | |------------------------------------------------------------------|

Dank u wel!

I did so many times in many ways over many months, including this month.

I used a Google-Android tablet to record a video to show you examples of options I tried and I can try. However this video-recording application uses an absurdly high resolution - i.e. producing more than 1 gigabyte per 10 minutes. I interrupted it at circa 31 minutes.

I am trying to use Bluetooth to upload this video to Windows 10 (to upload to a website), but this setup always fails to transfer more than a few hundred megabytes. It has not even copied 33% of this recording yet.

So I may resort to using a USB-data-transfer cable to upload it to GNU/Linux or Windows 11 later - but I need to travel to those machines and I am too busy now and maybe for the rest of today. This same USB-data-transfer cable which succeeds to upload data to GNU/Linux or Windows 11 also succeeds to charge via this Windows-10 computer but it fails to transfer data to this Windows-10 computer. We do not know why. We did look at anti-virus-software settings.

I do not know which of Bluetooth and Microsoft and Google to blame.

Google QuickShare is not better.

This Amiko box said this morning (as on other days): "Auto Installation

No Satellite Found!

100%".

|------------------------------------------------------------------| |" Astra 28.2 East often changes channels." | |------------------------------------------------------------------|

3 years ago this Amiko box used to show many channels, e.g. BBC Alba (but even then its EPG listing incorrecly used to call it some English BBC channel, and what its EPG listing incorrectly used to call BBC Alba is some (now inaccessible) different BBC channel).

Before I lost BBC Alba, this BBC used to display a warning that I was going to lose BBC Alba etc. because of not having an HD receiver, but after I lost these channels I used to be able to still receive BBC One NI HD etc.! However I lost BBC One NI HD etc. later.

Non-BBC channels also used to be imperfectly listed by its EPG. E.g. its EPG incorrectly used to call Legend Extra a horror channel.

All of these changes happened without being caused by me.

|------------------------------------------------------------------| |"Did you check the transponder frequency?" | |------------------------------------------------------------------|

I do not know what to do.

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"Your dish pointing, I presume you use UALS setting where you set you local coordinates before you scan?| |UALS automticaly calculates the dish east- west angle." | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

I did not do any of that. This satellite dish and this Amiko box and this TV set were left behind by the previous owner of this house (who has no intention of taking them off me). I do not knowingly have a manual for them, other than what I found on the Internet.

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"A simple question, can you see BBC1 and BBC2 and BBC news?" | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

I lost them!

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"If not then you selected the wrong satellite?" | |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Channels used to become changed - including becoming lost - without any action by me. I.e. I used to be able to receive them before I lost them without selecting a different satellite. (S.

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You need a HD receiver, most channels have now changed to HD. Do not upload long videos for me, I skip most HD stuff, am portable with a Huawei 4 G USB modem and a KPN 10 GB monthly limit subscription.

10 GB is more than enough occasional for Linux updates etc. Enough for 100% of interesting stuff. Movies and music I download via satellite! HD sat boxes are cheap, less than 50 Euro:
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Have not used any of these, but the big one I got from ebay more than 10 years ago..

Jan Panteltje snipped-for-privacy@comet.invalid schreef: |---------------------------------------------------------------| |"You need a HD receiver, most channels have now changed to HD."| |---------------------------------------------------------------|

This Amiko box used to be able to receive "HD" versions of BBC One and BBC Two. Is it possible that these versions are not really HD but that this EPG called them "HD"? (S.

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There is also DVB-S versus DVB-S2, a more compressing encoding. What can I say? screenshot just now:

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Maybe get a TV box like I have? Payed less than 50 Euro for it IIRC. Prices keep rising

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