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Hi all

Last night I set up my new free to air dish in the garden and pointed to what appeared to be the astra 2 satellite.  It picked up loads of channels, but i am unsure whether I am 100 percent correct in what I have done.

The first 10 channels are all derivitives of channel 4, e4 or film4.  There seem to be a variety off bbc1 channels further down the schedule.

Am I correct in thinking I can arrange so Bbc1 is on channel 1 etc or am I stuck with what I get given.

Also a number of the channels show girls with not much on talking down a microphone (I'm not complaining but the wife might have something to say).  Can I restrict the access?

Finally, should I be able to get Sky Sports News?

I realise a lot of questions but your help would be appreciated.

Ryan

Hi nbc2000

As Pete said you will only get the live sports events (premium channels) with a sky card and unfortunately you won't get sky sport news from Astra 2 as it's tied in with freeview, Rather unfortunate.

I'm in the same boat, I either have freeview and put up with not getting many channels or use my satellite which gives me hundreds of channels but not the one I really wany (sky sport news).

Good news for the mrs and kids though

Steve

One advantage of Satellite TV is that you can get your regional news channel if you should so wish and that is the reason why you get so many of what appears to be the same channel but they are actually the regional versions. What we do when we set it up is to make a note of the channels we want and just go to those rather than going all through every channel( the receiver should have a function to show you which channels have been loaded so its easy to scroll through rather than actually going through the channels on the TV)

David

Thanks for that

At least it sounds like i hit astra 2 at the first attempt!!!!!!

Ryan

http://www.dishpointer.com/

you can also use this,if I am going away I type in the location I am going to then write down the dirctions for the sat I want,then when on site I use a compass to roughly point the dish and then a signal metre to get it spot on,I have a Comag compact in a case model, it takes me about 10 mins all in to set up.

Has your reciever got a favourites button, if so you can put the channels you only want to watch in there and it makes it easy to find them.

                  Jim

Micky, Its not the suitcase one its a triax its this one

http://www.aerialshack.com/50cm-portable-satellite-dish-with-free-receiver-p-1174.html

I think I should be able to delete / filter

Ryan

We set our new Satgear satelite system up this weekend too.  It has the easyfind system so I could find the astra 2 pretty quickly and easier but I too was diappointed to realise I couldn't get Sky Sports News.

I used the filters to get rid of pay to view and put them in an order where we could all find what we wanted.

http://www.sateuropa.co.uk/information/free-to-air/uksatellite_channels.asp

This is your channel lists. You put them in whatever order you want as on mine, there is only approx 20 channels I have programmed as they are the only ones worth watching.