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<blockquote data-quote="freeme3" data-source="post: 1054004" data-attributes="member: 412547"><p>We shall have to disagree on your overall assessment although I agree with parts of it!! I did not &quot;mislabel&quot; anything - the box did, although I do own to being a novice! Different satellites may well use the same frequencies, and I can see from Mariust5's comment above that, as there is no way I could obtain the BADR satellite signal in Europe, duplicate usage of frequencies by such satellites makes entire sense. However, the box came preloaded with satellite information and it clearly was receiving from the dish signals that were of a frequency, polarisation etc as being compatible in its view of having been broadcast by BADR. It showed the signal being higher in strength and quality than the satellite at 28E. No other satellites further away from28 East showed any quality of signal. I assume the box looks at the signals it receives and matches this information with the list of pre-installed satellites and makes a guess at what it has found - hence the suggested Astra and BADR. I believe&nbsp; the receiver's firmware predates the launch of the latest Astra satellites and was picking up signals from astra 2E and 2G but could only label them as from its own pre-existing list of satellites - which only had one at 28East. I would think that it is technically feasible for each satellite to have a unique id signal, even if it uses the same frequencies as others to transmit. If this is so than my box has not the capability to use that info effectively, possibly because the info it holds is out of date. So if the box tells me that it is receiving a strong, high quality signal from a satellite, when in fact it is not, then it is the box misleading me and not vice versa! PS I do thank you for the technical info.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="freeme3, post: 1054004, member: 412547"] We shall have to disagree on your overall assessment although I agree with parts of it!! I did not "mislabel" anything - the box did, although I do own to being a novice! Different satellites may well use the same frequencies, and I can see from Mariust5's comment above that, as there is no way I could obtain the BADR satellite signal in Europe, duplicate usage of frequencies by such satellites makes entire sense. However, the box came preloaded with satellite information and it clearly was receiving from the dish signals that were of a frequency, polarisation etc as being compatible in its view of having been broadcast by BADR. It showed the signal being higher in strength and quality than the satellite at 28E. No other satellites further away from28 East showed any quality of signal. I assume the box looks at the signals it receives and matches this information with the list of pre-installed satellites and makes a guess at what it has found - hence the suggested Astra and BADR. I believe the receiver's firmware predates the launch of the latest Astra satellites and was picking up signals from astra 2E and 2G but could only label them as from its own pre-existing list of satellites - which only had one at 28East. I would think that it is technically feasible for each satellite to have a unique id signal, even if it uses the same frequencies as others to transmit. If this is so than my box has not the capability to use that info effectively, possibly because the info it holds is out of date. So if the box tells me that it is receiving a strong, high quality signal from a satellite, when in fact it is not, then it is the box misleading me and not vice versa! PS I do thank you for the technical info. [/QUOTE]

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