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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike Richards" data-source="post: 803684" data-attributes="member: 357784">I thought that the forum might like to hear about my recent disaster with my Magicsat system and, I hope, learn from my mistakes (!)Due to the odd way in which our dish is wired we recently managed to set off down an autobahn with the dish still vertical and facing into the direction of our travel. Several passing cars tried to alert me to the fact  that out 85 cm dish was clearly not in the parked position but I drove on oblivious for several miles. When I finally realised what they had been trying to tell me it was too late - the poor old dish had given up the unequal struggle against a sixty mile an hour headwind and fallen back to an unusual angle. Unable to drive on with it in that state I managed to squeeze out onto the roof through our Heki and, lacking any knowledge as to what else to do, I used the remote to park the dish. It did so but the dish was left sticking up of course. So Iundid the two nuts that hold the dish onto it's axle then, whilst it was still loose on it's axle, I set the dish flat and then retightend the two axle nuts. Upon asking the system to find Astra 28.2E I was alarmed, but not surprised, to find it could not and was displaying a message like "cannot connect to control". I assumed it was completely dead and I had killed it off so left it until I could find and drive to a Magicsat dealer in Holland. The agents were prepared to look at it immediately so we drove to their workshop straight away. On arrival the first thing they did was ask me to put the dish up to see what it would do and what message, if any, it gave out. To my utter astonishment the dish rose, searched and immediately locked onto Astra 28.2E to gave us an instant UK tv programme!So all was well. The only problem I had now was that when the engineer from the agent had suggested we try the system to see if would work I had foolishly said that it would not as a) the south east was shielded by their two storey building and b) there was a probably a mechanical fault after it had been abused my me, c) that it was a waste of time to try and d) if it worked I would give him a kiss.Me and my big mouth................So the moral of this story is a) make sure the dish is down, b) keep your mouth shut when faced with expert opinion and c) if you need help with your sat system in Holland go see the boys at Camper Tech in Hoogeheide. They are at Autobedrijf Peter Broos, Buitendreef 4, 4631 SV Hoogerheide, Tel 0164 - 673 358 or web site at _http://www.peterbroos.nl/Tell them I sent you. Mike RichardsPS Since getting our system to work again the other thing I have learnt to my cost is that patience is a virtue. After our "incident" onthe autobahn and the visit to Camper Tech we returned to the campsite and I put the dish up. It took ages to find Astra satellite then the Skybox told me that "no signal  was being received". Frustrated to hell I then checked all the criteria (which were correct). I returned to the front menu and, to my astonishment, the UK picture came in immediately. So now I have learnt to wait when the system says "no signal is being received". Just let it cook for a while and the signal comes in more often than not. There have been countless times when I have just accepted the message and given up in disgust. These occasions have often been when I have had a clear view of the sky. The system has defeated me and I have been ready to tear it off the roof. If only I had known the value of patience................[warning] Live Link disabled and fixed[/warning]</blockquote>

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