Terrestrial Tuner USB Stick works with Vu+ Duo

N1501

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Fracarro Penta 85 Brick Red Aluminium Dish,
Inverto Black Ultra 0.2 dB Single Output LNB,
TM-2600 Super H-H Motor,
Vu+ Duo DVB-S2 receiver,
Stock Vu+ image V7,
Labgear PF100 cable,
Atlanta ASF304+ Sat-Finder,
4:2:2 VLC / Ubuntu,
53E to 45W
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51.8ºN, 0.0ºW East Hertfordshire
In 2008 I bought an elgato eyetv for DTT USB Stick for my Mac computer. I hoped it might work with transmissions from Crystal Palace but found the signals were too weak.

Having only one LNB on my dish, with two tuners ( A set to USALS, B set to loop-through ) I can record one channel and watch anything else on the same satellite as long as it has the same frequency band and polarization. With the abundance of regional variations on Freesat I can usually watch what I want whilst recording something different. For the odd occassion when I can't I thought I'd try the tuner stick and to my suprise it worked.

I'm using Vu's official V7.0 image and under Tuner C, set to Europe, the stick shows up as Nova-T Stick (DVB-T). My aerial, 8 element, ( and cable ) are at least 20 years old. The Duo does not report an SNR but shows AGC as 39% ( My Mac shows Signal Quality 20%, Signal Strength 36% ). Duo tuned into C61 794 MHz - our old ITV analogue slot. I realise that this will change again this Wednesday 18th April 2012 when the remaining analogue channels get switched off. The DTT picture suffers from occassional break-up but its not worth upgrading the UHF aerial/cable.
 

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Well if you get occasional breakup now, it should be fine after the 18th if you are receiving from Crystal palace, as the transmission strength will go from 20KW to 200KW, but if you are/were receiving anything on channel 61, it's not from Crystal palace. It'll be from Hertford transmitter _http://www.ukfree.tv/shutdowndetail.php?tx=TL320137
 

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My Satellite Setup
Fracarro Penta 85 Brick Red Aluminium Dish,
Inverto Black Ultra 0.2 dB Single Output LNB,
TM-2600 Super H-H Motor,
Vu+ Duo DVB-S2 receiver,
Stock Vu+ image V7,
Labgear PF100 cable,
Atlanta ASF304+ Sat-Finder,
4:2:2 VLC / Ubuntu,
53E to 45W
My Location
51.8ºN, 0.0ºW East Hertfordshire
I originally tried Crystal Palace as our local relay ( Hertford ) was not transmitting DTT at the time.
Hertford is now transmitting one Mux since April 4th. After 18th will transmit 3 Muxes I think , Freeview Lite .
 

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Berkshire
May be worth a retry on Crystal palace after Wednesday, but the Hertford transmitter is rising from 2W to 50W, so should see a better signal.
 
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