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    Octo lnb with multiswitch

    Thanks Tesla, for your interesting comments and suggestions. Unfortunately I have no test equipment to do that sort of thing and in honesty I don't feel I OUGHT to make all that effort to get something that ought to work, work. :-) I feel the problem lies with Sky only and maybe their design...
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    Octo lnb with multiswitch

    Nope. Tried that with just one input but not a dicky-bird comes through to the Skybox. I have given up on getting it to work with the Skybox. At the moment I am using a 'hybrid' connection. With two direct feeds from the Octo LNB straight to the Skybox. Plus four feeds from the Octo going to...
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    Octo lnb with multiswitch

    Hi Robbo. No, it's fully automatic. Only switch available is for switching a 12v feed to the terrestrial input for powering a mast-head amp. Cheers.
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    Octo lnb with multiswitch

    Having connected the Optima 5x12 Q2 multiswitch up. I am having problems with Sky receiver. As mentioned, I have an Octo LNB on a large dish for 28.2E satellite reception. My intention was to use four of the eight universal LNB outs to feed the multiswitch. Having first ascertained that this...
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    Octo lnb with multiswitch

    Thanks Robbo. Since then, I have actually connected it all up and can confirm the 'spare' outputs on the Octo do work so all is sweet. :-) Cheers. Barry
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    Octo lnb with multiswitch

    Half-answered actually. It said the rest of the Octo would be 'going to waste'. I just wondered if that meant they would be disabled (and thus unusable) because of the multiswitch operating on the other four. Thanks. barry
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    Octo lnb with multiswitch

    Hi. I have an Octo LNB for Astra 2 feeding four receivers (dual tuners). I wish to use an Optima MS512 5 x 12 multiswitch to provide additional Astra 2 feed pairs and I read that this box will accept a 'regular' Quad LNB input as well as the Quattro type. What I am asking is, could I use...
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    Can't do blind scan on Technomate 6800HD Super

    Found it! Downloaded Clark-tech. I've modified channel list to delete all TP's on two Sats I would never get, then re-inserted the channal data in the Techno and yes, I can now do a blind scan again! I will remove a lot more TPs this way to make room for future blind scans. Many thanks for...
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    Can't do blind scan on Technomate 6800HD Super

    Don't know about that one iwol. Any details? Cheers. barry.
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    Can't do blind scan on Technomate 6800HD Super

    Hi Pedro, Yes I think I did do a reset once and was surprised to find the sats all still tuned in (Diseq 1.2 positions). And as I said in my first posting, for some weird reason the TM won't let me delete any TP's. If it would I am sure all my problems would be solved as you say there are a...
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    Can't do blind scan on Technomate 6800HD Super

    Hi Pedro I use Diseq 1.2 on my two motor dishes. I hate USALs, both unreliable and spoils all the fun. So doing a factory reset would mess this up a bit as I didn't want to have to tune them in again at this point in time. I was thinking of maybe deleting all channels on each sat and doing a...
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    Can't do blind scan on Technomate 6800HD Super

    Hi Pedro. I could experiment anyway without saving because I would prefer to rescan all again I think as there may be some TP' s that have come along since anyway. Fire away if you have any suggestions. Cheers. Barry. ps. Drove past your big dish today actually :-)
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    Can't do blind scan on Technomate 6800HD Super

    I had this receiver a few months ago and commenced doing blind search on about 15 sats. It went fine, but just trying a sixteenth sat it will no longer work. It comes up with 'TP memory full' or something. I have a grand total of about 6500 channels so there must be memory left. I tried...
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    Latest SAB Explorer firmware.

    Thanks. I'll give it a try later. Barry
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    Latest SAB Explorer firmware.

    I just got hold of an oldish SAB Explorer PVR SC receiver and the firmware is dated 2006 (IC80v1.05 May 2006). Does anyone know where I can download the latest firmware for this machine? Thanks. Barry.
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