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    Can my aerial and dish share 1 cable?

    This forum is brilliant - ask a complex question and get superfast, intelligent advice from two expert sources. Many thanks to satelliteman and rolfw. :-worship As I mentioned, this was really urgent as we had an electrician/builder team coming in on the day of your advice. They couldn't get...
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    Can my aerial and dish share 1 cable?

    I'm really interested in this thread as tomorrow we are running new cables from the aerial and dish which are situated close together on a roof. I need to get the aerial supply to four different floors of the building, and the dish supply (twin LNB) to two of those floors. Was planning to...
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    Can't flash Dreambox 500 - no RS232 port and failing to network

    Many thanks to you both, MKHU and rolfw, for fabulous quick relvnt support and I am following up and will crack all these issues. Have now read up on FTP and downloaded Ipswitch and found a source for Gemini images. Just tried But since you mention it can I ask about DM500S clones. Mine...
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    Can't flash Dreambox 500 - no RS232 port and failing to network

    Newbie, dish recently set up and working on a Fortec Passion, and now this is day two of Dreambox 500S ownership. So far no joy. Please be gentle, think back to your own beginnings.... I assume the first thing is to flash it with either the latest official download or another image (I'm only...
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    Skew problem with Fortecstar LNB FSKUVN and Icecrypt 0.1db single LNB

    Rolf, I can only endorse what everyone else says. I bought this kit five weeks ago to be ready with HD for the Olympics. Was in despair as a newbie after putting it up on a terraced central London rooftop, and moving to new locations (!) every weekend trying to get better signals, and couldn't...
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