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    Happy 10th birthday to the BBC's Red Button. Do you press it?

    I use it for sports and concerts,quite useful. I use text a lot but am disappointed with the speed. Why is the BBC and Sky text so slow? Bring back fastext :)
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    Cyprus - Surge Arrester Didn’t Protect Digibox

    You'll be lucky.They will probably give you an Amstrad.
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    Newspaper ads

    FREE YORKSHIRE TERRIER. 8 years old. Hateful little dog. Bites. FREE PUPPIES: 1/2 Cocker Spaniel, 1/2 sneaky neighbor's dog. FREE PUPPIES: Part German Shepherd, part stupid dog. FREE GERMAN SHEPHERD 85 lbs. Neutered. Speaks German. FOUND DIRTY WHITE DOG. Looks like a rat...been out a while...
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    Cyprus Reception

    :confused: My ears are burning .
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    The Genie

    It appears as the first one (PaulR)to me.
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    channel 4

    Mallouppas do not supply 2.7m prime focus dishes anyway.they do the 2.4 famaval and the andersen 2.4 offset
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    channel 4

    Looking at your dishcan you tell if it is oval or round?on a round dish the three arms that support the lnb are spaced out equally like a tripod and are fixed on an inner circle with the fixing screws.On an oval dish the three supporting arms are attached to the edge of the dish,with one right...
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    new set up of sky in cyprus

    Has your card switched on yet?
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    sky in cyprus

    ERT sat is on hotbird .you can get in on a 1m dish but it is the same as ert that we receive on a normal tv aerial.
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    Channel 5 missing !!

    Possibly because we are having signal problems on ch4 sky two three etc which i think is on the north beam,but five is not affected
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    lose channels when raining

    If there are heavy rain clouds in the direction that your dish is pointed to,you will lose channels,bbc/itv going off first as they are the weakest then ch4 sky two/three ,movies etc and if its cats and dogs,everything goes.This is a fact of life over here.Best thing to do is switch to 501 sky...
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    Channel 4 problems in Cyprus(or anywhere else?)

    Ch4 has been very week lately,different reports are no signal,losing in the evenings or losing during the day,along with sky three and two.seems to be a satellite problem.maybe you can get your dish checked by a professional,or try a better lnb.Or go for a bigger dish.Do you get bbc/itv? Ps...
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    weather problems....

    Another problem for you Carleen is that you are on the wrong side of the island.Your 2.7 would get bbc/itv all day in Paphos. 4.2m dishes are all the rage round your way lately. Bignick is right about not having plastic covers on your feedhorn,so the other problem is spiders.:)
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    Anyone knows what this dish is?

    You would need a very big truck to take that dish away(if they are still there);)
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    Channel 4 problems in Cyprus(or anywhere else?)

    It seems the ch4 problem isgetting worse.Those who were getting break up on friday have no signal on saturday(including me on my 3m today)
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