World Cup Rugby on free to air??

JMSE

I only have a free to air receiver, currently receiving astra2. I'm not subscribed to any service such as NTL or SKY.

When the rugby started last Friday I thought I was elected when it came up on ITV1, Saturday morning too I think the Wales game was on. But Sunday came and the rugby was moved onto ITV4 which I cant see on astra2.

Anyone know if theres a channel out there showing it on satellite FTA?

byte

You'll need to rescan channels on your receiver, as you should be able to receive ITV4 (it's on Astra 2D like all other ITV channels).

Maybe scan after 7pm, as ITV4 may not "tune in" when it's off air on some boxes.

steveon

if you have a sky box you should be able to view itv4 on channel 120 without a card.

If you cannot do the following
press services
press 4 (system setup)
press 4 (add channels)

input the following
freq 10758
Polarisation v
symbol rate 22
fec 5/6
highlight find channels and press select

you will see channels listed, highlight the ones you want and press yellow to place a tick besides them, when finished press select


now exit out of the menus
and press services again
press 6 other channels
highlight itv4 and press select.

hope that helps.

byte

Yep, as Steveon says.

I should've been more elaborate.

I was assuming your box was a standard FTA, and you should do an Auto Scan with Network Search (NIT) ON, so that it'll find frequencies it doesn't have pre-programmed already.

Or, just scan (or add if not already listed) the frequency posted by steveon (10758, V, Symbol 22000)

JMSE

Thanks lads,

I've got a ferguson free to air box, bought it from satellite.ie, no probs.

Anyway, I went in and did a multi-search (astra 2, 1 and hotbird) also selecting NIT on and it spent 10 mins scanning channels in, but then after saving data, I found the old setup remained, no channels had been overwritten in a new order and no new channels had appeared.

Also when I bought the gear I just searched under Astra 2 thinking a dish couldnt pick up more than 1 satellite without being moved but am I right in now thinking that Astra 1 will be received without moving the dish?? Hotbird didnt seem to want to be read.

Mossy Monk

Astra 1 and Astra 2 are in different orbital positions. Your dish would need to be moved to pick up channels on that.

byte

Usually, if channels found are already on the box, they're ignored. New channels usually end up at the end of the channel list.

There are 2 birds you can receive from - Astra 2 and Eurobird. Some FTA boxes have them both as one position, though I've seen others that list both seperately, and may need to be tuned seperately.

Anyway, this is irrelevant, as ITV4 is on Astra 2, which you have searched.

Manually scan that single frequency posted by Steveon. If the frequency isn't listed under Astra 2, add it and then scan it

JMSE

Just in from work so here goes again....

byte wrote:

There are 2 birds you can receive from - Astra 2 and Eurobird.

Do you mean without moving the dish? Havent seen any mention of eurobird on any of the setup menus for the receiver. I'm totally new to this but got the dish and receiver working handy enough a few weeks ago. I havent read any mags or anything so dont really have a clue whats out there beyond the clouds.

Whats the differ between Astra 2 and Astra 2D?

byte

Astra 2 constellation consists of Astra 2A, 2B and 2D. Astra 2C, which was stationed at 19E for a long while, is on it's way to join the other Astra 2's, if it's not there already. Eurobird is close by too, and can be received from same dish without moving it.

Astra 2D has a tighter beam than the others, beam focused primarily over UK and Ireland.

siobhan.murphy

I am currently subscribed to sky,(otherwise I cannot get any tv channels) but sick of the cost I am with them over 2 years, if I get free 2 air (how do I do that)???is at the races channel 415 still available to me,? also if I only have free to air can I subscribe to setanta without sky for racing u.k?
these questions hace probably been answerwd loads of times fo I'm sorry.
but thanks

dingding

Siobhan,

Turn off the sky box and remove the card. Turn it on again and see what chanels that you can get.

Mossy Monk

At The Races hasn't worked for me without a Sky subscription for some time now. And the question about subscribing to Setanta without Sky, yes you can.