I bought a Golden Media 9080

mprop

at the suggestion of the power city man. The instruction manual is more useful as a door stop!

I went into the settings and did the auto tune - which gave me channel 4 5 times, about 6 versions of BBC 1 & 2 and it didnt give me RTE 1, 2, TV3 and TG4 - which I was told I would get, they have dollar signs on it...

I got a friend to look at it too who is quite good with this kind of thing and he couldnt follow it at all either!

I basically have BBC1, 2, E4, E4 +1, Ch 4, Ch4 +1. As I said the Irish ones have dollar signs beside it.

I have the sky sattelite plugged into the back of it and I have the old roof ariel plugged in to the back too. The ariel when plugged straight into the tv (sony bravia) the reception is crap.

If anyone could help me tune it in properly so I get all the channells that I am supposed to I would really appreciate it!

charlie1966

You have only tuned the satellite channels, you need to do a terrestrial scan too.
The reason you have more than one C4 and BBC 1&2 is that on satellite you get all the regional versions.

mprop

charlie1966 wrote: »

You have only tuned the satellite channels, you need to do a terrestrial scan too.
The reason you have more than one C4 and BBC 1&2 is that on satellite you get all the regional versions.

I tried to do a search on terrestrial and it finds no channels?

zagmund

As Charlie says - you will get multiple Channel4, BBC & ITV channels because there are multiple versions carried on the satellite. This is normal. You then need to get a channel editor and move all the duplicates out.

z

mprop

zagmund wrote: »

As Charlie says - you will get multiple Channel4, BBC & ITV channels because there are multiple versions carried on the satellite. This is normal. You then need to get a channel editor and move all the duplicates out.

z

Thanks - that would leave me with about 10 channels, is that all I get? I was given a sheet with a huge list of about 80 channels...

zagmund

Nope, I retuned my box (not the same one as yours) yesterday and picked up about 290 channels. These are all carried on the one satellite (or set of sats) so if I can pick them up you should be able to also.

In order for this to happen your dish needs to be correctly aligned - how do you know it is pointed correctly ?

What satellite are you trying to tune on the box - it should be Astra 28.2.

z

charlie1966

You should have a lot more channels than that. Stating the obvious I know. Dish maybe slightly out of alignment. What is the signal and quality levels like? Quality being more important.

As for terrestrial, was your analogue signal ever good?

watty

You should have about 200, mostly junk, but about 40 decent ones

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free-to-air_channels_in_the_UK

mprop

zagmund wrote: »

Nope, I retuned my box (not the same one as yours) yesterday and picked up about 290 channels. These are all carried on the one satellite (or set of sats) so if I can pick them up you should be able to also.

In order for this to happen your dish needs to be correctly aligned - how do you know it is pointed correctly ?

What satellite are you trying to tune on the box - it should be Astra 28.2.

z

Nope - sorry I should have said I have a sky sattelite dish on the building which I have connected it to. Do I have to change the direction?

charlie1966

mprop wrote: »

Nope - sorry I should have said I have a sky sattelite dish on the building which I have connected it to. Do I have to change the direction?

No you shouldn't have to unless it wasn't aligned correctly when it was installed or has moves since it was used last.

mprop

charlie1966 wrote: »

You should have a lot more channels than that. Stating the obvious I know. Dish maybe slightly out of alignment. What is the signal and quality levels like? Quality being more important.

As for terrestrial, was your analogue signal ever good?

No - there is a big old aerial on the roof - seriously its huge, it should pick up alien signals! I live in the ground floor/basement of a big old georgian house.

charlie1966

mprop wrote: »

No - there is a big old aerial on the roof - seriously its huge, it should pick up alien signals! I live in the ground floor/basement of a big old georgian house.

Would suspect that you are not connected to that big old aerial on the roof or there is a bad join or connection somewhere. Also if it's an old aerial then the cable is probably old too. The cable should be twin screened cable(ie the outer wire should have foil and braided wire in it) You can have difficulty if its not.

mprop

charlie1966 wrote: »

Would suspect that you are not connected to that big old aerial on the roof or there is a bad join or connection somewhere. Also if it's an old aerial then the cable is probably old too. The cable should be twin screened cable(ie the outer wire should have foil and braided wire in it) You can have difficulty if its not.

Ok thanks. Would you have any suggestions as to what I should do to improve the amount of channels I get on the sky satelite and with the terrestrial?

charlie1966

mprop wrote: »

Ok thanks. Would you have any suggestions as to what I should do to improve the amount of channels I get on the sky satelite and with the terrestrial?

Firstly I will say that it is worth pursuing with. FTA is good when set up properly. You would probably be better getting a professional to sort it out for you. Aerial on the roof is not a DIY job and someone with the correct equipment should be able to sort it out quickly for you. I know it may not be quite what you wanted to hear but it is the best advice I can give.

zagmund

mprop wrote: »

Ok thanks. Would you have any suggestions as to what I should do to improve the amount of channels I get on the sky satelite and with the terrestrial?

Make sure you are tuning the correct satellite. When you enter the tuning menu does it ask you to select a satellite - things like Astra (there are a few), Hotbird, Turksat, etc . . .

Make sure you have selected Astra 28.2.

z

mprop

zagmund wrote: »

Make sure you are tuning the correct satellite. When you enter the tuning menu does it ask you to select a satellite - things like Astra (there are a few), Hotbird, Turksat, etc . . .

Make sure you have selected Astra 28.2.

z

Thanks everyone - I will check that out tonight!

charlie1966

On the terrestrial front you could try an indoor aerial near a south facing window. You might pick up the DTT channels. It's a long shot as you are in a basement app in D2.

On the satellite front I would suspect you are on the correct satellite option from the channels you are receiving. The Golden Media I think come pretuned to Astra 28 as standard. No harm checking though.

Lacwood

Hi
I googled the box youre talking about as I wanted to buy something and landed on this thread. If you are still having problems I suspesct your problems are twofold , 1. your terrrestrial ariel is probably for analogue and not suited to DTT, newer smaller ariels will pick up both. 2. your satellite dish is slightly out of alignment, which is easily corrected with a meter bought for a few euro in lidl or ebay. you have probably sorted it by now anyway;)

elainerut

Can some of ye plz tell me more about this satelitte option. . . . Have sky at mo but want to change to this. What's it called and where do I get it.