Freesat in a Ultimo

[Stanman]

You can do or try and pick one up from Ebay for under £20 or less but make sure its still active

[Larry-G]

no free sat channels are as the name suggests are free only a few FTV channels need a card now. have you set up your tuner cards in the receiver correctly ?.

[Tropheus]

So I do need one to get Freesat to work.....

[Larry-G]

no you dont need a card to get the freesat channels such as channel 5 etc. but have you set up the tuner cards in the receiver ?.

[Stanman]

You need to be clear about freesat.
There is freesat

http://www.freesat.co.uk/

and these channels are avilable in SF bouquet and marked as FREESAT. nothing further is needed c

There is also

http://www.sky.com/shop/freesat/home/

these you will need a sky card, doe not need a valid subscription to work.

[Tropheus]

http://www.world-of-satellite.com/sh...907#post112907

>>>have you set up your tuner cards in the receiver correctly ?.

No I think that's were my problem is.... As I said before I am new to satellite and have a lot to learn....I have set the hard drive up and the network without any problems, my next step is setting up freesat

[Stanman]

Go Menu>Setup>services>tuner confiuration:

Simple
Single
28.2E
No

repeat the same for all tuners that have a cable connected, if not than just set them to loopthrough from A or which ever tuner has the cable connected to it.

[Larry-G]

i suspect you have not setup the tuners but i am not near a receiver to go through it with you. stanman on one of the others will post the instructions on how to set up the tuner cards.

[Tropheus]

Thanks for making it clear about Freesat and Sky Freesat.

None of the freesat channels work in the SF bouquet .... Guys please don't laugh I've got a feeling that I have set the satellite dish to 23.5E!!!

[punisher]

Just change it to 28.2e and save it for all the tuners and that should get you working

[Stanman]

Follow the instructions in post 22 and go to BBC1 and see if you can get a picture.

[Tropheus]

Guys thank you all so much for all of your help.

I had got the satellite setting wrong it was pointing to 23.5E ....

I changed that it it worked straight away... Freesat is now working!

[Larry-G]

cool, i'm happy your sorted.