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can somebody reccomend a signal booster

Discussion in 'Digital TV - United States & Canada' started by kirit1, Mar 20, 2008.

  1. kirit1

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    my current set-up is an original sky mini dish with dreambox 5620s, naturally using CS, however the pictures regularly freeze on all channels regardless, so im looking for a way to counter this. so
    can someone reccomend a solution or a signal booster (if needed)
    cheers
     
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    although im grateful for your help my problem stems from picture freezing- as was seen on sky tv back in 2001 with the picture breaking up on screen
     
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    Yes above should sort it
     
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    A tv/cable booster is not working for satellite. Complete different frequency range.
    A inline 10db sat booster could work. A better idea would be to realign the dish.
     
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    I stand corrected ,Thanx ............Paul
     
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    have been on a certain fleebay website which sells inline sat amps/boosters and have noticed gains which either go to 18db or 20db

    which should i get considering

    my set-up is orig sky minidish connected straight to dreambox 5620s
     
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    If your reception previously was good it looks like a storm moved your dish a little bit.
     
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    not really mate, i used to have normal sky set-up (sky mini dish and digibox)

    i now use sky mini dish with dreambox 5620s- im doing card sharing

    the picture continually freezes

    please can u reccomend a solution via way of booster/ amplifier

    the storm hasnt moved the dish- it works fine with the pace digibox but picture freezes with the dreambox
     
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    Whats about the none scrambled channels. Do you get picture freezing at that channels via your 5620 box?
     
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    absolutely all the FTA channels often freeze eg BBC1- truthfully not as much as MTV base, but it freezes nonetheless
     
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