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Loads of Coship decoders (type supplied by Telmicro) at the local auction, even had the cards with them..... not surprising that there were no bidders. Sky digiboxes with cards did sell though.

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i have been looking around some of the receiver tech sites, to see if it is possible to "patch" the firmware (software) in coship receivers (like you can with some other receivers) so that you can use it to read sky cards, and save people from having to buy a sky receiver, but have come up a blank,

it looks like you can only use it to view the free satellite channels only.

but if you do get a dish, go for two outputs and have a sky receiver for your main tv and the coship for another room....might as well make some use out of the apart from as a doorstop....

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Is the Wolsey the same as the Lacuna Mk 4? OK for DIY but could hardly be considered a professional tool.

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yes i am for real and not cry over it but lot are and time people woke up and smell the life , lots in here have say it dont waste you money on outher systems are the going same way , off air

dish and you have no problems , whats so hard about that you learn and dont make same misstake again

i have not lost any my 400 channels here ... why you ask ? i have a dish not that company that tock every one for there cash ....

there off air and that it

jurdy

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do you know how much one then thinks cost ? and out work builder would buy one then
i got laptops and sat finders and you name it
it not cheap game to get in two from builder setting the bace to iron works and dish

just put in 3 dishs and cost was 3,500 euros now there been used for radio
cables were 4.50 euros per meter not cheap but still there in 10 years time

not the diy system i work with ex arm Engineer who know there what there doing

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Wolsey/lacuna meter is a professional- quality meter and can achieve the best possible results as it can meter individual transponders on Astra2 and Eurobird.
My partner and I both have these meters and get excellent results in the Madrid area.
Of more value in judging an installer is the dish and LNB he chooses. The cowboys use cheap dishes, insubstantial mountings and cheapest possible LNBs, which typically fail after a few years. Anyone wanting a new installation should insist on a good quality dish such as Prodelin, ASC signal (ChannelMaster) or Gibertini, and an Invacom LNB.

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Yes, I have a Prolink 4C Premium.

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Being just a dum blond, how do I get 2 outputs for my dish, I know I have one. Also, how do you reprogramme the Co-ship box to pick up freeview. I have a Sky box connected to my main TV, how do I connect the Co-ship box to the tele in the bedroom?

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you will need to get a twin output LNB for your dish - in my opinion invacom C120 are best or prime focus dishes, but depending on your dish will determine the type of LNB you require - there are prime focus dishes (LNB is focussed on the centre of the dish) and offset where the LNB is focussed at an angle to the dish.

you will then need to run a cable from the second output to the reciever second location - in your case the bedroom and connect the receiver to the TV via scart.

in theory, you need to go to the main menu of the reciver, select astra 2 or eurobird (satellites at 28.3 or 28.5) and do a scan of the channels - selecting the FTA (freetoair) option so that it picks up only the free channels. however, in some cases TM may have disabled access ot the menu via a PIN and so you will need to know this to access channels - some recivers - i dont know about the coships, do have a manual factory reset button on the motherboard (most laptops pc do also, you just have to locate it and you can disable any passwords that lock access to the BIOS!)

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most laptops pc do also, you just have to locate it and you can disable any passwords that lock access to the BIOS

I can assure you that is not the case, PC's yes they are piece of piss to remove a p/w,

However even a Bios password on laptop is not that simple to remove, the majority of lappies are different, but the Top Level names I deal with are certainly far from simple

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i did say most, and i know that it is not that simple - having to remove all the plastic surrounds and keyboard to move a switch that is 1mm thick and hidden underneath the insides and then putting it all back together is a pain!!

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This switch is a myth, there is no such thing, say a Dell laptop well it can be done with a paperclip, but a Tosh Fuji Lenovo or HP will on many occasion require a EEPRom change, or flash - laptops carry the basics of PC's but they have a lot more security issues in place.

Honestly mate, you dont get switches on laptops and the days of sticking something in the back is well gone.

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well the mythical switch definatley has work on two laptops that i have had in from people who locked themselves out of their BIOS by forgetting their password - i cannot remember the make and models tho..but this looks like have something similar

http://www.laptop-repair.info/acer_bios_password.html

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Probably old laptops mate, but like I say anything Top level and I would not include Acer in that is not possible.

Goverments for a start wouldnt buy them if it was that easy, speak as you find for sure, but im my everyday job I deal with this.

anyway I suggest we leave it and get back to on topic, lol

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Thanks for all the info, I think I understand it all. Is it possible to get the freeview through the Co-ship box and mesh aerial or is that aerial no good now? Do you need to leave the Telmicro card in the box or do you take it out?

Sorry, still being a bit dumb!