oyster satellite repairs

I Googled your thread title and it produced dealers/repairers in Northants. Lincolnshire  and Wakefield.

MHFacts or other MH forums would certainly have a few experts if no real assistance here.

Have no personal experience but hope the above helps

look up www.jacksonsuk.com who has a wealth of knowledge. the site also has details of re-aligning for Astra2 or details of their service to reprogram control if required.

What issues are you having?

I have just been setting mine up to receive Intelsat 907 so I can have BBC in Spain so been doing a lot of research. If its programming ie not finding the satellite I may be able to help you input new co-ordinates

Stewart

I always use Oyster-Sat Tech Ltd. Tel:01858 575 928.

They will guide you through the update process over the phone and also do software updates for which you need to send them your box.

Last time I had it done it was £38.75.

Very helpful company and a pleasure to deal with.

Not familiar with Intelsat 907.

Are the programmes encrypted? 

Hi Stewart, very interested in this as we have purchased a "Icecrypt" box so we can use Intelsat 907 when we are in Spain next. We got details off someone who full times out there when we were out last year. Haven't had the chance yet to try it out abroad, did you have any problems getting it set up. OH has tried it here but we are out of range for it, we know the box works just not in range to pick it up.

So it's encrypted.

Thanks.

Sorry yes they are encrypted. Once the box is bought though that's it no further costs involved.

Hi Tammygirl,

Sounds like you have ventured down the same road as I did. I bought an Icecrypt box and followed all the advise on the various websites. I was unsure how I would actually manually point the Oyster in the correct direction so opted to look into programming the Oyster to do it for me. Its a very simple process and I basically followed the process outlined in the link above to Jackson Satellites posted by Rowen1. This process is how you change your frequencies for Astra 2 when the sat owners changed them a few years ago. However, the process is the same. We never use hotbird, so I went in and changed the frequency to Instalsat Frequency 11495. You will see on the Jackson instructions that it requests you set up 4 co-ordinates. Intelsat only has one co-ordinate as all Freeview channel use the same frequency. The reason for selecting 4 for Astra (who uses a number of differing frequencies per channel) is in the event a frequency is changed. The Oyster then searches for the next one on the list with the hope being 1 of the 4 wont have changed an you will find your satellite.

Follow the instructions on Jacksons  website using the following details-

Frequency - 11495

Pol - V

Symbol - 44100

FEC 9

On the subject of the Icecrypt box, did you update the firmware to the latest version and have you entered the BISS code?

I should add for anyone else reading this the watching of Freesat on Intelsat 907 is illegal and the BUSS Codes to allow you to do this which are available on the internet can change at anytime with no guarantee of being able to continue viewing.

It is all explained here:

http://www.astra2sat.com/technical/reception-of-british-tv-radio-overseas/bbc-satback/icecrypt-s1600chd-for-intelsat-907-at-27-5-west/

I am in no way an expert but it has all worked out well for me .

Good luck

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Tammygirl,

Just read your post again and you mention you are "out of range" assuming you are in the UK you should not have no issues picking it up after all that is the sole purpose of Freeview on Intelsat 907 it is the emergency back up system for the UK Freesat if the repeater stations were to fail.

Best to work the issues here than in Spain