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France 24 News channel has disappeared

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    gigaday

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    About 48 hours ago France 24 which had previously been received perfectly says "Bad or no signal". I can find no reference on the Internet to the channel being off the air and nothing has changed on my receiver as far as I know. All other channels continue working as before.

    Also, my Menu skips over the Satellite / Tuning item preventing it from being selected.

    I am running Custom Firmware:v 4.1.2.

    Any ideas on what has happened?

    Tony

    | Tue 30 Jun 2015 8:52:23 #1 |
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    Welcome to our Forum

    Our member REPASSAC may no more, but I suspect it has moved to a transponder on new Astra satellite and therefore more tightly focussed on UK.

    Edit:

    Have Food Network (149) and CBS reality (135) for example also disappeared?

    | Tue 30 Jun 2015 9:16:58 #2 |
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    Cannot be sure but mu signal levels are about what I expect from a UK beam. I think all the UK beam levels are down a bit in this very hot weather, is this my imagination or could such non-rainy weather reduce reception in edge ares?

    Where are you located gigaday?
    Was your unit recording when you attempted the retune?

    Edit: hope the satellite TV sites catch up with these changes soon.

    | Tue 30 Jun 2015 10:18:18 #3 |
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    REPASSAC - 1 day ago  » 
    Cannot be sure but mu signal levels are about what I expect from a UK beam. I think all the UK beam levels are down a bit in this very hot weather, is this my imagination or could such non-rainy weather reduce reception in edge ares?
    Where are you located gigaday?
    Was your unit recording when you attempted the retune?
    Edit: hope the satellite TV sites catch up with these changes soon.

    Overheated LNB?

    | Wed 1 Jul 2015 11:08:15 #4 |
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    grahamlthompson - 4 minutes ago  » 
    Overheated LNB?

    Did not think of that - temperature reached 42c yesterday. Invero says "Operating Temperature - 30 °C ~ + 60 °C" However the LMB does get full sun - so overheating quite possible.
    Will do tests over a number of days.
    Thanks Graham.

    | Wed 1 Jul 2015 11:15:53 #5 |
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    Thanks everyone for your help.

    I did a re-tune (I think it must have been recording on the previous attempt) and succeeded in wiping all my channels, because with the poor signal level I received the "Invalid postcode" error.

    Fortunately my neighbour has a 180cm dish so I re-tuned using that.

    I think the frequency (mHz) of France 24 has changed since the previous tuning but even with the 180cm dish I did not get a watch-able picture. And on my smaller dish I get mostly nothing.

    Why do they want to be so precious about who can view their content? It's all on the Internet.

    Tony

    | Wed 1 Jul 2015 11:18:10 #6 |
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    Mike G

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    Hi

    I live in SW France have had no trouble with reception on 85cm dish even though it has reached 43c here

    | Thu 2 Jul 2015 10:44:04 #7 |
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    Mike G - 21 minutes ago  » 
    Hi
    I live in SW France have had no trouble with reception on 85cm dish even though it has reached 43c here

    I guess you must be further west than myself (32460) and the other poster.

    | Thu 2 Jul 2015 11:06:49 #8 |
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    REPASSAC - 1 day ago  » 

    grahamlthompson - 4 minutes ago  » 
    Overheated LNB?

    Did not think of that - temperature reached 42c yesterday. Invero says "Operating Temperature - 30 °C ~ + 60 °C" However the LMB does get full sun - so overheating quite possible.
    Will do tests over a number of days.
    Thanks Graham.

    Pretty warm here in Cyprus, it's me that's overheated here

    | Thu 2 Jul 2015 14:06:36 #9 |
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    Hi Repassac.

    I'm at 47250 and despite current heatwave no problems with reception

    | Sat 4 Jul 2015 4:53:16 #10 |

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