Re: Channel Five FTA ?

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:44:32 +0000, Mark Carver
<mark.carver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Charles Ellson wrote:

C5 seems to have gone FTA (12305MHz).
H or V Pol ? what bird ? 'coz there's nothing at either polz at 28E
according to my Sky box, and Lyngsat seems down at time of posting too.
12305MHz (12304 on Lyngsat) 27500 HOR 2/3

What a difference 1 MHz makes, yes got the t/p now...

I've got five coming through on my FTA Technomate (i.e. no CAM
involved). One ("five TT2" V:513 A:661 P:8190 D:577) is showing as
"Others" encryption present but the other four are not showing any
encryption present so maybe the weekend cleaner has unplugged the
scrambling machine so that (s)he can put the kettle on.

Nuffink receivable on my Sky Box, I get the 'five T2 REG2', but get the
'Technical Fault Try Later' banner when I try to select.

In that case it looks like C5 is behaving like the BBC interactive
channels which can be tuned using a proper satellite receiver but not
on a DodgyBox except via the red button route (i.e. not via "Other
Channels"). It definitely looks the FTA is unintentional then.
.