Roger, (cue the usual anecdote at this point "This is what I love about computer standards - there are so many of them to choose from!" ) I think you need to be certain what slots you have - most new

upgrade to Win2k or even NT4 ? ;-}

Goetz, Is this possibly confusion with the new chargeable service which I understand DWD will use to transmit Met Charts & analyses (which we used to receive via HF radio) digitally via Hotbird ? Dave

David, I think the answer to all your questions is "yes" ..... The first generation of satellite used widely for communications at sea were the Inmarsat series which carried their analogue "Inmarsat-A

what OS Roger?

Basil, as a personal view I would not use XP, especially for the 'receiver' PC Whenever I require a stable machine I use Win2k (and in fact I have upgraded a number of machines from XP to W2k ! ) I'm

Robert - it *may* not (just) be a case of letting the hardware cool, but also a case of ensuring everything is switched off and letting all the supplies discharge down to zero so that everything genui

If it's a spin-stabilized bird, and not 3-axis stabilised, I wonder if the simplest way to change orbital slot E - W might be to leave it spinning totally undisturbed and just change the orbital perio

yes Alan, I know what you mean ! I've upgraded several machine from Win XP to Win 2k to get stability XP appears, at times, to be "too" intelligent and/or goes for a walk by itself in the woods to pic

Maintenant, c'est un question plus difficile - vraiment, c'est trais trais difficile ! Comme j'ai (et aussi M. Douglas Deans) ont explique, pour utilise MSG comme amateur ou pour recerche, le permis e

je regret que je n'ai pas beaucoup de temps libre c'est apresmidi mais j'essayerai respondez-vous c'est soir cordialment / Dave Martin

j'essayerai ecrire en Fran�ais! 1/ La premiere chose qu'on a besoin c'est un permis - on doit remplir le permis q'on trouvez sur www.eumetsat.de La seul chose qu'on a besoin achete d'Eumetsat =maint

and to reinforce Dave C's comments - Our farmhouse has a shelter-belt of trees, and I was loathe to mount a dish high on the house, so beyond the trees I have a 1.2m dish =at ground level= on a substa

just to throw in another idea - I wonder if frequency drift is playing any part here? The B2C2 receiver cards have a Xtal osc and should be quite stable; but as I understand LNBs they don't have a Xta

<snip> additionally, concerning the efficacy of "re-boots", I think there are times when we suffer from the growing 'power' of PCs and kit therein, and we can be mislead into thinking we have reset ou

Alan - I'd have to beg to differ - whilst you can uplink a whole transponder's worth of content from one teleport; you can equally have many parties' traffic carried over the same transponder, uplinke

Douglas, I've just switched on my rx PC and data seems to be flowing OK here Dave (Isle of Man)

Ian, just for info (and hopefully not to prolong the non-MSG thread!) - the issues a number of early adopters saw re (lack of) TV viewing weren't OS related. On a PC which had the Technisat DVB instal

yes Dave, agree the first ones http://www.eutelsat.com/satellites/13ehb6.html http://www.eutelsat.com/satellites/5wab3.html are the same/similar to Eumetsat TDM 15 but if you look at the handbooks: fi