Hi Jon, The reason I've placed the power board below the satellite equiement,is because my wife is 4ft nothing and a bit?????. So I didn't want all the plugs outside the only cupboard i was aloud ??????. But in saying all this????, I colour coder each item so she shouldn't't get confused. All items have plenty of ventilation and I'm thinking down the track about putting an air vent on the outside of the van if this is required. I also put a double power point at the rear of the cupboard to switch over 2 my 1000watts inverter when we are free camping. So I just through I would follow up on those picture's Jon Cheers Hope this helps somebody on the forum Mick
Alan8888 said
02:17 PM Mar 6, 2011
Mick17 wrote:Hi guys, these are a couple of pictures of my set-up with my Austar,Vast digital decoder box. The satellite dish is connected through a 2 x way switch betweem both systems. The top box is a 4 x way Audio system.
Cheers Mick
Now waiting for the 12V system before I go to VAST.
Only use 12V in our set up and avoid inverter near no requirement for geni either .
Mick17 said
03:59 PM Mar 6, 2011
Hi Alan8888, What every suit your needs Alan is the way to go mate. As we are set-up with 2 x 87watts solar panels, 240v main power when stopping over in C/Parks, a generator if required for free camping. Also now we have a rain water saving device that catches all the water from our awning and runs directly into our 3 tanks with a 3 way splitter. I'm not to sure when a 12v Vast decoder box will be available and if their will be one anyway. Also a new strong decoder box availablility has us all wounder what's going too happen in the need future, as I believe Vast has a contact with the government on this one mate. cheers Mick
milo said
04:49 PM Mar 6, 2011
yeoeleven wrote:
Thanks Milo that was very interesting seeing how it all fits together.
Could you please show us or descibe the antennae you use when travelling because that would also account for much of the actual receiving.
John
Hi john, hw , glad the video helped out.. with our moter home it has the wine gaurd ( i think thats what its called ) areal that you wind up from inside the van, but any areal would work , goes to where the tv is located, also has a 12 v booster for helping with reception, then you just plug the areal same as i did in the video, and the one i have pics up the local digital channels, i havent got the money for paytv, and dont care for it as i dont watch alot of tv... but it handy if were travelling....
Mick17 said
09:04 PM Mar 10, 2011
Hi guys, After along an frustrating time in trying in connect to the satellite through our dish for our new Vast digital decoder box. We finally had to ring John at Satplus Caboolture,30 minutes later and after John having allot of patience with me,as I was just trying to get my head around all of this techo stuff. John finally found the problem, as it work out that I was given the wrong code number to enter into the system. In the end I had to ring vast in Sydney to re-connect us. The outcome is we now have 80 channels through out Australia and they all work great. One point of interest is that Vast will send us an e-mail 4 weeks before our 6 months is up so we can re-register with Vast again. Hope this helps others that could come across the same problem cheers Mick
Dunco said
11:05 AM Jul 6, 2011
I emailed STRONG industries to see if they were going to make a new Satellite Box for the VAST system and just received a reply that they should have one ready by the end of 2011, or before...and they are working on it now. Should be better than the UEC branded one...and should be 12v.
Mick17 said
03:22 PM Jul 6, 2011
Hi Dunco, We are travelling the West Coast and have Had the VAST and Austar system since Feb 2011. We won't be returning home until Easter next year. Now my question to you mate is that having the vast system NOW is alot better than waiting for 12 months, then it might not happen with Strong anyway. All I do is change the system from 240v when we are not on mains power through our 1000watts Sine wave Inverter. I've watched the footy for over 8 hours and starting with the volts at 13.8, by the time I turn the system of there is around 12.3 volt remaining. The the solar panels kick in again Thanks for the info on strong system See ya from Karratha WA Mick mickandval6@bigpond.com
Gundog said
08:47 AM Sep 8, 2015
I have a 80cm dish with a Sat king dual head LMB one cable runs through to my sat king decoder and loops out tp lmb input t on my foxtel box the 2nd cable is directly to lmb input2.
I receive foxlel ok but nothing on the vast box, even using the settings the vast box displays in the sat finding facility.
Using those settings dish angle, direction and lmb twist fox is perfect no vast.
2 WTF anomalies on the fox box you can access a page where it shows your signal strength input 1 great but this is the funny bit without the vast boxin the loop input 2 is great but add the vast box the you have identical signal information on input 2 &4 .
Now heres the 2nd WTF moment if i rotate the lmb twist 90deg from where it should be i get vast and no fox.
I'm confused
KFT said
10:03 AM Sep 8, 2015
G'day Gundog,
I think your issue is the connection between the two boxes. Vast uses a vertically polarized signal, Fox uses a horizontal signal.
To make this work with those two boxes you will need 1 cable from the LNB to the fox box and one cable from the other output of the LNB to the VAST box. My setup works well this way.
frank
margjohnb said
07:17 PM Sep 7, 2016
If you are only wanting to watch Free to Air, why do you have to register the system. Does it cost you money for that as well.
Margjohb
Cruising Cruze said
08:56 PM Sep 7, 2016
Hi Margjohb
So far I know it is free,you just have to make a phone call or do it online
Here are some links to look at and to get more info
Hi guys, these are a couple of pictures of my set-up with my Austar,Vast digital decoder box. The satellite dish is connected through a 2 x way switch betweem both systems. The top box is a 4 x way Audio system. Cheers Mick
Hi
-- Edited by Mick17 on Sunday 6th of March 2011 10:43:49 AM
It is not a good idea to stack the set top boxes on top of one another as you have, their is not enough air flow to expel the heat. Read the instruction regarding ventilation.
Joe50 said
10:44 PM Sep 7, 2016
margjohnb wrote:
If you are only wanting to watch Free to Air, why do you have to register the system. Does it cost you money for that as well. Margjohb
Once you have your dish, receiver, cables, etc., there is no cost to access the VAST service. Registration as a traveller only lasts for six months - you have to keep re-registering prior to the current period expiring but it only involves a phone call (you need to quote the smart card number so keep it handy). If you travel to another state you can have your new location noted so that programming will be aligned with your current time zone. One downside is that VAST is only staffed on business days, so if you have an issue that needs human intervention on a weekend ... tough!
Joe
PeterD said
04:16 PM Sep 8, 2016
Phillipn wrote: It is not a good idea to stack the set top boxes on top of one another as you have, their is not enough air flow to expel the heat. Read the instruction regarding ventilation.
A couple of things:
1.. Those pictures were posted 5 years ago. If anything was going to overheat it would have happened long ago.
2.. The poster has not been back on the forum for 12 months. It's advisable to check the activity of someone you are addressing to see they are still around.
PeterD said
04:23 PM Sep 8, 2016
margjohnb wrote:
If you are only wanting to watch Free to Air, why do you have to register the system. Does it cost you money for that as well. Margjohb
It's all tied up with broadcasting rights for the commercial broadcasters. Networks transmitting in different areas use different channels in different markets. You register your receiver to operate in a specific area and that determines the channels you can receive. The networks demanded area protection before they opted to come on board the satellite system system.
OutbackMK said
09:13 PM Sep 8, 2016
Following the latest gravedig I thought it would be worth mentioning some recent changes I found with my sat.
I have a ITechworld D4 signal tester (has a small TV screen so you can select a channel to tune on then get an actual picture for fine tuning.)
Its been 9 mths or more since I last used it and when testing the other day I had no TV reception even though signal quality and strength were 70 and 90% on ABC.
The practice was always to set the channel to ABC or Aljevera and tune. It appears that in the last little while both of these channels are no longer available without VAST registration and you can't upload (rehit) your VAST box without a tuned system.
Solution was to tune on FOXTEL help channel, so if anyone has a D4 signal tuner you will need to use the help channel to tune, hope this helps someone.
Cheers,
Brian
PeterD said
09:57 PM Sep 9, 2016
PeterD wrote: It's all tied up with broadcasting rights for the commercial broadcasters. Networks transmitting in different areas use different channels in different markets.
The reason I've placed the power board below the satellite equiement,is because my wife is 4ft nothing and a bit?????.
So I didn't want all the plugs outside the only cupboard i was aloud ??????.
But in saying all this????, I colour coder each item so she shouldn't't get confused.
All items have plenty of ventilation and I'm thinking down the track about putting an air vent on the outside of the van if this is required.
I also put a double power point at the rear of the cupboard to switch over 2 my 1000watts inverter when we are free camping.
So I just through I would follow up on those picture's Jon
Cheers
Hope this helps somebody on the forum
Mick
Now waiting for the 12V system before I go to VAST.
Only use 12V in our set up and avoid inverter near no requirement for geni either .
What every suit your needs Alan is the way to go mate.
As we are set-up with 2 x 87watts solar panels, 240v main power when stopping over in C/Parks, a generator if required for free camping. Also now we have a rain water saving device that catches all the water from our awning and runs directly into our 3 tanks with a 3 way splitter.
I'm not to sure when a 12v Vast decoder box will be available and if their will be one anyway.
Also a new strong decoder box availablility has us all wounder what's going too happen in the need future, as I believe Vast has a contact with the government on this one mate.
cheers
Mick
with our moter home it has the wine gaurd ( i think thats what its called ) areal that
you wind up from inside the van, but any areal would work , goes to where the tv is located, also has a 12 v booster for helping with reception, then you just plug the areal same as i did in the video, and the one i have pics up the local digital channels, i havent got the money for paytv, and dont care for it as i dont watch alot of tv... but it handy if were travelling....
After along an frustrating time in trying in connect to the satellite through our dish for our new Vast digital decoder box. We finally had to ring John at Satplus Caboolture,30 minutes later and after John having allot of patience with me,as I was just trying to get my head around all of this techo stuff.
John finally found the problem, as it work out that I was given the wrong code number to enter into the system. In the end I had to ring vast in Sydney to re-connect us.
The outcome is we now have 80 channels through out Australia and they all work great.
One point of interest is that Vast will send us an e-mail 4 weeks before our 6 months is up so we can re-register with Vast again.
Hope this helps others that could come across the same problem
cheers
Mick
We are travelling the West Coast and have Had the VAST and Austar system since Feb 2011. We won't be returning home until Easter next year.
Now my question to you mate is that having the vast system NOW is alot better than waiting for 12 months, then it might not happen with Strong anyway.
All I do is change the system from 240v when we are not on mains power through our 1000watts Sine wave Inverter.
I've watched the footy for over 8 hours and starting with the volts at 13.8, by the time I turn the system of there is around 12.3 volt remaining. The the solar panels kick in again
Thanks for the info on strong system
See ya
from Karratha WA
Mick
mickandval6@bigpond.com
I think your issue is the connection between the two boxes. Vast uses a vertically polarized signal, Fox uses a horizontal signal.
To make this work with those two boxes you will need 1 cable from the LNB to the fox box and one cable from the other output of the LNB to the VAST box. My setup works well this way.
frank
Margjohb
Hi Margjohb
So far I know it is free,you just have to make a phone call or do it online
Here are some links to look at and to get more info
https://www.mysattv.com.au/
https://www.mysattv.com.au/RegistrationProcess.aspx
Cheers John
It is not a good idea to stack the set top boxes on top of one another as you have, their is not enough air flow to expel the heat. Read the instruction regarding ventilation.
Once you have your dish, receiver, cables, etc., there is no cost to access the VAST service. Registration as a traveller only lasts for six months - you have to keep re-registering prior to the current period expiring but it only involves a phone call (you need to quote the smart card number so keep it handy). If you travel to another state you can have your new location noted so that programming will be aligned with your current time zone. One downside is that VAST is only staffed on business days, so if you have an issue that needs human intervention on a weekend ... tough!
Joe
A couple of things:
1.. Those pictures were posted 5 years ago. If anything was going to overheat it would have happened long ago.
2.. The poster has not been back on the forum for 12 months. It's advisable to check the activity of someone you are addressing to see they are still around.
It's all tied up with broadcasting rights for the commercial broadcasters. Networks transmitting in different areas use different channels in different markets. You register your receiver to operate in a specific area and that determines the channels you can receive. The networks demanded area protection before they opted to come on board the satellite system system.
I have a ITechworld D4 signal tester (has a small TV screen so you can select a channel to tune on then get an actual picture for fine tuning.)
Its been 9 mths or more since I last used it and when testing the other day I had no TV reception even though signal quality and strength were 70 and 90% on ABC.
The practice was always to set the channel to ABC or Aljevera and tune. It appears that in the last little while both of these channels are no longer available without VAST registration and you can't upload (rehit) your VAST box without a tuned system.
Solution was to tune on FOXTEL help channel, so if anyone has a D4 signal tuner you will need to use the help channel to tune, hope this helps someone.
Cheers,
Brian
For more info see this link - Viewer Access Satellite Television