Nova-t From The Uk Problems

[Guest gseaton]

Can anybody help me, I've not long arrived from the UK and none of my DVB hardware is working?

In this instance my Hauppage Nova-t seems to get 100% signal strength but 0% quality (connected to rooftop antennae that works with an MTV STB). I've been trying different dirivers (BDA) and software progDVB and webScheduler, but neither of them finds any channels. The card is probably an older model. I have noticed that the ability to change the polarisation is greyed out on progDVD and I wondered if this could be the problem as the information I have suggests that the Canberra channels are vertically polarised (progDVB seems to be fixed at horizontal polarisation).

Am I flogging a dead horse?

Cheers,

George.

[DrP]

If the card is an older style Technotrend, get the latest non-BDA drivers and non-BDA app from www.technotrend.de and see if you can manually tune in a channel by entering in the centre frequency, bandwidth (7MHz) and set inversion to false (not inverted). The polarisation setting doesn't come into it. You just have to make sure your antenna is the right orientation.

[Guest gseaton]

I still haven't had any luck with windows applications, however I seem to be picking up the SBS signal from Black Mountain in dvbscan (FC6 Linux dvb-apps). It seems to be all the VHF channels I still have no luck with (STB picks them up OK).

Any suggestions?

TIA

George.

[DrP]

If you can get UHF then you should be able to get the VHF ones. What tuner does fedora say your card has?

[andrew1503559519]

Hi

I have had one of these DVB-T cards since Xmas 2002, probably the first in Australia. The Windows software never worked but I recompiled drivers under Redhat Linux with good results. It is UHF only because it was purchased in Europe. For many years I used the Sydney UHF translator at Kings Cross with a large aerial. The Wikipedia pages at "http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_devices_DVB-T" might be helpful in confirming the identity of the version that you have, check the Technotrend as well as Hauppauges sections. Anyway, I finally bought a VHF/UHF version that is almost identical from Kristal Electronics mailorder in Townsville and now the UHF card has been retired. I think they have stock but it's not on the web site any more.

[renura]

In the early days, it was possible that some cards would support UHF and not VHF etc, this maybe the situation with this Nova also, in which case best thing to do is to buy a new one

[Guest gseaton]

Thanks for the replies, I think I must have a UHF only card. I only wish that the linux software actually told me that I was trying something impossible for the card rather than just trlling me that tuning has failed. I can watch SBS with xine-ui even with rabbit-ears which is some consolation. Looks like I need a new card for Canberra which has most channels on VHF.

Thanks again,

George.