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Electronic Books for immediate Download

Electronic Books for immediate Download

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Contents

Understanding Sky Digital TV (free)
Sky Digibox User Manual
Installing Sky Digital TV and Freesat
Free Digital Satellite TV in USA and Canada
Sky Digital in Spain
Beginners Guide to Electronics
Piping TV Around the House
The Freeview Bible
Satellite Secrets - Installing Analogue
Repairing Sky Digital Receivers
Beginner's Guide to Receiver Repair

How to Use a Multimeter
How to Fit Extra TV Points
The Ten Minute Web Site (tutorial)
The Lazy Man's Guide to Making Big Money
Make Money at Weekends and spare time
Be Found - web site optimisation
The Photographer's Book of Smiles
The CB EPROM Data Book
Satellite Workshop (compilation)
Jack's Workshop (compilation)
Surface Mount Technology - Guidelines

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Understanding Sky Digital TV and Freesat

Including Free To Air and Free To View programmes

This FREE 65 page eBook is available for download in the form of a ".pdf" file which you can then read on screen or print out . Everything you need to know about Sky Digital. Although it refers to "Sky" the information is applicable to all satellite transmissions.

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Although it refers to "Sky" the information is applicable to all satellite transmissions.

FREE eBook to download

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IMPORTANT: Please ensure that you can download a free eBook before you pay for any other eBook!

Martin,

Thank you, Thank you.

That cash I spent yesterday on the Installing Sky Digital TV manual (below) is probably going to save my father at least £100 when they take the new sky digital system to France in March.

Friends paid the local satellite fitters in France, the equivalent of £100 each to get their systems aligned (not fitted!). Reading the manual last night I have already learned so much, details that will make purchasing the kit here in Wales a lot easier, and will head off problems in France - Cable speccing, alignment with minimal kit, little fitting tips. Wow! Well worth a few quid!

Fitting the satellite dish won't be a problem; the previous owner left the TV aerial on the roof, along with suitable brackets (checked against our Sky system here in Wales), therefore that side of it is sorted. Using your excellent manual will make the alignment and setup a lot easier than the alternative. The alternative being trial and error!

All the best, and well done on one of the best resources on the Net for Sky Digital stuff.

Paul

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Installing Sky Digital TV and Freesat

Companion eBook to the above "Understanding..". (Please read "Understanding.." before ordering this eBook). Self installation information. Essential reading if you want to move your old system to a new house, install a brand new Freesat-HD, Sky-Plus or standard Sky system, fit a system to your house, apartment block, motorhome, caravan or narrow boat or use it in Europe, this eBook answers your questions. What size dish, what sort of cable, connectors, which receiver is best for outside the UK, how to align dish, How to disguise the dish and special disguised dishes such as the digiglobe ... 120+ page eBook filled with colour photographs and easy-to-understand explanations.

I guarantee you'll be delighted with this amazing eBook full of information!
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Installing Sky Digital satellite TV - installation guide - how to install sky
(Although it refers to "Sky" the information is applicable to all satellite transmissions.)

FREE BONUS eBook!: UK Digital Satellite TV in Europe
When you download "Installing..."
Includes tips on receiving ITV in Europe, dish mounting instructions etc.

Before you buy an eBook, be sure to read the FAQ page.

About 1.4Mb file size

Special offer! You can buy BOTH "Piping TV.." and "Installing Sky.." at Order Page click HERE for just £11.50 (Paypal only)

Sky Digibox User Guide

This User Manual is the ideal solution if you've bought a Sky Digibox without one.

Explains all the features of a Standard Digibox including "secret" menus.

Get it from

£1.45 Order Page click HERE

How to Install a Free Satellite TV System in the USA (and Canada)

 (Click on the book for more information) Only $7 US

This eBook deals with aspects of installing a satellite TV system in the USA and Canada. You can not receive UK (Sky) satellite TV anywhere in the USA because the UK satellites (Astra-2) are below your horizon. However, you CAN receive a few free English broadcasts and a lot of free foreign broadcasts with a suitable digital receiver, "universal" LNB and - in many places - quite a small dish. If you are an "alien" in the USA or Canada, this eBook is for you! Get it from

£3.40 Order Page click HERE


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Sky Digital in Spain (and southern Europe)

Companion booklet to "Installing Sky Digital TV". Please read "Installing..." before ordering this eBook.

Salvador Ferrairo Castella spent weeks carrying out tests with various LNBs and dishes between Valencia and Alicante. This eBook is a report of his findings. What size of dish and which LNB works best (Invacom quad) and why?

Complete with photographs including the dishes, LNBs, the ground station where he did the work and the equipment that he used to analyse the signals.

Computer plots showing the differences between transponder spectra.

This eBook is full of technical information but Salvador writes in impeccable English with a style that makes the eBook easy and interesting to read. You can feel his excitement as he reports on his findings! Absolutely invaluable for any expat in southern Europe.

Updated January 29, 2004

Note: although this eBook was written several years ago, the information is still up to date.

Before you buy an eBook, be sure to read the FAQ page.

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FREE - Beginners Guide to Electronics

Easier to understand than anything you've read previously!

Martin has a knack of explaining technical subjects in simple language. Components covered include resistors, diodes, transistors and capacitors.

As an example, it describes in detail how to build a flashing LED circuit on perforated stripboard ("Veroboard") with a photograph of every stage.

This is NOT just another boring technical eBook full of mathematical equations. You'll like it! Ideal for everyone from the young student to the retired lady looking for a new hobby. You'll definitely want more!

Download it FREE now! (about 470k file size)


How to Use a Multimeter

By popular request this eBook has been written to explain the most basic uses of a multimeter with extensive use of photographs to show the methods in detail. There's nothing complicated in this eBook. It sticks to simple activities like checking batteries, resistors, diodes and capacitors; measuring voltage and current.

£1.45

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How to Fit Extra TV Points

You already have a working Freeview system but you want to add extra TV aerial sockets in other rooms? This eBook explains. Download it now.

£1.45

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Running your own business?

"Stop Work. Get Rich." (The Lazy Man's Guide to Making Big Money).

Sick of working for other people? Stuck in a dead-end job or out of work? Don't just make enough to survive. Martin Pickering and Lou Franklin tell you how they were making $100,000 (£60,000) p.a. by the third year. These are REAL stories - not just second-hand hints, tips and suggestions. Everything you need to know to start and run your own business. Martin even tells you how his old, unused web site generates over $300 a month for NO WORK at all! Explains the ULTIMATE CONCEPT in making huge profits without a big outlay. This is NOT a get-rich-quick guide. It contains practical information and tells you what others have done and what YOU must do to succeed.


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Piping TV Around the House

How to connect your TV, video, satellite, DVD, and send the signals to TVs in other rooms. An invaluable guide and reference that explains UHF channel utilisation without unnecessary technical terms. Includes sketches to show wiring methods. 56 pages.

Piping TV Around the House (about 400k file size)

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This eBook is FREE if you buy a loft box from us!

Special offer! You can buy BOTH "Piping TV.." and "Installing Sky.." for just £11.50 Order Page click HERE


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The Freeview Bible

Everything you need to know about installing a Freeview box to receive Terrestrial Digital TV programmes in the UK. Installation guide

  • Details of many receivers
  • What aerial to use and how to choose it
  • Installing an aerial and cable
  • 60+ pages

OK, read more about it here.

Order Page click HERE


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Satellite Secrets - Installing Analogue

All about Analogue satellite TV installations. Although Sky analogue broadcasts ceased in September 2001, there are still lots of programmes broadcast in analogue. This eBook answers your questions. What sort of dish, cable, connectors, receivers. Installation guide - How to install. Tricks of the trade. Money-saving advice. ... 112 page eBook filled with colour photographs and easy-to-understand explanations.

Satellite Secrets - Installing Analogue (about 950k PDF file size)

OBSOLETE - but still available at reduced price. Click HERE


 

Re: Customer order 2789307

You are busy, so am I, so a short but very big thank you.

Satellite goes wrong at 2300 on Friday night and you solve the problem with your very comprehensive e-books that I received immediately at 0300 Saturday morning!!!

Such value for money price. And I live in Switzerland!

Well done all at Satcure for such a brilliant service!

Mike Collyer

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Repairing Sky Digital Receivers

Not just a repair eBook! In fact not even a repair eBook!

Common problems and cures listed - many of which you can fix yourself with only the remote control handset or a soldering iron. Plus lots of general repair information including how to recognise various components.

Written in simple terms, this eBook also gives the home user valuable advice on how to prevent failure.
Read it NOW and save money in the future.
But, if the worst happens, read it anyway because it will still save you money.

Does NOT cover the SKY+ or HD models.

Repairing Sky Digital Receivers (about 900k PDF file size)
100 pages
Last updated September 19, 2004

£1.45 Order Page click HERE

repairing the sky digibox


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Make Money At Weekends and in your spare time

Lots of ideas, hints and tips about making money in ways that you can fit into weekends and other spare time. You have to start in a small way if you want to build up enough capital to make lots of money. Or you may prefer simply to make and sell your own hand crafted items. Either way, you'll find this eBook invaluable.

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A Beginner's Guide to Receiver Repair

Based on the original "Screwdriver Expert's Guide to Satellite Receivers" this eBook describes the basic components and a typical power supply with diagrams and explanations. Shows how to solder and describes what to check and measure. Includes a basic guide to tracing the cause of a fault. It won't make you an expert but, if you are capable of soldering in components supplied as a kit, it will take you one step further so you understand why you are doing it and even help you figure out other possible fault causes and cures. If you buy a repair kit, you need this eBook.

I guarantee you'll be delighted with this amazing eBook full of information!

(about 575k PDF file size) FREE with any repair kit purchase!

£2.95 Order Page click HERE


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Installing a Motorised Dish

Everything you need to know about installing a motorised satellite TV dish system for your analogue or digital satellite receiver. Written in plain English with no maths and a minimum of technical "jargon", this eBook will lead you by the hand. Includes dish angles, declination table etc. Installation guide

Installing a motorised dish (about 650k file size)

Before you buy an eBook, be sure to read the FAQ page.

Withdrawn - out of date.

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Be Found

by Martin Pickering

You want your web site to be found? The eBook contains a multitude of tips that I've picked up during the last ten years of designing and using web sites. Many of these tips have never been mentioned previously, yet they are extremely important to the success of your web site!

The eBook is a compilation of notes that I wrote to help people who were new to web site design or who couldn't quite figure it out for themselves. (There's no shame in that. Heck, you can still see examples of bad page design on my own web sites where I haven't had the time or patience to correct them!)

I put my notes onto several web pages and they grew as time passed. Now I've decided to combine all those pages into a single eBooklet which can be downloaded and read at your leisure.

If you use my information you can create a HUGE increase in "traffic" (visitors) to your web site after only a few months - maybe even sooner.

Note: this eBooklet tells you how to design web sites that get listed in search engines. It gives brief details about designing web pages with text and pictures but it doesn't pretend to teach you how to design "killer web sites" with flashing lights, bells and whistles. Search engines don't usually care what a web site looks like. Your visitors will expect it to be neat, tidy and easy to navigate. More Info


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The Photographer's Book of Smiles

John Everett shows his unique style of humour, in the form of poems and limericks.

This highly amusing eBook makes the Ideal gift for any photographer.

Limericks and poems - each with a hand-drawn illustration.

Written and illustrated by John Everett, professional writer and photographer.

£1.00 More Info


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Each month Martin Pickering as "Jack Armstrong" wrote a monthly "Satellite Workshop" column for "Television Servicing" magazine.

We've compiled some of the original, unedited versions - that means they are longer and funnier than the published versions. They may contain errors or stories which have never appeared in print. They might also contain the odd note to the editor!

It is simply too good to give away for free.

Before you buy an eBook, be sure to read the FAQ page.

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Martin Pickering as "Jack Armstrong" wrote a monthly "Jack's Workshop" column for "Television and Home Electronics Repair" magazine.

This is a compilation of the articles from early 2001 till September 2002.

Before you buy an eBook, be sure to read the FAQ page.

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Surface Mount Technology - Design Guidelines
by Martin T. Pickering B.Eng.
  • Why do multilayer ceramic capacitors crack or burst into flames?
  • What size/shape copper pads should I use?
  • How can I reduce the cost of solder by 60%?

These notes were written a few years ago but the points considered remain valid today. They don't contain hard and fast "rules" but attempt to make the designer think logically about his design. Of course, there are some contentious points, which are bound to raise comments such as "Why should I change. I've always done it in such-and-such a way?" My answer is "Why not? You won't know unless you try it!" I worked for fifteen years as a designer and I didn't simply pull these ideas out of a hat. Hopefully you will find them interesting and thought-provoking.

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