Astra 2D Reception: Dish Size Survey

[HeXaDeC]

Moving to Germany soon.....so my interest in Sat. TV has blossomed again.

This is the best place on the net for expertise.............

Hope you are well and happy old friend.

 

[rolfw]

Very well thanks Hex, whereabouts in Germany are you going to?

 

[HeXaDeC]

Dusseldorf town centre.........near the Altstadt....;)

Visit anytime m8.

 

[rolfw]

LOL, may well take you up on that. Looks like an 80cm will be fine for your British TV reception, so no huge expenditure.

 

[sesamo]

First of all...excuse me for my bad english....
My position is in Treviso, Italy, near Venice...
J have a 110 cm dish and all astra 2d is perfect....only at night...at 11.00 pm o'clock the signal is slower and tv freeze but after an hour...the signal come back discretely...
In the morning and the afternoon and in evening no problem of reception

 

[m.crewe]

Czech rep 2.4 meter dish no BBC oo ITV

 

[loaded]

I'm in Czech, about as far East as you can get. I just got channel 4 back and never had 1,2,3 but all the other channels come in clear. My dish is 90cm. I need to tinker with the system to get more out of it, but no A2D

 

[cyberscenic]

Basel, Switzerland:

80cm all channels work fine even in heavy rain. the only problem is snow though!

 

[gouik]

France, near Grenoble. Good reception of astra 2d with 60 cm dish.

 

[loaded]

OK, update, in Czech, Four comes in under 'other channels' on ther Skybox and I now get great picture on ITV. No BBC except BBC 24, which sometimes includes some special channels on the interactive. I have checked and although I thought I had a 90cm dish, it is actually 80cm.

 

[hammymac]

Toulon south of France. 80 cm, no channel 4. Sliught pixilation mainly at night. Picture and signal strength 90% - 100%

 

[osioradain]

I thought there was a map!!

 

[Lazarus]

I thought there was a map!!

There are lots of Footprint Maps - but none of them are any substitute for reception reports, especially from those in fringe areas.

 

[rolfw]

I thought there was a map!!

Yes sorry, there was an interactive map based on googlemap, but unfortunately it is no longer compatible with vBulletin and was causing database errors, so we had to remove it.

 

[zorbua]

Location: Malta. - Dish 1.2 - Receiver Dreambox 8000.

Ch 4. Freq - 12480 V 27500 2/3 SNR 48%

Brit Shorts 11427 H SNR 32%.

ITV HD 31%

ITV Anglia W 12402 V 40%.

All Receivable without any pixalation except of course in heavy rain.

Dish really well focused.

 

[jonfr]

Iceland, I get all the channels with out any problems at all. I got 85cm dish.

 

[caro]

Copenhagen, 80cm dish no BBC but ITV TTS, channel 4 and channel 5

 

[Ojos Azules]

Altinkum, Turkey
1.5 metre dish.
ITV, C4
BBC News 24 and all radio stations
Sky Sports 1,2 &3
SKy News is sporadic, going away after 08:45 until late in the night!!
No BBC, C5 or ITV 2, 3, 4 etc

Trying new SKY Box AMG 6688 for channels

 

[FRINGE]

I'm in Adeje, Tenerife using a 2.7 Laminas offset dish, a 3B Electronics quad LNB (don't blame me - it came with the dish) and a Humax Foxsat PVR. Have received a good range of freesat channels 24/7 over the past eight months or so but been having problems from about 21:30 for the past 4 weeks or so when signal quality drops to zero (except sometimes for Meridian South which remains just about watchable).

Here are some readings from the Humax taken today at 13:00.

Channel Strength % Quality %
BBC1 London 90 70
Channel 4 85 70
Meridian South 90 70
Five 85 70
ITV 4+1 90 70
More 4+1 85 70

Will be fitting a new quad LNB (Invacom C120 QDF-031) in the next couple of weeks to see if performance is improved.

 

[ralphmagno]

hello from naples italy
we had a 4 meter dish with a ivacom lnb.
there was not even a bump on the sprectum on astra 2 d here.
the dish was diactavated.
the irte prime focus weighs 900 kg.
ralph