hmadfai said:
Hi,
Just to share my experience with you. I am based in Cardiff and I have a Triax Solid 1.1m motorized driven by Echostar DSB 980 2CI.
With my setup I can 'see' Nilesat; on good days I can watch a few channels such as EDU and Zen (used to get Space Toon a few weeks back but not anymore). My setup only gives me V feeds from this satellite so I cannot see the H TPs.
woop another cardiffian, sounds like you have a nice setup too mate. how much did you pay for your triax dish, and did you get it locally? the only local place i know is city satellite, and their website gives no real information apart from the fact they "do" sky. a friend of my dads worked for sky, but alas doesn't anymore as he was using their equipment to do work on the side. doh! i'm moving out of my current property (i'm living off albany road atm, in a terraced place.. lots of sky digital 43cm crapdishes on the fronts of houses, but little room for a real setup) so looking for a place with a flat roof preferably. no local sat users groups or anything is there? always interesting to meet up with people with similar interests locally like.
anyway back on subject... the only footprints i've ever seen for nilesat show egypt only, so this is great news! i seriously thought picking it up would be impossible, are they running multiple beams, or being sneaky and not showing the real footprint on their website? some of the chan packages on there (fox sports etc) sound pretty good, i'm presuming they're english feeds? at the moment my current plans for the future include a 90cm force frontier dish pointing east (nice to have something static) and then later on a larger dish which will be motorised to roam the skies (mainly west) looking for a little fun.
i used to live in a 3storey property in cheltenham with a flat roof, my god i bet that place would've given some cracking pictures. nice n high with a full range and zero blockages.