Hello everybody
This is a very interesting topic you are talking about here. I remember around 10years ago in analogue times that in the Tele Satellite International Magazine an experiment was published about receiving US-satellites in Venezuela which would need a 20m dish approximately. They achieved this with 8 5m dishes finally. I really have no idea if this is also possible with MPEG2 signals but why shouldn't it be ?
@gwise:
There is someone in Kastoria (40.6N/21.3E) who gets the BBC and most of the hor. Transponders of 2D almost all day. The dish is a 2.40m motorised and with C/KU-Feed, so effectively you can compare it with a 2.20m. Maybe some kms further away the situation is harder and you might need a much bigger dish but if you are in N-Greece i would advise you to call Emo system communication in Katerini (Komvos Korinou just on the old road to Thessaloniki). I talked lots of years ago (1995) with them when they had their store inside Katerini and they had installed many bigger dishes (mostly for Astra 1) all around Greece so maybe they are informed about the Astra 2D in different locations in N-GR. Here's their mail:
emo@otenet.gr
What an irony, i am inside the 2D footprint in Stuttgart Germany but the wall is between my balcony and the southern hemisphere.
Hope i could help a little. Please keep on searching for a solution with the phase arrays. There are so many weak satellites and if these could be received with this method this would cause a revolution in the market
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