Sirius?

Swede

Just a quick one...

Is a 90 cm dish large enough to get the nordic beam of Sirius in East Anglia? According to Sirius webpage it isn't, but fiddling with the dish I didn't have any problems picking up the test channel on my old trusty Grundig!

loftyj

Hi Swede

You may or may not get sirius with a 90cm in East Anglia, you should be able to pick
up Ukrain on 11776 H without trouble but the rest depends on luck. Am sitting in Clacton
at the moment watching Viasat Explorer but have to use a 120cm dish and sill under
some conditions lose the signal on some stations. Go to Ukrain and check signal level
should be in region of 80-85%. rest of transponders are down in the 50-55% mark

Rob

I don't think that your 90cm dish will be large enough for the Nordic beam, you need at least a 1.2 metre, probably 1.5 metre.
The test channel that you picked up was it on the European beam ? which like the Ukrainian channels you would only need a 70cm dish.

Stephen W

I'm based just outside Great Yarmouth and pick up Sirius broadcasts (Viasatsport, Cinema 1000, TV3 etc) perfectly with an 80cm dish.

Swede

Many thanks to all of you for the answers.

Stephen, if you get it GY on an 80cm dish, I might actually stand a chance with my 90cm in Ely!

Well, you can only experiment...and maybe I just might be in luck!

Rob

Thats a surprise (a nice one I hope). Have to give that a try over the weekend and see what I can get, maybe I might get lucky as well.

Saturday morning; Tried to find the Nordic channels and found about 10, but only one fta which was Viasat History which broadcasts in English (well it was this morning).
As I only have a 70cm dish was not expecting to much, but the one channel I did find seems to be very interesting, so I feel quite lucky.

BGonaSTICK

I'd be interested to hear from anyone who can genuinely get channels form the Nordic beam on Sirius 5E in the UK on a 90cm dish.

I can get everything off the European beam, but nothing from the Nordic.

The footprint ( http://wvvw.nsab-sirius.com/ ) tends to suggest that if you can do it, then you definitely live in East Anglia!!

Swede

Rob & BGoneSTICK, I will have to test more, but when I was fiddling with my dish a few weeks ago I managed to get the Sirius test channel on PAL. Which is on the Nordic beam!

Soon weekend...

Llew

No problems with most of the Nordic channels here in Cambridge Swede.
Admittedly I'm using a 1.05m dish (SMW) but you're a fraction into the footprint so 90cm may be OK. A rainy day might knock them out though.

Llew