What satellites with a 2.4m?

Dreamlife

I have a 1m dish now but if I got a 2.4m dish, what extra satellites could I pick up in the UK? I get about 18 satellites now with my current dish. Can someone list me a few satellites so I could see if i'd benefit from a dish this size?

charly20

One of the benefit is that you can use the dish as a giant wok. Nice.

Just joking.

canofan

Among others, you could get Nilesat horizontals at 7°W, Atlantic Bird 4 at 7.2°W, all Badr's transponders on 26°E and Eurobird at 25.5°E.

GreenmanBelg

I must say its nice to have Nilesat here in Belgium. Not sure what the difference between a 1.8m and a 2.4m in gain is? ie is it really worth it.

Had you decided on which dish you'd get? do have an ideal place to install it?

Let us know.

Regards JD Belgium.

Dreamlife

I was kinda expecting to get a bit more than just 7w and 26e.

Turok

Hello!
in Belgum,there is a high difrence,,depent on your location,what dish size ins needed to catch H

only 30 km difrents location,in belgum,a friend told me,from belgum,could make very big difrence, 1,80 m are okay,but 30 km going north 2,40m needed in belgum needed for same signal,because,its out of footprint rectption at the end,i would say!

pedro2000uk

On a 1m there you should expect to get ..

45 42 40.5 39 36 33 28.2(&5) 26* 23.5 21.6 19.2 16 13 10 9 7 5 EAST

45 43 37.5 34.5 31.5 30 27.5 24.5 22 18 15 12.5 11 8 7** 5 1 WEST

* including MBC's TP but not BADR 6
** Only the strong verticals such as City 7 / Dubai One etc...

*** some weaker beams/ TPs will be missing on some satellites and some satellites like 27.5w only have feeds

checK out the strongest signals list elsewhere on this forum (listed above this subsection) for the whole arc (bit out of date now but most are OK)

and lyngsat.com (or Flysat or Kingofsats) for detailed lists of those satellites... also check the signal (footprint) maps (at the right side) to see what signals are transmitted to the UK (ie: easy to get) and which are not (not so easy to impossible to get)

you might actually get about 90% of satellites/ channels with a 1m ... the bigger dishes are just for a few difficult sats as already listed (7w etc..)

you can actually get almost all those sats on a z1 Sky dish.. minus a few tps/beams

you can also get further east or west and you may find some satellites missing in the arc due to local obstacles like trees/ chimneys...

Topper

Of course there is a small consideration to be give to such a thing as planning permission

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wod

i don't think you need planning permisson if the dish is not fixed to the ground as i believe rd100 had his 1.8m dish on a pallet or something

with a dish 2.4m you could use it for feeds more as you would have the size for getting them with a margin for weak signals

if your wanting a larger dish then go to something like 1.5m etc, if you need to boost signal strength on a particular satellite you receive now