Ninety Centimetre Sat Dish - What Can I Recieve?

Ferguson

Im looking to recieve free-to-air satellite televsion. I live in South Yorkshire, Sheffield to be precise. I would not like to get a bigger dish than 90CM unless I could achieve a significantly better quality picture or recieve an additional satellite, if that was the case 1M dish would be maximum. I am aware that there are many, many satellites out there but i'd like to know which ones I could recieve using my dish size and many LNB's and what channels the satellites broadcast.

Many thanks.

Analoguesat

If you are looking for the most channels then 13E & 19E are the main European hotspots. A 90cm dish would allow you to have both with an offset lnb, plus another offset on 28E for the free channels there if you so desired.

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Ferguson

How about ASTRA 23.5° East, would I be capable of recieveing it?

Analoguesat

Astar 1D stuff no problem 90 cm is too small for the stuff on Astra 3A though

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Cheekykid

Why is 90cm too small for 3A? for some parts of UK this may be the case but the footprint covers most of the UK http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/maps/astra3a.html

OldBen

Because the UK part of the footprint is at lower power you need a bigger dish to get a stong signal.

This should answer your question on what size for 23.5E:
Astra 3A, UK Reception and Dish Size Map

I am in the south east and can't get a decent signal with my ~80cm.

Paul.

paddy2

I have a motorised 80cm. mesh dish in Liverpool,
i can receive almost everything on it.All Hipistat,Sirius.Thor.Astra,Hotbird,Astra2,Sesat,Tu rkstat,and more.So having a small dish is not bad.I have a Syntech 2000 .3db.lnb.

Cheekykid

All sirius? I doubt

paddy2

Yes you are correct,not all Sirius,but what I can receive I am happy with.

daxv8

Hi Ferguson,

If you are fix mounted and mounting many LNB's then I would mount .Astra19deg,Hotbird 13 deg,Astra2b 28 deg,. For this set up a Lemon monoblock so you rx Hot bird 13 and astra 19 deg . and fix another at 28 deg.
If you motorise then
Sesat,Turkstat,Hipistat,Sirius.Thor but you need a good sight to obtain a view of all these sats 42 deg east to 30 deg west. At the moment I am on astra 19 most of the time with motorised setup . The triax 90 cm over 1.1. does not pull in much more as I have both going on motors.

Cheers
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