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05-07-2009
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| Member Join Date: 05-07-2009 Location: North West UK
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hello, Could anyone possibly advise me on what I would need to receive Arab satellite channels in the UK? I live in the North West, near Liverpool/Manchester. I have a 1.2m dish, and a 0.6m dish too. The receiver I have is faulty, and I am planning on replacing it with this: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=224748 Would this kind of setup be OK? Would it be possible to get Arabic channels like this? I heard recently the BADR-6 satellite is in orbit, would this increase my chances of receiving the Arabic services in my location? Thank you very much in advance for your help! | ||
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| Super Moderator  Real name: Paul Join Date: 07-05-2007 Location: South Midlands, UK & Lanzarote, Canary Islands
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My System: Zone1, DSI8215 SkyHD, Thomson DSI4214, TF5000CI, Dreambox DM800 HD PVR - Nab BH0.12, TM-5200D, Gibertini 104cm, SNH-031, 36v Actuator, Vbox-II, 42°E to 30°W, Sling Media, Televes H45 Digital Processing Analyser, Satlook Micro+G2 NIT, Rover SDM 1s | Receiver looks standard enough and will be fine for DVB-S reception. HDMI is for upscaling only by the look of it. Badr-4, 26e is receivable with a 120cm, should get a reliable Mbc reception too with this size dish. What is the dish manufacture out of interest? | ||
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My System: 1.2M Channel Master, C120 Invacom 0.3 LNB & Feedhorn, with Humax HDCI2000. 68.5E - 61W | BADR 4 should come in fine with a 1.2m, but BADR 6 requires a much larger dish, over 2m at least. | ||
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My System: 1.1m Triax Motorised 45e-45w, Raven 60cm fixed, Fortex Zeta PVR, Technomate TM500 | I get a stable picture on the MBC's in all but poor weather on a 1.1m triax. Not too far from you. | ||
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| Member Real name: Lee Join Date: 04-04-2009 Location: Stoke-on-Trent,UK
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My System: Comag SL65, MVision st5 for PVR, Technomate 2300 HH motor, Orbital 100cm dish, Inverto Black Ultra LNB. | I get the mbc channels here in stoke-on-trent even in poor weather, I think it is down to the lnb. | ||
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My System: - | hello, Thank you very much for your help guys! Satelliteman, I'm afraid I have no idea of the manufacturer of the satellite dish. I'm a complete novice when it comes to these things, it wasn't me who installed the dish. So if I were able to receive a good reception on BADR-4, I should be able to get all the "arabsat" channels? | ||
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hello to all. did some tests on this posision. used a 1.6 prime focus to see if the bbc was possible. i found the 30 west spanish sat no problem but not the 27.5 west. this satellite has bbc 1 and bbc 2 using a symbol rate of 39.777 . first i nees to see the signal then find the receiver. has anyone picked up this signal south of rome or anywhere else??? fringe area here. thanks ralph  | ||
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| hello, For Arab channels on Badr satellite ,from my experience, I would recommend that you have a good Lnb and dish.Channel master 1.2 m (Triax 1.2m) and Lnb I would like to recommend MTI 0.2 db (white only) as the best I have used,not the blue one. The receiver seems OK but I can't be sure. Good Luck Thanks | ||
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