Dish size info for Nilesat 7W in western Europe & the UK

Analoguesat

With the news that Showtime have snatched the Prem rights away from ART its inevitable that we are going to get an awful lot of questions about dish sizes next year.

Please post your experiences with reception in Western Europe & the UK only.

Put as much detail as possible - its ok if you only get one polarity part of the day.

Please NO QUESTIONS about dish sizes needed in any particular location or other questions about dish alignment. The thread is for positive INFO about 7W reception ONLY

Please use this thread:

What size dish do i need for nilesat 7'W for football

for general questions.

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Rd100

First off i would like to say all Showtime transponders are horizontal apart from one which is vertical,


South wales about 30 miles west of cardiff

Nilesat all transponders vertical (e.g mbc 2&4) and horizontal (e.g SportsNet World on 11.996 H) 24/7 and in the rain on 1.8m prime focus fortec star dish with adjustable inverto feedhorn and inverto whitetech 0.3 c120 lnb and webro wf125 coax cable,

Nilesat all vertical transponders 24/7 (e.g mbc 2 & 4) and in rain but no horizontal transponders at all on 1.2m Andrews with ku-band feedhorn and invercom 0.3 c120 lnb and webro wf125 coax cable

Rd100

Also just to add the web site for show time is http://www.showtimearabia.com/English/Default.asp

And freq list http://www.flysat.com/showtime.php

BGonaSTICK

I was able to get quite a few verticals from 7W in the summer. Even the footie on the horizontals albeit a horribly pixelated picture. That was on my Triax 1.1m dish here in Brighton, UK.

I've just had a look to see what I can get on my motorised Triax TD88 (88cm) dish at one o'clock in the morning.

I can get a watchable picture on three vertical transponders. The last has a little pixelation occasionally.

11823 V
11862 V
12015 V

One snap from each TP attached.

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JTA

I've searched a few times in the past, but I've never been able to get a lock on that one.
location : Belgian coast
dish size : 85 cm
dreambox 7000S

jimbo

So far no show(time). I'm using 1m from West London and nothing yesterday but will try later one.

Jimbo

rato

Location: Setubal, Portugal(30 Miles South of Lisbon)
Dish size: 80 cm (80% Signal Strength; 100% Signal Quality)
STB: Humax HDCI-2000

Yeshi

Nothing in Oldham using a 60cm dish..

Rd100

In the uk i thing it is pointless in moveing your dish to nilesat for the horizontal transponders unless you have got a 150cm or bigger dish

Llew

A quick check with a lash-up in the shed in Cambridge using my veteran ODM300 STB and a spare 15M length of CT100 on a Swedish Microwave 1.05M offset dish and Invacom C120 + SMW feedhorn brings in -

11747V
11785V
11823V
11862V
12015V
All at 40 -50% quality, no pixellation in rain at 0730 -0800 PM 17/11/06, some pixellation during the day.

I get QSPK lock on 11900V and 11938V, but the ODM300 doesn't store any of them.

I need to check the alignment of the dish as I suspect it's not spot on ATM.

Will try later with other STB's and the CT150 cable to house.

Llew

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Channel Hopper

Verticals and Horizontals (all transponders), on a 1.8m Precision with Chaparral polarotor and Gardiner 0.5dB Full band LNB.

10 miles south of Heathrow airport

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness"

companion

EDIT:

Please go and read the first post in this thread - NO QUESTIONS in this thread its an info thread ONLY

T_G

A lot of verticals but no Horizontals with my 1.2 m crap dish, location south of Bonn, Germany

T_G I only believe stuff that comes straight from Mr. Horses mouth!

celspid

Current 1.2 metre Channel Master gets me lots if not all verticals mostly in evenings, nothing for horizontal. Liverpool, UK

cheers,
celspid

12bore

1.1m Triax, Kilkenny, Southern Ireland. Have managed to store channel info for 11823v and 11862v (after a good bit of effort), but have never been able to watch anything- signal is extremely weak. Most of the time I don't get any signal at all. Haven't looked during summer time.

Terrydlm

I can get most verticals here in Guernsey with an 80cm dish with about 40% signal & quality. No horizontals.

dago

here in north london, I can get all vertical chanels noe horizontal, 1 meter dish
db 7000s.
regards.

sana-sat

hi guys if u wanna receive nilesat clearly u can use 1.8 cm dish with invacom lnb 0.1

Park Royal

Hi sana-sat
I think that you really mean a 1.8m dish not a 1.8cm dish, in the UK
Can you get away with a 1.8cm dish for Nilesat in the Yemen? Are dishes that small manufactured?
PR

Analoguesat

That will probably be 1.8 (m) Channel Master

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rage99

i get 2/3 transponders ( 40 channels ) with a 80cm dish

sana-sat

sorry guys i meant 1.8 ( m ) not (cm)

Leee

I get a good bunch of these channels on my trusty motorised DM500. I'll have a look tonight and tell you what I'm getting.

Location: 40km south of Zurich (Switzerland, not the one next to the Afsluitdijk - but I've been there too ) with an Arcon Sweety 53cm cassagrain dish on a Stab HH-100 motor.

nitefire

Im in Essex and get nothing from nilesat

CROSSBONES

I can get all V, and get about 50% signal on H transponders, just quite not enough to lock on. With my 1.2M fibo Gregorian, in S.Wales.