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Finding Astra 2DSky digital support forum at Sats UK, Everything involved on the hardware and software side of reception of the channels from 28.2/28.5 East BskyB, special focus on fringe reception of Astra 2D for UK free to air channels | |
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My System: 1.8m motorised with Topfield TF5000CIP |
My 1.8m motorised dish is up and running near Alicante, Spain. First stab at looking for FTA channels I found about 2,500 channels but very few of them are of interest to me and I haven't found BBC yet. The satellites I found so far are;- 1) Hotbird 2) Eutelsat2F4 3) Panam4 (KU) 4) Asiasat2 (C) 5) Asiasat3 (C) I would like to find the Astra 2A, 2B, 2D satellite - should I look more East or more West ? Gibbo | ||
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My System: 1.8m motorised with Topfield TF5000CIP | How important is the azimuth of the LNB. Turning the LNB doesn't seem to make much difference to my reception. May be the correct term for this is polarisation. Gibbo | ||
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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 |
If it's motorised then you centre the LNb on the due South satellite and the skew is taken care of. If your going to be parked at 28e often then you could slightly adjust the skew for the Astra2 satellites. Astra2 are located at an orbital slot of 28e. | |||
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Blog Entries: 1 My System: Sky UK. FTA analogue & digital satellite from 6 fixed dishes (5E/7E/9E/10E/13E/16E/ 19E/23E/28E) Pace MSS100, Echostar IP3000VA, Technomate TM-1000D, Dreambox 7020S  The last noble sat warrior to fly the olden flag of Analogue |
Eutel 2F4 went to graveyard orbit nearly 10 years ago PAS 4 is at 72E and barely possible in western Europe The two Asiasats are not possible as they are the other side of the Earth from Europe. Whats happened is you have fallen into the trap of scanning multiple satellites and thinking you have found channels on all of them In reality whats actually happening is that you are getting the same channels where the frequency parameters are the same across multiple satellites. Give us half a dozen channel names and frequencies and we will tell you which satellite you have found  | |||
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My System: TM6800HD, TM1000, TM600 Linux,TM5200, TM2200 motor, Triax TD110 dish + Fortec 85cm. Meter=Satlook Micro+G2 NIT | If you find Hotbird, and are able to confirm that it really is Hotbird, you then need to go east by about 15 degrees. | ||
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