68.5 C-band in Hungary?

[hungasat]

Hi all
I'll be moving to Hungary in a few months and need to know what setup I need to receive the DSTV (multichoice Africa) signal there.

I have a 1.8m dish with suitable decoder, but could upgrade to a 2.4m before I get there if that is what it takes.

The area I will be moving to is flat so line of sight should be no problem (18 deg on horizon)

Is there anybody else in Hungary/Austria who are able to receive this signal?

thanks

 

[deepbluesky]

Hello,

Members in Germany and Austria say 68.5E has become weaker. I don't know if this is also the case for Hungary. I recommend taking a look at the following boards.

_http://www.netboard.hu/viewforum.php?forum=47
Hungarian board

_http://forum.dxtv.de/wbb/thread.php?threadid=4915
German board with members also from Austria

_http://www.novisf.com/wbb3/index.php
Croatian board

_http://forum.sibila.si/index.php?sid=392cbc587ffa2de9adcd12b71eaf53df
Slovenian board

_http://www.sat-digest.com/forum/index.php
Russian board with some members from Hungary

_http://web2.dxsatcs.66.sk/php66/index.php?str=19
An excellent slovakian DXer site with many details

_http://www.rdi-board.com/
A romanian sat board also with members from Hungary. Not few people there from Asia, Africa and probably Europe do receive 68.5E C-Band

_http://forum.skysunsat.pl/685e-%3Cb%3Eintelsat-7-10%3C-b%3E-vf75.htm?sid=deed77742f71f3e148de76b7b1b302c7
Last but not least, the very informative polish board that might also give you some hint.

Would be great to get feedback from you.

 

[Turok]

Hy,with my 2,40 m mesh dish pointed,on 68,5e i can reveive 141 Channels,not all transponders,here,but the most,for all,i recomended a 3,1 meter mesh dish,but the are all out of stock,in this size,here in europe,only some dealers has some 3,60 m left!
3816 20500 3/4,is the strongest multichioce transponde,all others are weaker 3863 i have signal ,on 3836 ,i got no signal,also on ary worl digital package,there is no signal,with my 2,40 mesh at the moment,the reason is,other channels,using nearly the same freqency,on the other polarisation,like nhk,for example,only the simbolrate is higher !

 

[Channel Hopper]

Confirmed - With a 3.7m solid dish in London, nothing is available from a standard receiver, however there are blips on the spectrum analyser which suggest a dish of 5m is now required for the vertical polarisation channels.

The beam has most likely been moved East to allow viewers in India and the subcontinent a better reception.

 

[Turok]

Good Morning!
hm,sounds not good,its looks like ,that the satlites is weaker and weaker every year,i hope they will replace it soon,do you have a kti mesh antenna?
here,it is very hard to find one,incliding installer,have some nice adresses from over sea,where you can buy 7 meter mesh dishes
i would realy want to know,what it would posible ot reveive with it!

Nhk is very strong,and ukala tv is a very good dokumentaion channel zee tv usa sport is open @ the moment!
there is a lot of cricket @ the moment!

dordashan india sometimes here sometimes not,iam still looking for mtv india smart card cryptoworks dont find any..


at momemt i dont have the water protection basket installed on my antenna,can i win signal with this,or is then the signal not so good?

 

[Turok]

should i install this basket,on my antenna,or not?
better signal?
it is from my kti 1,.95 mesh,that i want to point to 55 west,when i got signal,and the 2500m high maintain ist not in the way ,we will see,maybe,i have to modifeized the basket,a little bit,to put on on 2,40 mesh from echostar,but iam noot sure,is this basket needed or not,in thailand i see alot of mesh with the basket,for lnb protection from the monsun rain,but,here i cant test,the signal,coz it was so strong in south east asia,nothing for dxing..in cband,only kuband was intresting,on the philphine channels with 1,80 m dish!

 

[hungasat]

thank you for all the info
from what I am able to pick up, I will need
dish of 240 cm
Universal dual polarity LNB for C ,4-4,2

what is better for this position? Mesh or solid?

Any makes of LNB that you would suggest?

 

[Turok]

hello!
when you can install solid dishes,then you buy that one,but there are a lot of quality diferents,
when you have strong winds in hungary buy a mesh dish,price is a little bit lower,irte is out of priduction,of the 2,40m segment dish,price very high in germany 700€!
and more, for cband lnb,buy one with 13 kelvin,i import the new gardiner from brasil with 12 celvin!
3.10 m mesh would be the best solution,here,in our gegrpahical area,then you will reveive all transponders!.with 2,40 m,nearly 18 transponders,are missing no signal for example 3836 or the ary digital package,this my results!