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80cm dish and which digital receiver to watch turkish satellite
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<blockquote data-quote="spliffbizzie" data-source="post: 67986" data-attributes="member: 185339"><p>hi all</p><p></p><p>ok let me begin, last year my brother in law who,s turkish brought over his digiturk digital receiver and his card, we were told we needed a 80cm dish to pick it up, so we got the dish and the lnb etc and had it fitted and pointed to eutelsat w3 and no digiturk, the signal who never go beyond halfway up the scale, so we never got it sorted and this year we would like to sort it, we still have the 80cm dish and would like some advice on what else we need, we are going to buy a receiver so he dont have to carry his with him every year, so on to the questions</p><p></p><p>1. is a 80cm dish big enough, i live in belfast, northern ireland, i think its either turksat <a href="mailto:1c@42">1c@42</a> east or eutelsat <a href="mailto:w3@7">w3@7</a> east we will be pointing at, i take it the closer to the edge of the footprint the bigger the dish you need? i was looking at the footprints <a href="http://www.smw.se/footprint/footprint.htm" target="_blank">here</a> and i seem to be 42-45 db which i take is signal strengh. if anyone know any other sat's we can point at could you list them please.</p><p></p><p>2. do we need a special lnb, we were supplied 1 when we bought the dish but were wondering if we needed a special 1 and if so which 1</p><p></p><p>3. we are going to buy a receiver so could anyone recommend a good range, i will be probably be looking to spend around 100-150 pounds for now, or if someone could tell us what we should be looking for in a receiver, that would be great as well</p><p></p><p>i think thats it for now fellas, i would to know a few things before i phone an engineer to come do it for me, i will search the forums but if anyone know of posts that could answer my questions could you throw me a link.</p><p></p><p>many thanks in advance </p><p>stevie.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spliffbizzie, post: 67986, member: 185339"] hi all ok let me begin, last year my brother in law who,s turkish brought over his digiturk digital receiver and his card, we were told we needed a 80cm dish to pick it up, so we got the dish and the lnb etc and had it fitted and pointed to eutelsat w3 and no digiturk, the signal who never go beyond halfway up the scale, so we never got it sorted and this year we would like to sort it, we still have the 80cm dish and would like some advice on what else we need, we are going to buy a receiver so he dont have to carry his with him every year, so on to the questions 1. is a 80cm dish big enough, i live in belfast, northern ireland, i think its either turksat [email="1c@42"]1c@42[/email] east or eutelsat [email="w3@7"]w3@7[/email] east we will be pointing at, i take it the closer to the edge of the footprint the bigger the dish you need? i was looking at the footprints [url="http://www.smw.se/footprint/footprint.htm"]here[/url] and i seem to be 42-45 db which i take is signal strengh. if anyone know any other sat's we can point at could you list them please. 2. do we need a special lnb, we were supplied 1 when we bought the dish but were wondering if we needed a special 1 and if so which 1 3. we are going to buy a receiver so could anyone recommend a good range, i will be probably be looking to spend around 100-150 pounds for now, or if someone could tell us what we should be looking for in a receiver, that would be great as well i think thats it for now fellas, i would to know a few things before i phone an engineer to come do it for me, i will search the forums but if anyone know of posts that could answer my questions could you throw me a link. many thanks in advance stevie. [/QUOTE]
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