NOTE: I used a sky dish on a diseqc motor as a temp dish set-up and was surprised to see what it picked up... it has line of sight from 28e to 45w
and sees 28e, 26e, 21.5e, 19, 16, 13, 10, 7,5, 1w,5w,8w, 12.5w, 15w, 18w, 22w, 27w, 30w, 43w, 45w- I'm sure it loses week transponders etc... but it fills 4500 channels far too easily and they keep neighbours happy.
I also noticed that after going through a load of LNBs to find the best to get 26e (regardless of quoted noise figures) the best was an old Sky LNB by Pace I think...- had to modify it to fit a 40mm fitting but it's on an 80cm dish now doing a better job.
We used to always get MBC2 on anything before they moved it... 60cm dish with a bog standard .7 db lnb was no problem except in really bad weather or sun outage at 8am-8.15 am. We had no problem using a Sky box with a (dented) 80cm dish using add channels and a manual switch.. it was usually left on MBC2 not Sky free channels... that's why we think MBC channels were moved out of normal UK range... - an obvious deal with Sky and the movie companies.. ?- at the same time they modified the software on Sky boxes to stop them being moved off sat.. (don't blame them for that though). Sky boxes still show the channels in add channels (not 11919- but Kuwait etc,, ) they just wont show them now because the Sky box has to see a particular TD or something on 28e or else it won't work.
When we used to set up a dish manually for 26e, we'd start at Sky (obviously) and using an meter, very slowly pull off Sky westward (obviously) (but on a bracket that tracked the arc!.. and watch the signal steadily drop....... until it did a very, very slight step- that plateau always seemed to be 3 or 4 degrees to the west and not 2 as 26e should be... but it worked... I now use a noisy meter and I think the racket it makes with its beeeeeep detracts from that kind of accuracy watching a needle plateau for a couple of degrees.