dish size in murcia spain

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does anyone know what the smallest dish can be used in murcia to pick up fta channels on a fta digibox not a sky digibox .In the almeria province a 1.3 dish is needed for sky systems but i can get fta channels with a 1metre dish and a fta digibox i know that up there you need a 1.8 dish min for sky.i have tryed all sorts of dishes here Almeria and the smallest dish that i could pick up bbc and all the fta channels not sky was 80 cm dish with a fta box
 

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Are they any channels in particular you are after?

A lot of the FTA stuff on Sky is on either Astra 2D (BBC stuff) or Astra2A/B South beams (Sky news I think, and a few others). For the south beams you can get away with quite a small dish 60-80cm more or less all over spain. Astra 2D is a different story, some areas of the south can pick it up with a 90cm dish, but up the north west coast a 2.0m dish might struggle. Look up this website www.astra2d.com to try and find a 2D report near your area.

For a complete list of channel and beams look up http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/skyuk.html
 

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Murcia is unfortunately in one of the 'black holes' in Spain where the BBC is at its weakest, signal- wise. Other FTA channels not on 2D will not present a problem.
Sam Radford has a pretty accurate map on his website:
http://sam-radford.me.uk/astra2d.htm
 

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What causes this so called black hole? Does the signal just not ´bounce´ properly from the satellite to that location?
 
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