Here's a video report from HD51's satfinder. It gives the whole current image of the reception in Thessaloniki with a 1.30 dish.
Please notice that since the reception is on a motor, the skew is set to 0, meaning it's not optimal.
The measurement was taken around 15:00, the signal peaks around 20:00 but falls about 1-2db during nighttime.
The official last footprint of 48dbW stops about 80-100km west from Thessaloniki, however the beam behaves a lot better, when the signal is on its peak time, the differences between what used to be on 5A are minimal.
All 5B frequencies are receivable, 11509H remains quite powerful at around 17db (peak signal), but 11697H of RAI is even stronger than before around 18db. 12648V is slightly weaker on all occasions, peaking at 14db (about 1db less than on 5A). Mediaset is also about 1-2db lower than before and overall the weakest of all. Perhaps the highest frequencies are more prone to LNB skew.
Also notice the significant signal wobbling behaviour of the Silabs tuner with MIS signals, where it's not stable and varies between 3-4db in real time.
The strongest TP (still unsure if it's on 5A or 5B ) is 11480H with a massive 20.5db signal!!! Other low SR TPs come also quite strongly.
In my estimation the French need at least a dish of 1.10, perhaps even a 1m dish would suffice marginally with the correct LNB skew.
