have old sky dish,what can i do with it?

[johnnyboy4711]

Hi there,called over to my dads and he has a old skydish and i got him a ne smart titanium 0.2lnb so we could hook up his comag dvb reciever.
I think the best sat to lock onto would be Eurobird * 28.5 deg E.
I am in Galway Ireland and our Lat and Long is 53.28 and -9.07.
Latitude = 53.2849, Longitude = -9.0747
Lat = 53 degrees, 17.1 minutes North
Long = 9 degrees, 4.5 minutes West
If you want to point a satellite TV dish at Satellite= 0 East orbit longitude

Dish elevation= 28.6, Azimuth= 175.9 (magnetic compass), Polarisation= -6.7
any info would be a great help
johnnyboy

 

[rolfw]

Not really sure what you are asking.

 

[johnnyboy4711]

have dish and comag dvb reciever,together with smart LNB 0.2 and old sky steel dish,trying to pick up as many english speaking channels as possible.
which satellite would you suggest and with a digital compass which way to i go?

 

[Topper]

Whilst it may be true this will give you English speaking channels how long can you suffer quiz channels shopping channels and religeous channels? You are not going to get much of any interest for free on that bird

 

[rolfw]

Well you will of course get all of the BBC and ITV channels, plus some news channels, but it isn't greatly exiting.

Any compass will do to roughly find the satellite, then fine tune using a portable TV out by the dish and watch the signal strength bars on the receiver.

 

[Channel Hopper]

I hear The Horror channel is FTA, as well as the mature content Wrestling Network (or are they the same ?)

 

[Topper]

I hear The Horror channel is FTA, as well as the mature content Wrestling Network (or are they the same ?)

Probably


True I did take it as read that the o/p knew that the BBC and ITV channels were available fta and perhaps upon reflection I should not.

 

[spiney]

Free (non encrypted) channels on the Sky system (28.2E) include:

Some main uk terrestial (all BBC, some ITV, but no CH4).

Four free (but low quality) film channels. Includes Horror Channel, some reasonable stuff, not as good as it was when lauched.

Performance, sometimes still good stuff, but getting worse recently.

Open Access, a few films.

1 or 2 sport channels, again low quality.

Playboy One, reasonable!

Travel, Travel 2, still excellent!

Propeller, mostly crap, occasional films.

A fair amount of free Asian and Arabic channels.

My personal free favourite is Arte (Hotbird and Astra1), the French version shows quite a few excellent films with original English soundtracks (French subtitled), but it means moving the dish .....

 

[wod]

then why not motorise the dish you have would be easier