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Sky & Freesat fringe reception
Lost ITV and Channel 5 in Malaga Southern Spain
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<blockquote data-quote="andrewcrawford" data-source="post: 827035" data-attributes="member: 370303"><p>yes all PBS chanels will eventally switch over so you will lose them a bigger dish might work the problem is the beam has steep drop off from it edge so fringe areas will require much larger this is example but its not a garantee nor worked otu size</p><p></p><p>lets say you live in madrid and that is the edge of the beam and you need about 1.2M dish</p><p></p><p>then you move 50miles west</p><p></p><p>ive nota clue of spain so cant say what town or city that might be, now the drop off from amdrid is steep due to the beam, so where you might think before 1.5-2m you are probally talking about 2.4M high quailty dish or 3M average dish</p><p></p><p>then you move another 200 miles west, because of the drop off you are probally talking about 3.5m-4m high quailty dish and maybe about 5m average dish</p><p></p><p>with the baove examples oyu might find you can receive it on smaller dish but the quailty will be poor bad picture quailty or cuts out often wha ti using in my example would be for good quailty picture signal no matter when</p><p></p><p>please bear in mind i have not worked out the beam and required dish size yet that i only example of how much the beam drops off so please dnt go out buying a new dish yet and secondly to say what size i need to know your location after working out the bea to give recommendedation</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="andrewcrawford, post: 827035, member: 370303"] yes all PBS chanels will eventally switch over so you will lose them a bigger dish might work the problem is the beam has steep drop off from it edge so fringe areas will require much larger this is example but its not a garantee nor worked otu size lets say you live in madrid and that is the edge of the beam and you need about 1.2M dish then you move 50miles west ive nota clue of spain so cant say what town or city that might be, now the drop off from amdrid is steep due to the beam, so where you might think before 1.5-2m you are probally talking about 2.4M high quailty dish or 3M average dish then you move another 200 miles west, because of the drop off you are probally talking about 3.5m-4m high quailty dish and maybe about 5m average dish with the baove examples oyu might find you can receive it on smaller dish but the quailty will be poor bad picture quailty or cuts out often wha ti using in my example would be for good quailty picture signal no matter when please bear in mind i have not worked out the beam and required dish size yet that i only example of how much the beam drops off so please dnt go out buying a new dish yet and secondly to say what size i need to know your location after working out the bea to give recommendedation [/QUOTE]
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