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OrbitShowtime + Al Jazeera Sports, Humax HDCI-5000-S, 7.0W - will this work?
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<blockquote data-quote="smashingly" data-source="post: 686757" data-attributes="member: 297185"><p>Well, speaking of bizarre reception stories, and hopefully not to go off topic too much.... we crossed the Atlantic from Gib to the Caribbean (and back) over the Christmas period and received viewable Sky TV (not on all Astra 2's beams of course) up until 21 deg 53.50 N, 47 deg 33.67 W - more or less right over the top of the Atlantic trench (viewable on Google Earth etc). Our 94" dishes were reading an elevation of about 5-6 degrees. It was crazy. I reckon this was because one of the Astra beams' footprint has a small spill area to cover the Canaries (for the ex-pats in Tenerife?), and this spills out a lot further than a typical footprint picture would show (why would they bother measuring footprint in the middle of nowhere anyway!)</p><p></p><p>We picked up Astra again on the return voyage at more or less the same point.</p><p></p><p>Not sure when we lost DirecTV Latin America on the return voyage, we were using 118.8W and 119W (annoyingly, different LO freqs, so had to use twice as many dishes as we normally would - you can't get twin LNBs for Seatel marine dish systems unfortunately), but I don't think we lasted very long before we lost it - day or two at 15-16 knots out of Puerto Rico.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smashingly, post: 686757, member: 297185"] Well, speaking of bizarre reception stories, and hopefully not to go off topic too much.... we crossed the Atlantic from Gib to the Caribbean (and back) over the Christmas period and received viewable Sky TV (not on all Astra 2's beams of course) up until 21 deg 53.50 N, 47 deg 33.67 W - more or less right over the top of the Atlantic trench (viewable on Google Earth etc). Our 94" dishes were reading an elevation of about 5-6 degrees. It was crazy. I reckon this was because one of the Astra beams' footprint has a small spill area to cover the Canaries (for the ex-pats in Tenerife?), and this spills out a lot further than a typical footprint picture would show (why would they bother measuring footprint in the middle of nowhere anyway!) We picked up Astra again on the return voyage at more or less the same point. Not sure when we lost DirecTV Latin America on the return voyage, we were using 118.8W and 119W (annoyingly, different LO freqs, so had to use twice as many dishes as we normally would - you can't get twin LNBs for Seatel marine dish systems unfortunately), but I don't think we lasted very long before we lost it - day or two at 15-16 knots out of Puerto Rico. [/QUOTE]
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