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Hi,
I am the proud owner of a Skystar 2 card that I've just installed and am having fun viewing BBC1 and a couple of Vegetable slicing, Thigh training, Lord praising channels.
At the suggestion of a couple of you guys I have an engineer coming round to point my dish at the hotbird satellite (13 deg E) - He seemed a little wary as to whether a minidish would do the job however. Any comments?
I read somewhere that with the one dish you can only expect to get a span of 10-15 deg's of reception. Haivng scanned for what I can get already with my dish pointing 28.3 deg E (I think that's right for Sky Dig?) I seem to be able to get some of the hotbird channels already, along with a few dodgy looking - is this possible or am I confusing what my software's doing?
I am the sort of person who needs to be able to envisage what the hell's going on with something technical otherwise I just stare blankly at people when they explain something to me - I think this is commonly known as 'pretty thick' :-)
So concequently if someone would care to explain how my software recognises a particular satellite for example that would probably help - I presume it doesn't actually 'look' 13 deg East when it scans for hotbird for example - I imagine there's something in the settings that differentiates between say Hotbird 1 and Astra 2? Is there a site anyone can point me to that gives the lowdown on what all the abbreviations refer to - NID's PID's and all that - I have What Satellite which has been really good at helping me understand how the whole crazy jigsaw fits together but there are still lots of pieces missing!
Here's another one that occurs to me - To get a specific satellite notoriously requires a great deal of accuracy in dish pointing I believe - so how come pointing accurately at one satellite allows you to pick up other several degrees out from the 'target' satellite?
And finally if anybody has made it to the end of this post, is there any free internet service provider that allows you to use your exisitng dialup connection for upload and satellite for download - I realise this is unlikely but you never know - I mean I can watch adverts for smoothy makers for free....
Thanks for your stamina,
Howard.
I am the proud owner of a Skystar 2 card that I've just installed and am having fun viewing BBC1 and a couple of Vegetable slicing, Thigh training, Lord praising channels.
At the suggestion of a couple of you guys I have an engineer coming round to point my dish at the hotbird satellite (13 deg E) - He seemed a little wary as to whether a minidish would do the job however. Any comments?
I read somewhere that with the one dish you can only expect to get a span of 10-15 deg's of reception. Haivng scanned for what I can get already with my dish pointing 28.3 deg E (I think that's right for Sky Dig?) I seem to be able to get some of the hotbird channels already, along with a few dodgy looking - is this possible or am I confusing what my software's doing?
I am the sort of person who needs to be able to envisage what the hell's going on with something technical otherwise I just stare blankly at people when they explain something to me - I think this is commonly known as 'pretty thick' :-)
So concequently if someone would care to explain how my software recognises a particular satellite for example that would probably help - I presume it doesn't actually 'look' 13 deg East when it scans for hotbird for example - I imagine there's something in the settings that differentiates between say Hotbird 1 and Astra 2? Is there a site anyone can point me to that gives the lowdown on what all the abbreviations refer to - NID's PID's and all that - I have What Satellite which has been really good at helping me understand how the whole crazy jigsaw fits together but there are still lots of pieces missing!
Here's another one that occurs to me - To get a specific satellite notoriously requires a great deal of accuracy in dish pointing I believe - so how come pointing accurately at one satellite allows you to pick up other several degrees out from the 'target' satellite?
And finally if anybody has made it to the end of this post, is there any free internet service provider that allows you to use your exisitng dialup connection for upload and satellite for download - I realise this is unlikely but you never know - I mean I can watch adverts for smoothy makers for free....
Thanks for your stamina,
Howard.