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<blockquote data-quote="nopfusch" data-source="post: 134863" data-attributes="member: 195487"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">I stay in South Africa (near Johannesburg). </span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">There was an article in the TelesatelliteInternational Magazine where that Magazine wanted to find the reason of why was that reception possible, as chrislloret correctly says. Then the University of Stellenbosch (near Capetown) joint -in. They discovered that 4 or 5 analogue stations where possible to receive in Capetown, with a 4 m precision solid dish. In Johannesburg it was a 5 m precision solid dish. And in Namibia (+/- 1500 km north of Capetown), the reception with a 4 m mesh dish was possible. The famous Schumacher (a German Farmer in Brazil, a fitter by trade) build himself a 11 m monster dish and receives analogue signals from Europe. How? Everyone is pointing to side lobe signals (small signals off the antenna's main beam), but for these signals the actual reception is too good. So the experts should come up at one day with a plausible explanation or better – facts, why a reception 1000s of km’s off the footprint, a reception is possible.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">Regards</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="color: black">nopfusch</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p> <span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nopfusch, post: 134863, member: 195487"] [color=black][color=black]I stay in South Africa (near Johannesburg). [/color] [color=black]There was an article in the TelesatelliteInternational Magazine where that Magazine wanted to find the reason of why was that reception possible, as chrislloret correctly says. Then the University of Stellenbosch (near Capetown) joint -in. They discovered that 4 or 5 analogue stations where possible to receive in Capetown, with a 4 m precision solid dish. In Johannesburg it was a 5 m precision solid dish. And in Namibia (+/- 1500 km north of Capetown), the reception with a 4 m mesh dish was possible. The famous Schumacher (a German Farmer in Brazil, a fitter by trade) build himself a 11 m monster dish and receives analogue signals from Europe. How? Everyone is pointing to side lobe signals (small signals off the antenna's main beam), but for these signals the actual reception is too good. So the experts should come up at one day with a plausible explanation or better – facts, why a reception 1000s of km’s off the footprint, a reception is possible.[/color] [color=black]Regards[/color] [color=black]nopfusch[/color] [font=Times New Roman] [/font] [/color] [/QUOTE]
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