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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 248844" data-attributes="member: 192438"><p>Hang on, I hadn't finished the above post ...... was going to say, you can see the technical principles in my "guide" at <a href="http://www.satellites.co.uk/php-bin/forum/showthread.php?t=60042" target="_blank">http://www.satellites.co.uk/php-bin/forum/showthread.php?t=60042</a> .</p><p></p><p>Lots of free RAI - and other Italian - channels on Hotbird.</p><p></p><p>For what's there, just goto <a href="http://www.satcodx.com" target="_blank">www.satcodx.com</a> , look at Hotbird at 13E, and Astra1 19E. The free stuff is clearly shown, in different colour, so you can scroll through.</p><p></p><p>I assume the (dish) version you've got is the monobloc one, which will get both Hotbird and Astra1 on the fixed dish, but can't also get Sky on Astra2 (for which, you'd probably be best with a motorised dish, which the SL65 will drive, having Diseqc built in). Which means, what you've got can't easily get the free Sky English channels, unless you point the dish at Astra2, in which case you won't get Astra1/Hotbird.</p><p></p><p>At your location, with a 60 cm dish, it's probably about the same as at mine with 40cm, so you might find you don't get some Hotbird channels, or get fewer in bad weather, but hard to predict, so you'll just have to try it and see!</p><p></p><p>You can find maps of sat "footprints", showing how field strength from different satellites varies across the UK, but they don't help very much with reception prediciton, better just to try it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spiney, post: 248844, member: 192438"] Hang on, I hadn't finished the above post ...... was going to say, you can see the technical principles in my "guide" at [URL]http://www.satellites.co.uk/php-bin/forum/showthread.php?t=60042[/URL] . Lots of free RAI - and other Italian - channels on Hotbird. For what's there, just goto [url]www.satcodx.com[/url] , look at Hotbird at 13E, and Astra1 19E. The free stuff is clearly shown, in different colour, so you can scroll through. I assume the (dish) version you've got is the monobloc one, which will get both Hotbird and Astra1 on the fixed dish, but can't also get Sky on Astra2 (for which, you'd probably be best with a motorised dish, which the SL65 will drive, having Diseqc built in). Which means, what you've got can't easily get the free Sky English channels, unless you point the dish at Astra2, in which case you won't get Astra1/Hotbird. At your location, with a 60 cm dish, it's probably about the same as at mine with 40cm, so you might find you don't get some Hotbird channels, or get fewer in bad weather, but hard to predict, so you'll just have to try it and see! You can find maps of sat "footprints", showing how field strength from different satellites varies across the UK, but they don't help very much with reception prediciton, better just to try it! [/QUOTE]
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