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Hi All

I'm from the uk and a newbie to satellite stuff although I do have freesat from sky installed lol!!

I want to watch the following FTA foreign channels:

Channel A which is available on:-

Eurobird 2
Satellite Eurobird 2
Frequency 11585
Polarization Vertical
Symbol Rate 27500
FEC 3/4

Atlanticbird 2
Satellite Atlantic Bird 2
Frequency 12566
Polarization Vertical
Symbol Rate 27500
FEC 3/4

Nilesat
Satellite Nilesat
Frequency 11747
Polarization Vertical
Symbol Rate 27500
FEC 3/4

CHANNEL B which is available on:-
Satellite : PAS - 10
Transponder : 2c
Satellite Position : 68.5East
Frequency : 3783.25, FEC - 2/3
Symbol Rate : 3250
Polarization - Horizontal
OR
Satellite : ARABSAT BADR-2(2C)
Satellite Position : 26 East
Frequency : 3760 FEC:3/4
Polarization : Horizontal
Symbol Rate : 27500
OR
Satellite : ARABSAT BADR-3(3A)
Satellite Position : 26 East
Frequency : 11996 FEC:3/4
Polarization : Horizontal
Symbol Rate : 27500

CHANNEL C which is available on:-
30.5° East 12,661 Mhz Vertical 3/4 27,500 S/s Arabsat-2B
or
26° East 12,520 Mhz Vertical 3/4 27,500 S/s BADR-2

What do I need so I can watch these channels as cheaply as possible?

Thanks in advance
 

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A bloody big dish if you want all of them - motorised as well.:D

You can forget Eurobird 2, Nilesat, PAS-10, Badr-2 and Arabsat 2B in the UK with any sensible hobby sized dish.

You should get the first channel off 8W with a reasonable sized dish, Channel B will need an 80-100cm dish
 

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The first two channels, I guess Peace TV (26East) and Huda (8 West) should be OK with a 1 m motorised dish, depending on where you are in the UK. Not sure about the third one as you won't get 30.5 East without a big dish and as there are no channels that I can see that are common with the transponder most closely resembling the one you mention at 26E (not BADR-2).

It makes life easier if you give the names of the channels as well as the frequencies, as channels can be moved at short notice.
 

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Thanks for the replies so far

Channel A is http://www.huda.tv/defaultN.aspx?rt=4

Channel B is Peace Tv

Channel C is Al Majd tv http://www.arabsat.com/default/viewers/default/tvchannels/ChannelsDetails.aspx?FrequencyBandID=1&Technology=1&Category=7

I'm in Birmingham. I don't mind having a large dish but what I want to know is which way would the dish face to get the above compared to my sky digi dish so I can see if I have anywhere suitable to mount/place it?

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Well 26 East is right next door to where your sky dish is facing, but 8 West is 36 degrees around to the West.

the third channel does not appear to be listed anywhere apart from that site, this is what the other sites show.
 

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Which Al Majd do you want - theres 3 of them!

AM Space Channel
AM Holy Quran
AM Prophetic Hadeeth

:-rofl2
 

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A Majd isn't really a priority. Huda & Peace are the channels I really wanted.

rolfw the reason I asked about positioning is because due to the large trees in front of my house which block the signal my sky digi dish had to be mounted at the rear of my house on a tall pole so the dish looks over the roof of my house into the sky. I hope i'm making sense!

Is it going to be safe having a 1m+ motorised dish mounted on a pole like my sky dish is?
 
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