Nilesat 201

solly said:
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the astra 2a south beam are you receiver transponder south beam ?
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Only Astra 2B North beam side-lobe.
 
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Hi all I discovered this forum while researching the possibility of receiving AD Sports here in Istanbul. After much going around in circles, and following the various migrations of these channels (a number of sites selling ADMC subs still mention Atlantic Bird 4A but that appears to be history) I eventually worked out that I need to get a dish and point it at either Nilesat 201 at 7W or Badr6 at 26E. I then looked at the official footprints and my feeling from them was that the drop off for Badr6 appeared sharper and that I'd need a much bigger dish than I would for Nilesat 201. I used this site to compare the footprints as it lets me zoom in and see my location clearly in relation to the footprint:

www.satbeams.com/footprints?beam=6392


So I printed this out and than sketched rough lines in the same shape as the footprint going outwards with the same gap in between as the outer lines on the footprint, decreasing 1dBW at a time, until I reached Istanbul and came up with a ballpark figure of needing a 120cm dish. Now I'm a total beginner to all this, so go easy on me, but am I likely to be in the right ballpark here? Or is the decrease in dBW with distance unlikely to be as uniform as in my imaginary World? Is it a realistic possibility to receive a signal where I am do you think? I've scoured this and many other forums and can't find any examples of people mentioning what dish size they are using for receiving Nilesat 201 in Istanbul or indeed any part of Turkey. So I figured I'd ask here in this thread. Cheers Oliver
 
I cannot tell you for sure about the needed diameter for Nilesat 201 in Istanbul but let me tell you that in Thessaloniki it works. On the other hand Eutelsat 7W A the successor of Atlantic Bird 4A even on 3m is very weak. The Nilesat 101/102 are getting more and more empty so even that a 1.20m suffices it's a matter of time until they will be switched off. I'd recommend you to start reading here in a local based forum:

www.turkeyforum.com/satforum/forumdisplay.php?f=48
 
Hello oviano welcome to the forum..

Unfortunately out of area reception is not an exact science - its more a case of try it and see.You may find a 1.2m is acceptable or you may need something much bigger.
 
Analoguesat said:
Hello oviano welcome to the forum..

Unfortunately out of area reception is not an exact science - its more a case of try it and see.You may find a 1.2m is acceptable or you may need something much bigger.
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Thanks Analoguesat. Yes, it seems quite hard to work out!

Since my post I looked at a Badr6 fringe reception thread on here and read about someone receiving a strong signal up in Normandy, France on a 1.2m dish. So maybe I'm also being too hasty in writing off Bard6 because the distance between Normandy and the outer edges of the Badr6 footprint is much greater than the distance between Istanbul and the outer edges.

And admittedly the Badr footprint does cover a greater proportion of Turkey too.

Hmmm....
 
deepbluesky said:
I cannot tell you for sure about the needed diameter for Nilesat 201 in Istanbul but let me tell you that in Thessaloniki it works. On the other hand Eutelsat 7W A the successor of Atlantic Bird 4A even on 3m is very weak. The Nilesat 101/102 are getting more and more empty so even that a 1.20m suffices it's a matter of time until they will be switched off. I'd recommend you to start reading here in a local based forum:www.turkeyforum.com/satforum/forumdisplay.php?f=48
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Thanks for the info - Thessaloniki gives me some hope.
 
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