Recent content by andrewcrawford

yeah i wouldnt expect a bird to have it same lifespan if they have to use more fuel to correct it orbit, that why if they develop a bird that could correct itself via eletrcity from solar panels they might be in luck

yes all PBS chanels will eventally switch over so you will lose them a bigger dish might work the problem is the beam has steep drop off from it edge so fringe areas will require much larger this is example but its not a garantee nor worked otu size lets say you live in madrid and that is the...

yip and if they choose ariane again that will say something that there needing either 2e there asap because of 2a or 2b failing or because they need those two as backup somewhere else one of the birds might be failing, or any the other birds they have there just temporary as back to 2a/2b/1n and...

once th switch over is finished expect to lose them all, but i think teh full switch to spot beam wont be completel until 2015 due to new birds launching and exculisity deals with sky still runing

I have a feel they will go with ariane they seem to bne more reliable

Which i understand and it why i will try work out the beam and possible size needed in fringe areas to try help expats potential get it back if they want to try the dish sizes but i wont say wha ti think will be required until i see more receptions report i dnt want ot get people hopes up but i...

no offense to expats but it was your decision to leave the uk, so by leaving you forfeited your right to the channels you think are yours, that like saying if i move to america its my right to receive channels i got in the uk im not i either dnt move or accept whats available there

im going to make a prediction for 2E i got some things right about 2F especially the drop off but i got the areas it drop off wrong, still to see some reports from Iceland and north of Scotland once i get that i am pretty confident i can draw the actually beam although canaries seems to have...

sorry been busy not been able to keep up has more trasnpdners move over? and one that werent expected to move?

i still think they will do the trasnfer 1st or 2nd week in december before the sky lock down, they do seem behind on there schedule maybe there found some problems and there trying to fix it soehow

its possible but i be more inclined to say 6m to really get it without pixaltion

time will tell hopefully i am worng but i wasnt far off how bad the beam would be when i predicted although i didnt take into accoutn the elicptal shape mean sotuhern east spain would get more power

if it caused by wobble and it not fixing itself quickly that coul mean the stabliser aint wokring which would be bad news for ses good news for expat becaus ethe bird not function for long, but i honestly think ses has delibrate moved it

im not saying they are trying to stop all fringe receptions its impossible firstly there is always goign to be blips in the beam, secondly as you said peopel will buy bigger dishes, yes there main focus is to make sur ethe uk gets teh signal as strog as possible, but they will try make it harder...

they dnt have much room to alter it, all they can do is move the bird into a slight different angle, move the bird a fraction off 28.2E and reduce power, the beam is fixed now it cant be changed