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Okay, as the BBC channels are already on the new spotbeam I think it's time to safely check out the receiption: I'm living at 49° 50.210', 8° 13.173' in a village called Undenheim. Sadly my set-top boxes don't mention any receiption strengthes in dB only in percentages. About the weather...

Oops, error, I guess I'm in West Germany after all (any mod: feel free to remove this post, sorry for the inconvenience).

Okay, disregard what I said here. I rechecked and got caught by my excitement. I did indeed do a blind-scan on Thursday - and no hit on 11728 V - why? Because 11728 and 11739 V carry the same channels. So I guess 11739 V is the actual transponder and as the 11728 is far weaker, it might just be...

I can confirm 11728V contains several channels - and they are not listed on lyngsat or kingofsat.

The Black Ultra certainly made a change.. I had another LNB before.. and the Black Ultra visibly raised the receiption bars on Astra 1. I first replaced the LNB and then rotated the dish.. as I do not assume a major weather change.. my quality levels increased by about 10% - the old LNB was...

Personally I'd say it would be a good idea to do the following: In my opinion the current pinkish dots to indicate no receiption are not too helpful.. pins seem to be a good idea to me! But: keep them coloured.. I think it would not be just important to know if receiption is possible or not...

I can basically harden my report.. I have now modified the dish and turned it into a multi-feed (Astra 2F being nearly centred.. my multifeed thing does not allow centering it totally so it's having a minor offset).. result over 3 days of testing (modification done Saturday morning).. the...

Yeah, it seems so.. West of Frankfurt everything is great.. and yes, my town is tiny - 2000 people .. but I am indeed living at the Southern end which is great.. looking South all I see is fields.. I guess that's good because the dish is standing on the ground in the garden ^^ making it easy to...

Well, I was waiting for some channels to be added on the satellite.. main reason: I plan to modify my new dish once again to receive UK TV.. I recently moved and I decided to wait until Astra 2F reports are in. Today I only rotated the existing dish and I replaced the LNB with an Inverto Black...

I saw this information on ***'s Satellite TV too.. would you mind sharing the source of that because I wonder where it is coming from..

Well, for Germany... I fear we'll soon need an update of that map if things come as expected. _http://sat.beitinger.de/astra_2d_english.html For the rest: We'll know in 6 to 9 months I'd say! Is there a launch date for Astra 2F?

Okay, you're right! Without a doubt... what I was trying to get on was.. we'll most likely have clarity about the "general fringe" receiption once 2F is up. I doubt they can use the experience of 2F to finetune 2E.. maybe 2G. But of course.. coldspots and such.. are something else.

Well.. you know.. there's also a positive aspect about 2F, 2E and 2G. Because: it seems they all will have the same spot... so the perfect thing will be: In one year, we'll know how to receive 2F - and we'll also know if it's worth it. And: more importantly.. once 2F is flying.. 2E and 2G will...

Well, currently I have a 95cm (a Fuba one - so it seems to be very well manufactored) dish south of Frankfurt (Darmstadt) - I was able to get it by my landlady... she was ripped off by the installer who when she went digital for 19.2°E - he installed an additional 60cm dish (if I was already...

Well.. on German forums people already discuss it too.. the signal strength for UK is very strong as usual.. considering 45cm dishes are somewhat popular. Again like Astra 1N they only seem to release the footprint for small dishes while it remains unknown on how strong it will be outside these...