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68.5 is interesting on C Band with a 3.8 mtr Lots to see! Regards to all Oldsat

I would not generally worry it is no noisy than an disecq drive, and will be a little quieter when driving a dish up to 1.2 Old Satellite

The mount is not noisy however their is a couple of points to observe 1. Do not use on a dish bigger than 1.2 it will break on a 1.8! 2. The reed sensor can give some positioning errors due to wear on the gears after a short period of time 1-2 years Old satellite

In general you will need a 3.0 Degree elevation above the horizon for reasonable levels of reception. Below this and you will find that the signal will degrade quickly and willgenerally be unstable dependent upon the ground noise at your location and also that of any obstuctions in line of...

Hi there, W4 east are ok and stable however Africa beams are not received on 42 East I have some partly reception on clear and perfect weather conditions. When there were analogues transponders a few years ago it was an easy task with bandwidth reduction however with Digitial it is much more...

I would confirm that in Europe (Belgium) on my 3.8 Mtr I have never seen 61.5West and I do have a clear view to the horizon and I have several very expensive feehorns includer circlar polirization and PLL lnbs. Would be great challenge on the west coast of Ireland with perhaps a 10 mtr though...

C band on 68.5 east muiltichoice - can be received in most areas of the UK on a high specification /quality solid 1.8/2.0 mtr mtr prime focus with an ADI feedhorn with a 15 k lnb. In Beligum W4 East is ok on a 3.8 mtr with ADI C 400 feedhorn and PLL LNB Kind Regards Old satellite

To receive nilesat Horizontal transponders you will dependent upon your location require a minimum of a 1.8 mrt and idearly a 2.4 mtr with both a professional feedhorn and LNB. In the mid east location of the UK a 2.0 mtr precision dish with ADI feed horn And a PLL LNB you can and will receive...

for those whom may be interested NSS806 it can be recieved in the UK and many parts of Europe quite easily with very good signal levels on A precision 2.0 mtr with a professional ADI feed horn ( KU and C band) There are more than 15 sats with C band recievable on the above set up Take a look...

Nilesat Horizontal channels are indeed much weaker than the Vertical, However with a very high quality set up you can receive the Horizontal channels on a "Precision" 2.0 mtr with a Professional "ADI" polorator matched feedhorn. Please note that this dish and feed will cost >£1500, however it...

Normally when you have just the rotation on the screen during boot up of the Echostar 3660 it is due to corruption of the recievers software. When you downloaded the new software did the installation complete normally? Kind Regards Oldsat

:) For those that are interested in receiving some USA bound signals there are approx 160 channels from the following satellites ( Please note that many are Latin Beamed channels! The channels are all in C band and are carried on 40.5 West NSS 806http://www.lyngsat.com/nss806.html min dish...

I would like to add from personnel experience that Patriot dishes are of good quality for the purchase cost.- there are better (and more expensive and certainly far worst. It is and always will be time consuming in the installation in "any" large dish, the petals normally take about a day to...

What are you hoping to recieve ? A 7.0 mtr dish could cost easily £20,000 for a high quality dish. Some times second are availible however transport cost are very high! - up to 5K dependent on location. Kind regards Old Satellite

Actually there are many DVD players in the USA that will actually play either a recorded region free or a region 2 coded disc. Pioneer USA DVD have a "remote" region code that will allow the playback of region encoded discs - output will be NTSC from the player. My own USA (110 volt) Pioneer...