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Saw this old doc about the closure of AM Radio Luxembourg in 1992.. they announced that they would now broadcast in digital stereo from the Astra satellite. Was it actually digital then?

Is the new 15West feed receivable in north / north west spain?

With skywaves can a signal be stronger further away than nearer the source? I understand that Radio Luxembourg had a stronger night-time signal in northern England than the south

what causes this change? Is it better at night / daytime?

Damn, that's my astrophysics career over

I was imagining that the inclined orbit was a cycle and at some point the satellite would naturally return to geostationary, but it actually continually drifts away and would need to expend fuel to return to geostationary? Is that right? Sorry for being so ignorant on this!

Seeing as 28.2 is quite underutilised, could SES move everything to 2 satellites and allow one to drift into inclined orbit to save fuel? (with a view to brining it back in service for a kind of bare bones freesat offering when the fuel on the others runs out)

can offset dishes be any larger or would you have to switch to prime focus?

can you not get higher band UK spot beam?

Lol, this is so Spain

would a perfectly aligned dish on 28.2 still face some interference from 26e? i.e. if all the 26E sats disappeared one day, would the signal improve (even if very marginally)?

Is Badr-8 interference likely to impact 28.2 reception in the Valencia region?

what does 'high selectivity capacity' mean? (photo)

"A private firm, Arqiva, owns and operates the Droitwich transmitter in Worcestershire as well as two additional transmitters in Scotland. All three broadcast Radio 4 long wave on the 198 kilohertz frequency." doesn't this cause interference?

thanks. there is DC power within the coaxial. The cabinet doesn't have any external power