Recent content by tas153

well ive had fun today! i got sirius (4.8e) at 100% lock, hotbird (13e)at 80%lock and nilesat (7w) at 100% lock the other side to hotbird. NO sign of 4w! its getting on my nerves! i was using an old lnb and i hope thats the cause. any ideas anyone?? looking at the dish, i have done as below...

hello all, ive got my hands on a 175cm dish. my logic says that if i set it on 4.8e and either side put 13e and 4w i should get them right??

im just trying to see whats possible from cyprus. thinking of amos2 (4w) and 36e...

does anyone know if there is a formula to calculate the dish size required if you are out of the footprint of a specific satellite? if you have the distance, elevation, azimuth,etc...

if irakleio needs 1mtr and tel aviv 3 mtrs then paphos half way 1.5mtrs :-thumb1 thanks all!

i haven't updated my setup but i have a)hotbird+ astra 4a (sirius) ,B) hotbird with quad lnb to go to 4 seperate receivers, abs1 @75e and nilesat. i pick up dvb-t for cyprus only.i have a total of 6 receivers as so there is no fighting in my house!:)

Thanks to all, i have realized that for the european beam i will require at least a1.5 dish. my wife is not happy as i already have 4 1mtr dishes and 2 uhf antennas on the roof already! :-rub

i have the viasat ukraine package and it requires hotbird, astra 4a (sirius) and amos. i am a satellite technician but never installed amos! i have a horizon meter and the only settings i can load onto the meter says "H amos2". it doesn't say weather its european beam or middle east beam. does...

can i receive amos2 at 4w in cyprus? what size dish?

thanks all, if anything else is heard please post it here!!

do you know if they are changing thier transmissions?

does anyone know if there is anything changing with the nova transmission? something to do with mpeg4 encoding? also will the dm500 work if the transmission changes? thanks in advance:):)

my first post so please excuse:) i am trying to get 13e and 9e on a 100cm dish. also if possible 23.5e what do i need? any help anyone?