is it possible to recieve astra uk with mesh dish 3 meter?

is it possible to recieve astra uk 28 east with mesh dish size 3 meter?

location Saudi Arabia west

Almost certainly not.

I can neither find, nor can I recall, any reports of successful reception of Astra 2E, 2F, 2G in Saudi Arabia.

Certainly, Astra 2E cannot be received further north west in Cyprus with even a 4.2m Dish, so I should put your chances at zero, however big a dish you use.

Apart from the dish size, you also cannot use a mesh dish (BUD), as they mostly are engineered to support C-band. C-band is very popular in the middle-east and Africa.
However, UK channels on 28.2E is Ku band only.
The Ku-band would slip right through the reflector (or scatter diffusely, I believe it is).
You would need a large metal dish, or a large SMC (plastic) dish to receive Ku band.

But as Lazarus points out, it is very very very unlikely that you can receive anything because of the limits of the footprint.
Even with a very large (5m+) dish.

A broadband connection and a proxy is probably easier and more cost-effective. Unless of course there are regulatory reasons that would prevent a broadband connection like that.

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thank you guys

Some info.....

If a satellite is below your viewing horizon (the Earth is in the way) you would not be able to receive it.

However the satellites he is looking for may be viewable if the dish size is big enough, how big is a question for the size of your pocket book.

Astra 2E has a middle East spot beam, what is on that beam I have know idea, but it is visible at that location, it may not be receivable, but it's visible.

All satellites have a bit of side scatter to the beams used to supply signals to special locations, this side scatter is receivable if the dish is big enough and you have the correct equipment to decode the signals, a 3 meter "C" band dish could be used for "kU" band if the mesh is small enough, and you have a "kU" band LNBF on it, so if you can fit a #2 wooden pencil through the mesh it's too big for "kU" band.

But at your location you would need a much larger dish.

I have a friend that works at a special monitoring site, this site is in South America, he uses the large dish (20 meter) at that location to watch American satellite TV (with a subbed receiver) when he gets the time.

Terryl said:

I have a friend that works at a special monitoring site, this site is in South America, he uses the large dish (20 meter) at that location to watch American satellite TV (with a subbed receiver) when he gets the time.

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At that size of dish does he have to follow the satellite's movement as it tries to incline and then get brought back into line?

PaulR said:

At that size of dish does he have to follow the satellite's movement as it tries to incline and then get brought back into line?

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Generaly termed sat wobble in lay mans terms

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