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61.5°w??????
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I am getting a very faint signal from this sat. It is constantly breaking up. Totally unwatchable but I am still getting a signal 12442 seems to be the strongest, Can anyone else confirm this??
I am using a 2.4m Prime focus on west cost of Ireland. I can more or less see a test card from Dish network on 12473. In saying that it is constantly breaking up,hardly a picture there at all.
I am using a 2.4m Prime focus on west cost of Ireland. I can more or less see a test card from Dish network on 12473. In saying that it is constantly breaking up,hardly a picture there at all.
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I can now not detect anything from that sat PAS 9 is furthest I can get. Can anyone else plese confirm they can receive 61.5???
I saw your post on the OTHER FORUM and I left you a message there.
You said in your post (on the other forum) that you had a clear view straight across the Atlantic. Have you therefore tried going further west? Unfortunately, 61.5°W isn't all that interesting, not after they dumped the exciting VOOM package, as I think you would agree: It carries one local affiliate station of ABC, one big city CBS station in HDTV, and then some WB, UPN and PBS local stations. That's about about it. The rest are all just foreign stations. You don't get NBC or FOX.
The 72.5°W slot (DirecTV) at least has all the networks, but also nothing else.
The 82°W slot is the one I would be interested in.
However, I was thinking this thread is actually about the satellites far west - the east ones are rather for Russia and the like.
82°w would only have an elevation of 2° in the very westerly points of Ireland, making very difficult to lock up.
You should be able to 'see' 72.5°w in the west coast of Ireland (dish elevation 8°), but if you would get anything from the footprint would be anyones guess!
No I cant get nothing from 72.5w,nor can I get anything from 61.5w today dispite having a bit of signal.
I read of a guy in Brazil who got reception o Astra 1
Yes, but he said (in another thread) he has a clear view straight across the Atlantic! Which means, he will be able to point the dish at every satellite down to 0° elevation, literally, although as some people may rightly point out, there may also follow a sharp incresase in atmospheric noise as he approaches absolute 0°.
The furthest I can get is 61.5w. I have a signal but cant find any channels or feeds etc.
Yes, this is (mostly) true. You just have to look at the satellite pages on Lyngsat, and you'll see that most of the (Ku-band) transponders are marked with L and R (rather than H and V)!
BSB used Right Hand Circular, from memory. However, a Squarial is FAR too small to get a US satellite on...
Jodrell Bank was most likely picking up feeds on a satellite thats not being used for DTH reception.
Also, have you seen how bloody big a 5 metre dish is?
No? 5 metres I'm guessing?
It sounds an awful lot smaller than it is
a 5 meter dish in yer garden is quite similar to having a Transit van parked there. Not a chance it won't get seen by your neighbours/council planners/etc
Had one of those spit yer drink out moments reading that. Thanks
out of interest, its was 9m
Close enough to observatory size then.
9 meter diameter is larger than many houses gardens...