Anyone understand satellites?

[nickbro]

Astra 2F is going to take over from the temp 1N sat, which will reposition to the rest of the Astra 1 cluster, thus why the footprints are near identical

[tmcd35]

I remember reading about a chap in USA/Mexico who has an 8 metre dish and a super cooled LNB. He was able to receive channels from Astra 19.2 at certain times of the day.

AFAIK 19.2E was used by the old Astra 1 series analogue satellites that, according to the @nickbro above didn't use spot beams. I'm guessing the signal had bounced off the atmosphere in a similar fashion to picking up LW radio from the continent? I'm sure the curviture of the earth makes direct line reception impossible from there. Any how I doubt such extreme measure would work on modern satellites with tight transmissions beams - kind of the whole point of them using spot beams

[jinnantonnixx]

Aprenda a falar o português e apenas assistir a televisão local

That's easy for you to say.

[laserblazer]

Aprenda a falar o português e apenas assistir a televisão local

We are trying to learn it but it ain't easy and the dialect in the Algarve is very different to Lisbon. Not only that but Coroação Rua is cr@p

We do have a separate dish on the European satellite and we can get German and Dutch, which we can follow. One of the German channels broadcasts every F1 event, so it's not all gloom and doom. There are also loads of XXX channels, which is interesting because the EPG shows a thumbnail. It can get quite embarrassing searching for stations.

[RabbieBurns]

a lot of the European satellites broadcast a dual audio stream on their programs, so you can change it and watch it in English, especially for the American shows which are dubbed in the local language.

[laserblazer]

a lot of the European satellites broadcast a dual audio stream on their programs, so you can change it and watch it in English, especially for the American shows which are dubbed in the local language.

I did look on the menu to see if it offered this but the menu is in Portuguese

[Cloud2012]

Even more reason to get a decent (for your country) internet connection, a VPN and get your streams on

This is what I currently do now as I moved into a new place, I used to have a 1m motorised dish picking up over 20 satellites and it would even get channels from Africa (36 east). I now pay for a service in Sweden called ViaPlay for movies and sports and with a VPN it works great.

[m25man]

It doesn't look good for the ex pats The Astra 2 Forum www.astra2.org - Astra 2F Reception

Im guessing the reason for the tighter beam width and focus is primarily to improve reception in the target footprint whilst keeping transponder power usage as low as possible.
A side effect is keeping the broadcast contained within UK borders thus complying with the distribution rights of the content owners.

A user has reported Ch5 @ 45% Signal on a 1.5 Mtr dish which isn't good, jumping to 3mtrs might help (whilst it still bleeds and can be seen you have a chance) but I would expect SRS will gradually reduce power or even use some kind of dynamic TX control which will tweak output based on the UK weather.

Either way it sounds like its time to get used to the local programming

[tmcd35]

Surely there must be some way to do some internet jiggery pockery to get web based services like TV Catch-Up, iPlayer, 4OD, etc to work? No need for a 20m dish clinging precariously to your roof tiles or a second home on the isle of sheppey just to host a slingbox

[sted]

Surely there must be some way to do some internet jiggery pockery to get web based services like TV Catch-Up, iPlayer, 4OD, etc to work? No need for a 20m dish clinging precariously to your roof tiles or a second home on the isle of sheppey just to host a slingbox

well i use a firefox plugin called modify headers to fool american tv sites into letting me watch them from the uk (since more4 removed the daily show) google modify headers daily show

[SteveBentley]

Im guessing the reason for the tighter beam width and focus is primarily to improve reception in the target footprint whilst keeping transponder power usage as low as possible.
A side effect is keeping the broadcast contained within UK borders thus complying with the distribution rights of the content owners.

I suspect the rights owners are the main reason for this. For a while certain ITV regions weren't available on Freesat (you got a neighbouring region) because there wasn't space on the UK beams for them. They went onto a wider beam and had to be encrypted, so weren't available to Freesat, only Sky.

The broadcasters have to pay Sky for the encryption platform, so being able to use a UK targetted beam is cheaper for them.

[sted]

I suspect the rights owners are the main reason for this. For a while certain ITV regions weren't available on Freesat (you got a neighbouring region) because there wasn't space on the UK beams for them. They went onto a wider beam and had to be encrypted, so weren't available to Freesat, only Sky.

The broadcasters have to pay Sky for the encryption platform, so being able to use a UK targetted beam is cheaper for them.

is that why dave isnt on freesat but is on freeview/sky for instance?

[Michael]

is that why dave isnt on freesat but is on freeview/sky for instance?

Sky pay certain channels to keep them exclusive to Sky on satellite. This is how/why in a of respects they have the majority of the market.