OT: Satellite Sysems - in france

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Alex

Guest

• Dec 2, 2004

• #1

I know this is OT, but does anybody know of any problems with
attempting to recieve Sky Satellite Digital transmissions in France.
Surely it's just a case of aligning the dish correctly, or would it
require a bigger dish than those small digtal dishes?

PS. How DO you align a sky dish?

Alex

 

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Dougal

Guest

• Dec 2, 2004

• #2

> I know this is OT, but does anybody know of any problems with
> attempting to recieve Sky Satellite Digital transmissions in France.
> Surely it's just a case of aligning the dish correctly, or would it
> require a bigger dish than those small digtal dishes?
>
> PS. How DO you align a sky dish?
>
> Alex

Have a look at this. It's somewhere to start.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/de.sullivan/

 

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Mother

Guest

• Dec 3, 2004

• #3

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:50:36 GMT, Alex <[email protected]>
wrote:

>PS. How DO you align a sky dish?

Maplin. Little (non returnable) alignment box. I have something
similar, which does far less and cost nearly a Grand. 20 odd quid
from Maplin is a far better bet, IMO

 

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Bob Hobden

Guest

• Dec 3, 2004

• #4

"Alex" wrote
>I know this is OT, but does anybody know of any problems with
> attempting to recieve Sky Satellite Digital transmissions in France.
> Surely it's just a case of aligning the dish correctly, or would it
> require a bigger dish than those small digtal dishes?
>
> PS. How DO you align a sky dish?
>

Friends of mine moved from N. Cornwall to the Toulouse region and have Sky
so it's certainly possible.

--
Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London

 

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Lee_D

Guest

• Dec 4, 2004

• #5

"Bob Hobden" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Alex" wrote
>>I know this is OT, but does anybody know of any problems with
>> attempting to recieve Sky Satellite Digital transmissions in France.
>> Surely it's just a case of aligning the dish correctly, or would it
>> require a bigger dish than those small digtal dishes?
>>
>> PS. How DO you align a sky dish?
>>
>
> Friends of mine moved from N. Cornwall to the Toulouse region and have Sky
> so it's certainly possible.
>
> --
> Regards
> Bob
> In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London
>

We got it in the caravan down in Biarritz this summer with a mini dish and
standard Pace box. Bigger dishes are ok for better reception but more tricky
to set up. Any further south and I recon we'd be pushing our luck.

Lee D

 

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Mother

Guest

• Dec 4, 2004

• #6

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 22:55:55 -0000, "Bob Hobden" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Friends of mine moved from N. Cornwall to the Toulouse region and have Sky
>so it's certainly possible.

The sky is not always 'up'. sure, it looks like it, but it can
sometimes be sideways, occasiobally 'down'. I once did an uplink
whilst the dish was pointing 'down' toward a local church. The tech
on that job did 'Songs of Praise' a few weeks later, we all had a
drink to celebrate God knowing the sky is not always 'up'

(I'm no expert on broadcast sats, by the way).

 

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The Becketts

Guest

• Dec 16, 2004

• #7

After finishing my training as a rtelecoms tech back in the Sixties, my first
3 jobs were worokiong on satellite earth stations (for Aussies - in Moree,
Ceduna and Carnarvon).

I dunno about Sky but some satellite service providers use antennae which put
a "shaped" footprint onto the ground and which can omit large areas. Yiou
need to know the footprint of the antennae (many satellites have multiple
antennae with different radiation patterns.

Ron Beckett
Emu Plains, Australia
1995 P38A Range Rover HSE 4.6 Litre V8


"Bob Hobden" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Alex" wrote
> >I know this is OT, but does anybody know of any problems with
> > attempting to recieve Sky Satellite Digital transmissions in France.
> > Surely it's just a case of aligning the dish correctly, or would it
> > require a bigger dish than those small digtal dishes?
> >
> > PS. How DO you align a sky dish?
> >
>
> Friends of mine moved from N. Cornwall to the Toulouse region and have Sky
> so it's certainly possible.
>
> --
> Regards
> Bob
> In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London
>
>

 

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Si K

Guest

• Dec 16, 2004

• #8

<snip>
> "Bob Hobden" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>
>> "Alex" wrote
>> >I know this is OT, but does anybody know of any problems with
>> > attempting to recieve Sky Satellite Digital transmissions in France.
>> > Surely it's just a case of aligning the dish correctly, or would it
>> > require a bigger dish than those small digtal dishes?
>> >
>> > PS. How DO you align a sky dish?
>> >
>>
>> Friends of mine moved from N. Cornwall to the Toulouse region and have
>> Sky
>> so it's certainly possible.

go here http://www.satellites.co.uk/ and have a shufty in the forums

All the details there about what you need to do to reeive sky as far south
as Tenerife

regds

Si

 

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Aled

Guest

• Dec 17, 2004

• #9

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> I dunno about Sky but some satellite service providers use antennae which put
> a "shaped" footprint onto the ground and which can omit large areas. Yiou
> need to know the footprint of the antennae (many satellites have multiple
> antennae with different radiation patterns.

You mean like this:
http://www.brymar.co.uk/info/Astra/astra.html

Cheers,
Aled.