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Monday, 15 September 2014
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Mike Davison11:05 PM
John: Exact figures are not quoted by Astra-SES, the satellite owners, for the new UK only beams carrying BBC, ITV, Ch4 and Ch5 but 80cm is probably much too small now for your location. Pick is carried on an unchanged wide(and powerful)beam so that is why you are still getting it. A bigger dish is needed for BBC etc. but its size will be subject to experimentation, possibly as big as 2metres.
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Tuesday, 16 September 2014
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John4:10 PM
Mike & Mike
Tanks for your responses, we have been told a bigger dish would be needed for BBC/ITV, maybe something I'll look into on a later date. I did et the ITV channels for a couple of days when they first installed the 80cm dish, but after a couple of days they went. For now I think I'll try a 'Freesat' box, as Mike P suggested. I'm looking at the Manhattan Plaza HD-S2. Seems to have good reviews and for around 50GBP on Amazon..
Thanks again.
John
P.S Not that it matters, but I'm N/W Czech not N/E as I stated in my first post.
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Mike Davison10:02 PM
John:
I don't think your receiver matters. The integrated satellite receiver in your Philips TV should be adequate. Dish size and LNB spec' are more important. You may get a better EPG and text services with a Freesat receiver however but until you get a watchable signal from the tight beams I should hang fire.
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John10:24 PM
Mike, I'm not really up on sat systems but I looked at one of the 'Program Scrambled' channels 329 Dave, and the tv displays the below:
Transponder: 11993 MHz / Horizontal / 27500 kS/s
Signal Strength: 55
Signal quality: 100 (BER:0.0 X 1E-6)
Is this telling me the signal is there, but I just need the appropriate receiver to view it?
(Most other FTV channels show similar figures)
Thanks for your help as I'm getting a bit bored of the few channels I can watch....!
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KMJ,Derby10:44 PM
John: Dave on satellite is part of a Sky subscription package, so will appear scrambled on equipment which is only suitable for FTA reception.
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Mike Davison10:45 PM
John:
Dave is only available through a UK Sky package. It is carried on the Astra 2A satellite on a wide beam and in the Czech Republic you only need the same size dish as the UK. Copyright issues are protected by the Sky Videoguard scrambling. As BBC etc are free to view(not scrambled) only a receiver is needed but copyright still has to be protected and this is being done by tightly focussed beams on the UK and signal levels fall rapidly outside the distorted ellipse that covers the UK. It's only a guess but I should think in terms of 1.5 to 2metres for the tight UK beams of Astra 2E and 2F.
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Mike Davison10:57 PM
John:
I should add that BBC, ITV, Ch4 and Ch5 satellite signals have no scrambled counterparts in the Sky subscription package so that route doesn't exist for you. Sky and Freesat use the same free to view services.
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Wednesday, 17 September 2014
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John12:01 PM
Thank you all for your advice, it looks like all the channels that are there but scrambled are from Sky, I was thinking Dave was a freesat FTV. Oh well looks like I'll have to get a bigger dish and a Sky subscription to stand a chance of watching UK channels. Or wait till they go to internet..
Thanks again.
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patricia12:44 PM
Coalville
Mike Davison: we have BT infinity broadband plus extre channels through their set top box why is the signal only breaking up on BBC 1 and 2 and the national geographic channel
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Mike Davison4:02 PM
patricia: I have no experience using BT's infinity TV services over broadband so cannot advise.
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