Satellites available in Ireland

rogue-entity

What sattelites can you receive in Ireland, particularly those showing English Language programming. The only ones that I know of are Hotbird (13E) Astra 1 (19.2E) Astra 2/Eurobird 1(28.2/28.3E).

L1011

Very little more with English language content FTA, but there are about 50-60 birds 'visible' from 50W-50E - which is what you can expect to get if you've got clear views of the sky to the south and decent elevation.

30W (Hispasat), 5W (AB3), 4W (Amos), 1W (Thor/Intelsat10-2), 5E (Sirius), 10E (W1), 16E (W2), 23.5E (Astra 3A/1D) would be the most populated positions that can be received here with varyingly large dishes.

St Senan

I didnt think Amos 4w could be received in Ireland

L1011

scaller wrote:

I didnt think Amos 4w could be received in Ireland

Big enough dish will do it, what did you think all the Ukranians were watching for TV from home?

1.8 or 2m would do it. In good weather...

St Senan

Any Ukranian i have dealt with were looking for Sirius 5e.
The footprint on this link does not show Ireland for Amos 2
http://www.amos-spacecom.com/UserFiles/Image/Amos-2_EU_big.gif

watty

There may be 50 visible birds, but only about 25 with footprints you can actually receive. A 1.4m gives a bit more than 80cm, but mostly makes marginal signals or feeds watchable, rather than any great quantity of satellites.

L1011

scaller wrote:

Any Ukranian i have dealt with were looking for Sirius 5e.
The footprint on this link does not show Ireland for Amos 2
http://www.amos-spacecom.com/UserFiles/Image/Amos-2_EU_big.gif

Thats because that footprint only goes to (about) the 1.2M 'line'.

Astra 2D doesn't have Jordan on its footprint and it can be received there (with a 7m dish) and neither does Astra 2C have Brazil on its and it can be received there (with a 9m concerete dish ).

Right, they're slightly OTT examples, but you can get Amos here with about a 2M dish, in the right conditions. theres a 1.8 on a house opposite me that I suspect is being used for it also but I've not gone and asked them...

watty - and of those 25, at least a few are C-band and may as well be written off

rogue-entity

I thought that most birds W of 0 would have been destined for US use rather then European use, but I suppose at 36000KM you can see both Ireland and the US. I am of course most interested in trying to acquire US Television feeds, but that is next to impossible because the sats are mostly below the horizon. Although I am curious to know how NASN/Setanta and ITV manage to get their feeds for US sports events and the Superbowl respectivly. As well as how Sky News can broadcast CBS news and BBC can show ABC.

Anyway, when I get around to it in a while, I will get a nice 2M motorised dish, and a dreambox. I already have an old analogue videocrypt IRD (but there are few analogue transmissions anymore IIRC).

Anyway, on a similar matter. What "european" sats (such as Astra 2) can be received in North America. I heard tale of a pub in Canada using a PAL TV and showing Sky television. The person that posted that (on another forum) did not tell if it was Sky Digital or Sky Analogue. The reason I say this is because if I go to the US, I would love to be able to get the normal BBC/ITV channels over there.

L1011

Fibre or by using a bird that allows bouncing - e.g. one mid-atlantic can be seen on the US east coast and across Europe.

Sky analogue would, in theory, have been possible with a BLOODY HUGE dish in, say, NY in 1998 or so. Digital is impossible, the satellites elevation is negative. 19.2E Analogue has been received in Brazil - wrong hempisphere in both ways - and Ghana - wrong hemisphere again.

bauderline

I think Atlantic Bird 1,2 and 3 carry a fair amount of trans atlantic feeds. Checkout the yahoo feedhunters forum for good tips on current feeds.

I have often watched a spot of golf on Atlantic Bird ....

baud.

watty

MSNBC feed is FTA often on 15W as DAD-2 or DAD-5

watty

Fibre is much cheaper than satellite for 24/7 feeds. Satellite feeds often used
1) feed TX sites not cabled
2) Occasional feeds
3) Mobile occasional uplink

Ulsterman 1690

Im getting Turksat (42 East) here in Belfast on an 80cm dish albeit with a bit of fade/breakup on rainy (or even cloudy) days

I think the fact that its low in the sky contributes to the rain fade in that the signal has to travel through more of the athmosphere (just a thory I could be completly wrong)

Not all the Turksat transponders are on the West beam but quite a good few of them are. There are a couple of English language channels but none that cannot be got elsewhere (in any case theyre evangelical rubbish)

They seem to have a lot of channels in Turkey. In programming terms they all look pretty rubbish (and I have it on pretty good authority that theyre even worse if you actually understand the language) although Ive heard that people who are into football appreciate the fact that they carry a lot of games FTA that are only available on $ky (if at all) here !

Quite when it comes to satellite virtually anything of interest is going to be on either 13 19 or 28. Only if one has a particular interest in Scandanavian, Greek, French, Turkish or perhaps certain Arabic channels (although the majority of the latter are available on Horbird) does one need to look any further

Zaphod

rogue-entity wrote:

I heard tale of a pub in Canada using a PAL TV and showing Sky television. The person that posted that (on another forum) did not tell if it was Sky Digital or Sky Analogue.

St Johns, Newfoundland is about as easterly as you can get in North America and Astra 1D 23E is the last sat on the horizon. Astra 19E is at 4 deg elevation.
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/aminet/pix/map/Canada.jpg

Boston: Sirius 5E @ 2 deg
NYC: Sirius 5E @ 0.2 deg (unless you happen to own one of those wonderful wavebending dishes from Walmart which can pick up both Astra 28E and Mullaghanish in the Bronx. A snip at only $129.)

As to the original query about English language content channels, then the Arabic ones on 26E and 30E have a load of FTA American films, series etc, both in analog/digital and C/Ku bands.

troyblue

Here in Sligo i get feeds on 16,13,10,and 7e and 30w with an 80cm dish
Theres a CBS ~New York feed FTA on 16e intermittently
http://www.satelliweb.com/index.php?section=livef
great resource for the latest feeds

Medceltic

joined Hotbird dish and Astra germany dish both 75% signal with DiSEq 2.0...
l lost many Hotbird Channels saying no signal..
Ferguson 500 HD receiver.
any chance ???

Other question can l get any satellite FTR with french or English channels maybe Arabs ?!
Wish Sky dish..
thanks guys