Astra 1D 23.5E

bigpaddy2004

Could someone, with the knowledge, please tell me is it possible to recieve the above satellite with an ordinary Sky 60cm dish reliably. I know its ok in places like cork, Waterford, Kerry, etc, but what is it like from the Midlands and on upwards? This is just to resolve an on going dishpute.

watty

There appear to be at least two beams, one is German Beam. On 80cm dish I get about 50% quality on Ct24 (Czech news?), and on the Casablanca data service, but the German stations barely lock.

On a 110 dish, the German stations are nearly OK but still too weak for rain. The Czech and Data services no problem.

So the answer I would think be:
In Waterford the German beam *MIGHT* be just receivable on 60cm but more west it would not.

The Czech stations on a whatever unlisted beam might be not bad when not raining on 60cm dish in Waterford. But I'd guess ropy in Midlands and Kerry.

If you mean by "receive" watch German channels in normal rain, I'd think not.

There is only a few FTA channels and some Internet data and Casablanca. Most of it is paytv.

SES-Astra gave me a 90/95cm Triax when giving other folks a 80cm dish for that satellite for Casablanca. Which is one of the stronger transponders. So that suggests how useful a 60cm is for it. I'm about 6km west of Limerick City.

bigpaddy2004

I would only be interested in being able to recieve internet data. Would a 60cm dish be adequate for this or just the same as receiveing German stations? You did say there was two beams?

L1011

On a 105CM motorised - so not 100% skew accurate, etc - in Maynooth I get:

Lock on the Czech stations, and the HD stations
Almost locking the Slovak stations
Not a whisper of the Germans

bigpaddy2004

So at the end of the day a 60cm dish is no good for Astra 1d here in Ireland?

watty

I think the consensus is that there are actually two satellites, both german beams and one is larger spillover than the other.

For the data you want 85 to 95 cm dish. 60cm would be marginal.