Turkish Satellite in Dublin

Mailman

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Hi,
Can you tell me what the main Turkish Satellites are and the size of dish needed to receive them in the greater Dublin area.
What degrees are they at.
I'm secretary of our Management company and a new tenant has moved in and erected a white 80cm dish on the front of the block which is prohibited by both planning regulations and leasehold covenants.
I'm guessing 80cm is necessary as the satellites are probably farther east than most European satellites. The tenant will be allowed to erect the satellite to the rear of the Apartment block on a pole to get LOS just like all the other foreign nationals in the block.
I just want to know what I'm dealing with here.
Thanks,
Mailman.

Pal

Turksat
80cm dish pointed at 42 degrees east of south

wil

Its good to see a property management company take a positive pro-active approach for once and you are to be commended. I understand satellite dishes placed ad-hoc may appear to be unsightly to many and rarely contribute to the general aesthetics but despite local planning laws and leasehold covenants, the use of a satellite dish to receive satellite services in the EU is a right under the freedom of goods and services.
Your common sense approach and willingness to look for a compromise that addresses both sides should be held up as an example to property management companies throughout Ireland.
Well done.:)

As already stated, Turksat is at 42 degrees East - just 14 deg to the left of where you point a Sky dish and a bit lower on the horizon so your dish may even appear to be pointing down to the ground. So in the same general direction as a Sky dish but if there are obstacles (walls trees etc) then it will need to be situated a little higher to see the satellite.
A well alligned 80cm in Dublin should receive most of the channels on the West beam from Turksat.
No normal dish here will receive any signal from the East beam which is pointed to the middle east/ Asia only.
Locate the satellite with the TRT1 transponder (11919V) which is quite strong then fine tune it on one of the weaker channels

dublinli

there is also turkish channels broadcasting on eutelsat w3, 7 east, subscription based, you will need at least 80 cm dish for this as well

Pal

and if you really must have it there is a crap Turkish channel called TRT on the Hotbird

Ulsterman 1690

On Hotbird theres also Roj TV which carries programming in Turkish Kurdish and other languages (even English) but its content is pretty controversial

Although most Turksat channels are recievable on an 80cm dish TBH I think a 90cm would be slightly more reliable during heavy rain and wotnot at least up here in Belfast signal might be a tad stronger down in Dublin though ?

Hotbird IIRC only has TRT international (and some radio stations). Turksat has TRT 1,2,3 and 4 plus a plethora of private commercial channels.which going on my own (admitidely linguistically challenged) observations and what (not linguistically challenged) friends tell me are even crappier

Mailman

Hi, me again. The resident to their credit erected the dish to the rear of the apartment on a pole but the dish is still very highly visible as the entire dish is viewable from the front of the block.
Other residents have complained about the dish. (It's great being a management company director!!!!) The dish is picking up signal from turksat 1c.

The roof of the apartment is an A roof so I would have thought that it would be possible to mount most of the dish below the roof line and still have a signal.

I'd like to know exactly how low on the horizon that turksat 1c satellite at 42.0 degrees East is.
Thanks,
Mailman.

Mossy Monk

When I had it, it looked like the dish was pointing towards the ground so it is very low.

Tony

Any chance of posting up some pictures, might be able to come up with some ideas to remedy the situation.

Mailman wrote:

Hi, me again. The resident to their credit erected the dish to the rear of the apartment on a pole but the dish is still very highly visible as the entire dish is viewable from the front of the block.
Other residents have complained about the dish. (It's great being a management company director!!!!) The dish is picking up signal from turksat 1c.

The roof of the apartment is an A roof so I would have thought that it would be possible to mount most of the dish below the roof line and still have a signal.

I'd like to know exactly how low on the horizon that turksat 1c satellite at 42.0 degrees East is.
Thanks,
Mailman.