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Satellite Size for Freesat in Portugal (algarve)

  • 22-08-2008 7:30pm
    #1
    themessiah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭


    Do any boardies know what the optimial diameter dish is for the algarve. my normal signal keeps dropping in the evening. rather than have a 6 foot thing on the roof. does any know what the story is? Is it 100 diameter one?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,341 ✭✭✭✭Tony


    http://www.astra2d.com/

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  • #3
    Myxomatosis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭Myxomatosis


    Just to save you the bother of browsing through the site, I remember a friend of mine finding these two pages useful:

    http://www.astra2d.com/portugal.htm
    http://www.astra2d.com/astra2d-spain.htm


  • #4
    tvr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 416 ✭✭tvr


    cheers guys.


  • #5
    Dazzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Dazzy


    Just did this myself. Based on the research I did you need a 1.4 metre dish in the Algarve for Astra 2. I bought one of these dish's from one of the satellite installation people who advertise in the Algarve News. The dish and LNB cost €190. It cost me about another €30 for pole, fixings, and cable. I brought out a spare Panasonic DigiBox that I had.

    Once I got it all setup and pointing in the right direction (using sat finder) I still couldn't get channels on the TV so had to ring the crowd I bought the dish from to troubleshoot. Turns out you need to turn the LNB by about 45 degrees for channels to come through even through I had a perfect signal. It cost me a call out charge of €60 for this 30 second adjustment.

    Very happy with the outcome and no problems with getting any of the channels. I have a yellow house card which gives me C4. The card was deactivated when I started to use it and activated itself after about 24 hours of being in the Digibox.


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