What satellites receivable of 60cm oval sky dish?

Borgman100

Apologies if this has been answered already elsewhere.

I just wanted to know which satellites are able to be received via my standard 60cm oval sky dish and lnb, apart from the obvious. (Freesat and FTV sky channels)

I have a linux based sat box, and was wondering about moving the dish around to see what else i could get, I know the size of dish will limit me, but wondered which satellites i might be able to pick up.

I am in Dublin, with a good southfacing dish position and no obstacles.

Thanks in advance

tapfit2004

look at lyngsat. it gives footprints for all sats.
you should be able to get 19e no problem, should also get some tp's on 42e, 16e, 13e, 7e, 5e, 1w, 5w, 8w, 15w, and 30w.
you might have problems on the 60cm dish with some of the above if the weather is bad, ie rain etc, but it would be good enough for experimenting.
if you wanted stable reception on the above and 3 or 4 more a 80-100 cm dish would be a better option. adding a motor to the setup would allow you see any satellite available to you without having to go outside. motors can be difficult to setup but once done properly are well worth it.
try the sky dish first to see if anything on the other satellites interests you.
hope this helps

Smeagol

In addition to that I found that World of Satellites program was a great help.
WoS ~20MB.
Make sure that you update database before doing the dish track.

It's provided by Tele satellite. TS

gtg60

If you're looking for non subscription English channels then forget it, Astra 28E is the one for you.

watty

With 110cm you can get 22 satellites.

With Sky dish:
30w
19E
13E
42E
most but not all channels on western beams.

Some stronger channels on some other satellites.

Really 80cm is the minimum for non-Sky, esp in Mid-West / south west / west /north / northwest

Also the Sky mount is not designed for easy re-adjustment. You have to point more accurate than 1 degree and change the elevation as well as azimuth (east/west) for each satellite.

Mike 1972

If you're looking for non subscription English channels then forget it, Astra 28E is the one for you

Lots of FTA channels on hotbird carry English language programming for at least some of the broadcas day

Borgman100

Thank you all for the useful and helpful responses. Bottom line is that I really want a larger dish 80-100cm but the missus isn't to happy about the idea...so thought I might get away with a compromise with the smaller dish. Hoping that once she sees the benefits of the potential choice of channels, she will be happy for a larger motorised dish to be set up...

Although I did read someone on a different forum saying ''it is easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission....'' sounds like he was having same truoble as me!

Thank again for the advice...

snaps

yes a motor is so versatile. They are not expensive now either. you don't have to put the motor/dish up on a wall, a ground mount is a sensible option for a motorized system, as long as there is good line of sight for the satellites.

You wont regret it.