CHANNEL GUIDE

bkk2009

Hi Everyone

I am new and would appreciate advice on how i can get Kenyan TV. I would like any information on how i can get this country channels. I went for holiday. Its a beautiful country with lots of wildlife and scenery.

I would also like to contribute a little info. I live in Longford and I am using lidl Camping Silvercrest SL 65 with 41 cm Plastic Dish.

I managed to get this channels :-

Astra 28.2 E
Euribird 25.5 E
Astra 19.2 E
Hortbird 13 E
Eurbirod 9 E
Eutelsat 7E
Serious 4 E
Atlantic Bird 5 W
Hispasat 30 W

I had been fiddling with the dish changing the elevation and direction and doing a blind search. The signal was mostly between 40% -80% for different channels. lots of channels too. I am still searching and will add more info.


Regards

Newby.

denis1501

http://www.lyngsat.com/freetv/Kenya.html

Looks like Atlantic Bird and Intelsat 903 are the only ones you can get in Ireland but your dish may be too small........

GerardKeating

denis1501 wrote: »

http://www.lyngsat.com/freetv/Kenya.html

Looks like Atlantic Bird and Intelsat 903 are the only ones you can get in Ireland but your dish may be too small........

Atlantic Bird 3 works grand here in Galway with an 80cm dish, I remember watching the Kenyan station when the system was first setup, and excellent strong signal...

Tend to lose picture in Storms or heavy rain.

denis1501

Number of different beams on that sat though Gerard, doubt you'd pick them all up with an 80cm......still, it's only the Kenyan channel the op is interested in.

bkk2009

Hi
Managed to get Atlantic bird 3 on 5 W but I could not find this channel

3656 R KTN DVB 2893- 3/4 Panatlantic F

I tried hard. I could not understand the (R) polarisation , my receiver has only Vertical & Horizontal.

St Senan

I cant understand how you can pick up Atlantic bird 3 on 5 W on such a small dish what channels are you receiving on 5 W

bkk2009

France 2 , 3 , 5
Arte
LCP
GCPE1
Tayor Al Janah

and others but after looking further into the list I might say I received about 60% of the Lyngsat listed channels.

denis1501

You're picking up the 'super' beam which requires the smallest dish.
This link will explain better, check out the figures on the individual beam maps and compare them with the necessary dish requirements on the right.

_http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/ab3.html

denis1501

bkk2009 wrote: »

Hi
Managed to get Atlantic bird 3 on 5 W but I could not find this channel

3656 R KTN DVB 2893- 3/4 Panatlantic F

I tried hard. I could not understand the (R) polarisation , my receiver has only Vertical & Horizontal.

From a well known sat tv forum:
Polarisation is a property of any electromagnetic wave, including the microwaves employed in satellite tranmissions. We are all familiar with Polaroid sunglasses which block out light in a given plane to (eg) reduce reflections off water (reflecteed light itself being polarised in a single plane). Satellite signals are either linearly or circularly polarised.

The whole purpose of polarisation of satellite transmissions is to enable twice as many channels to be squeezed into and distinguishable within a given frequency. Why twice as many? Well simply because each form of polarisation has only two states which will not interfere with each other. The two states of linearly polarised signals are H (horizontal) and V (vertical), indicating the plane in which the signal is polarised. The two states of circularly polarised signals are R (Right) and L (Left), those being analogous to the direction of rotation of the signal.

In actual fact, Circularly polarised signals can be viewed as comprising two constantly varying linear components.
Imagine standing in the path of the incoming signal, looking up into its beam. If you could see the signal it would be in a sense similar to looking at a hand moving around a clock face. Right-polarised signals moving clockwise, left anticlockwise. At 12 and 6 o'clock, all the signal's energy is in the vertical component. AT 3 and 9 o'clock, all of it is in the horizontal component. At other positions, there is a non-zero vertical AND a non-zero horizontal component.

In fact, the signal is "rotating" very many times per second so you don't see really this variation - you see an average strength of the vertical component, and an average (equal) strength of the horizontal. This strength averages out in each case to be about 3db less than the maximum were it to stay at the 3/6/9/12 o'clock position.

mcwhirter

bkk2009 wrote: »

Hi
Managed to get Atlantic bird 3 on 5 W but I could not find this channel

3656 R KTN DVB 2893- 3/4 Panatlantic F

I tried hard. I could not understand the (R) polarisation , my receiver has only Vertical & Horizontal.

That is C band. If the receive frequency is around the 3000 mark it is C Band and if it is around 10600-12700 it is Ku Band.
Your receiver would probably only accept Ku Band which is what everyone normally transmits on in Europe.
And to receive C band you need a very large dish.