Can you pick up 4.8e from Ireland?

Barack Obama

Hi - I've searched for this but can't find the answer. I'm just trying to find out if you can pick up 4.8e with an 80cm dish?

Is there a list of satellites that you can get from here anywhere?

Thanks

Headshot

In the UK you can
http://www.techwatch.co.uk/forums/98173-sirius-4-8e-nordic-beam.html

not sure about here thou but if the uk can get it, its a good change we can too

dxhound2005

You will not get the Nordic beam but you should have no trouble with the Europe beam, try 11766 H 27500 3/4. Go to Lyngsat to see footprints and dish sizes required for all sats. Below is a list of strongest transponders compiled in the UK, Alsat forum. I haven't checked much lately but I would probably get all of those except 4, 7, 11 and 34.5 West on my 110 cm dish. There is an Irish list but it is way out of date.

November Strongest Transponders

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Intelsat-12 @ 45 east 11686V 5787 Prima
Intelsat-12 @ 45 east dvb-s2 11632V 20000 Latina F
Turksat 3A @ 42 east 11804V 24444 CNN Turk
Hellas Sat-2 @39 east 12606H 30000 ERT World
Eutelsat W-7 @ 36 east 12521H 4340 Lider Tv
EuroBird-3 @ 33.2 east 11105H 2441 TV8 Monte Blanc.
Astra 2D @ 28.2 east 10773H 22000 BBC-1
Badr-4 @ 26 east 12523H 27500 Kuwait tv
Astra 3B @ 23.5 east 11914H 27500 TV Noord
Eutelsat W-6 @ 21.6 east dvb-s2 11560H 5000 LBC
Astra 1L @ 19.2 east 11597V 22000 BBC World
Eutelsat Sesat @ 16 east 11055V 27900 My-Music
Eutel W2M @ 16 east 11282H 27500 Vizion+
EuroBird-16 @ 15.8 east 10834V 27500 Kopernikus
Hot Bird 6 @ 13 east 11642H 27500 Bloomberg Europe.
Eutel W2A @ 10 east 11144H 2441 ANB
EuroBird 9A @ 9 east 11804V 27500 Lux
Eutel W3A @ 7 east 11282V 27500 M6 Swiss
Astra 4A @ 4.8 east 11766H 27500 KRT
EuroBird 4A @ 4 east 11659V 27500 Al Jazeera Sports **
Astra 1C @ 2 east feeds at times incl 3.7 deg
Astra 1D @ 1.8 east feeds at times inc 2.8deg
Thor-5 @ 0.8 west 11862H 27500 BBC World News
Thor-5 @ 0.8 west 12341 28000 Duna 1HD MPEG-4
Intelsat 10-02 @ 1 west 12643H 27500 DDTV
Amos-2 @ 4 west 10722H 27500 1Plus1
AtlanticBird-3 @ 5 west 11096V 29950 NRJ Paris
Nilesat 101 @ 7 west 11823V 27500 Kuwait Sport
AtlanticBird-2 @ 8 west 11070H 2100 Ishtar
Express AM44 @ 11 west 11550H 1600 Conad TV
Express AM44 @ 11 west dvb-s2 11562H 16560 Gold tv
AtlanticBird-1 @12.5 west 11340H 2279 Cancao Nova Int
Telstar 12 @ 15 west 12608H 19279 BBC Persian..
Intelsat 901 @ 18 west 11606H 8500 data
Intelsat 901 @ 18 west dvb-s2 11497H 1181 Sonce
NSS-7 @ 22 west 12674H 20255 Algeria
Intelsat 905 @ 24.5 west 11172V 1860 loveworld
Intelsat 907 @ 27.5 west 11665V 13020 Ch 5 regions encrypt
Hispasat 1C @ 30 west 12092V 27500 Al Jazeera Intl
Hispasat 1C @ 30 west dvb-s2 12012H 30000 Euronews
Intelsat 903 @ 34.5 west 11505V 14261 data.
Intelsat 903 @ 34.5 west dvb-s2 11027V 8500 data
Telstar 11N @ 37.5 west dvb-s2 11677V 18159 data
** 4 east occassional feeds

Most of the UK 80 to 95cm {45cm possible with the 4 major satellite positions}
South East England 100cm rest of UK & Ireland 110 to 120 cm
South East of England 100cm
Reception only under favourable conditions in the South East of England 100cm

The 4 Major Satellite positions mentioned are 28.2 east,19.2 east,13 east & 30 west

white_westie

I had it working on one of the lidl dishes along with 28e, 19e and 13e using a multi-lnb bracket. (didn't look at it much though).

Barack Obama

white_westie wrote: »

I had it working on one of the lidl dishes along with 28e, 19e and 13e using a multi-lnb bracket. (didn't look at it much though).

At the minute I've only got 28e, 19e, 15e and 13e working so I'm just wondering what else I should be able to get.

Note - I don't think I can get many west satellites because of a poorly positioned neighbours house

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42e turksat and try 12.5w

dxhound2005

Barack Obama wrote: »

At the minute I've only got 28e, 19e, 15e and 13e working so I'm just wondering what else I should be able to get.

Note - I don't think I can get many west satellites because of a poorly positioned neighbours house

1 West is the strongest anywhere on the arc for me, BBC World on 11862. 9 East is also very strong.

MBSnr

Barack Obama wrote: »

At the minute I've only got 28e, 19e, 15e and 13e working so I'm just wondering what else I should be able to get.

Note - I don't think I can get many west satellites because of a poorly positioned neighbours house

Just for comparison I'm in Mayo with a 80cm dish - I can get

42/39/28/23/19/13/9/7/5 E
1/5/8/12/15/30/43 W

obviously not all the transponders and some drop off with the weather. You're a 100 miles further East so should get a stronger fix on certain transponders (depending on your setup). 80cm dish is no good for any feeds though. I tend only to watch FTA sport on the main sats so probably haven't pointed the dish at 8W or 43W in years....

TorresLegend

85cm Dish in Drogheda, gets me 13/19.2/23.5/28.2 and that is it! Have real trouble with some of Cyfra HD stuff on 13, the other 3 satellites are booming.

byte

TorresLegend wrote: »

85cm Dish in Drogheda, gets me 13/19.2/23.5/28.2 and that is it! Have real trouble with some of Cyfra HD stuff on 13, the other 3 satellites are booming.

Motor or Multi-LNB setup?

TorresLegend

byte wrote: »

Motor or Multi-LNB setup?

Sorry, SG2100 Moteck Motor. Dish is a Metronic Transparent as recommended by the good folk on here.

moneysurfing

I have also in Drogheda 110cm dish with multi LNB from 1W to 19E including 4,8E, 9E, 13E also(see the picture) SkyUK have in different dish. Tried up to 23,5E but wasn't good strength of signal for 23,5E if the middle of dish focused to 4,8E Using 10x1 and 4x1 diseqC switch for receivers DM800HD, DM500 (now changed for Openbox S9 HD)

[IMG][/img] By moneysurfing at 2010-11-28

byte

TorresLegend wrote: »

Sorry, SG2100 Moteck Motor. Dish is a Metronic Transparent as recommended by the good folk on here.

Your motor mustn't be lined up on the arc properly, as it seems to be fading off as it goes west.

TorresLegend

byte wrote: »

Your motor mustn't be lined up on the arc properly, as it seems to be fading off as it goes west.

Cheers for that, I'll see if I can find someone to take a look.

mar1us

Barack Obama wrote: »

At the minute I've only got 28e, 19e, 15e and 13e working so I'm just wondering what else I should be able to get.

Note - I don't think I can get many west satellites because of a poorly positioned neighbours house

not far away from u in lucan i got from 54e to 30w 95cm dish and strong motor,what channel u want to see on 4.8e ?

ramas2

Barack Obama wrote: »

Hi - I've searched for this but can't find the answer. I'm just trying to find out if you can pick up 4.8e with an 80cm dish?

Is there a list of satellites that you can get from here anywhere?

Thanks

You will get European beam with 80 cm dish, for Nordic beam needs 2.4 m dish.:)

hunter1715

ramas2 wrote: »

You will get European beam with 80 cm dish, for Nordic beam needs 2.4 m dish.:)

I get Nordic channels perfectly on a 1m dish using a good quality LNB. Based in Meath

Minstrel27

I picked up 7 east last week by accident but unless you are Turkish or have a love for M6 Suisse there is no point.

watty

hunter1715 wrote: »

I get Nordic channels perfectly on a 1m dish using a good quality LNB. Based in Meath

Only some of them.

hunter1715

There is allot of rubblish on most of the channels but some interesting viewing too, if you get my drift BTW I can be picked up 4.8E no problem, I just scanned it and at 57% it has found 362 services.

hunter1715

watty wrote: »

Only some of them.

It depends what you mean by "some", if you mean all the Canal + channels and dozens more besides than would ever be viewed, then yes only "some" channels.

dxhound2005

Some SIS dog racing FTA.

http://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/4-8-east-astra-1e-4a-sirius-4/188077-sis-racing-4-8e.html

Minstrel27

hunter1715 wrote: »

It depends what you mean by "some", if you mean all the Canal + channels and dozens more besides than would ever be viewed, then yes only "some" channels.

Can you receive all transponders with your 1m dish?

snaps

hunter1715 wrote: »

It depends what you mean by "some", if you mean all the Canal + channels and dozens more besides than would ever be viewed, then yes only "some" channels.

Canal+ channels? Canal+ is on 1 west, not 4.8/5east?

Are you getting muddled up with satellites here?

I would be very surprised if your getting nordic beam on 5east as i know people in England that struggle with that beam in NE UK.

1 west nordic beam again is near enough impossible to pick up here in Ireland, The Stronger K1 beam that has a lot of canal+ channels on can be picked up as far west as Dublin/east coast on a 1m dish, but then the footprint really drops away and is impossible to recieve here in the west of Ireland.

hunter1715

To clarify, I was referring to the Nordic channels on 0.9W Int.707/Thor 2,3.

I'm currently recieving a couple of hundred channels on 0.9W form many different transponders, I've listed below the first few there current signal strenght. Hope this helps!

SNR
11292,H,24500,5/6 - 100%
11246,V,24500, 5/6 - 84%
12607 V 27500 3/4 - 65%
11228 H 24500 5/6 - 95%
12527 H 27500 3/4 - 75%
11324 H 24500 5/6 - 100%
11308 V 24500 5/6 - 81%
11356 H 24500 5/6 - 96 %
11260 H 24500 5/6 - 100%
11277 V 24500 5/6 - 81% ( Canal +)

snaps

The T1, T2 and K2 beams are very strong here in Ireland, infact I find some of the T1 beams stronger than Astra 2. The K1 beams are hit and miss, some transponders strong and then some K1 transponders (eg the canal+sport HD and TV2 EPL) are very weak.

I once set up a dish in the east of England where I succesfully recieved all the nordic beams on both the old 1 west and the 5 east slot, now the nordic beams where weaker, but more than recievable.

sammyano

Mar1us, how is your sky channels signal, reason is that am in Lucan too with 80cm motorised, however my SNR for sky channels under 50% and breaks up when raining

mar1us

@ Sky news for example i have SNR 71% and is rainning and windy dish size is 1.1m

sammyano

Ok thanks, I planning to look towards a fixed dish as my 80cm is really giving my hassle, breaking up when it's raining and can't even get more than 55% snr on normal day