Eastern European Satellite

MrAnarchy

This may be a bit off topic but this seems to be a knowledgeable forum so here goes.
A friend of mine recently married a Polish girl and they are living in Ireland.
Cork to be precise.
To fill her in on what is happening at home I am trying to get information on how to pick up Polish TV from Ireland.
I know it isnt possible on SKY Digital but I was wondering if anyone would know how it would be possible either on Analogue or Digital ( perhaps Kopernikus )and would advanced equipment be involved ?
Any info would be much appreciated
Thanks
Mr Anarchy

PacMan

Hot bird!!!I am talking about the name of the satellite (!)
I often use my old sky analogue dish and decoder and try both astra 19 and hotbird at 13 degrees. I often tune to BBC World. I have noticed some polish stations there.

The Cigarette Smoking Man

http://www.satcodx1.com/0130/eng/

MrAnarchy

Thanks to everyone and Lyngsat I think I have found all the free channels available on Analogue.

Free radio :
Polskie Radio 1,3 and 5 and Radio Maryja.
All on Hotbird 1.(13deg)

Free TV:
RTL 7,TV4,TV Polonia on Hotbird 1.(13 deg)
TVN on Hotbird 5 (13 deg)
TV Puls on Astra 2C (19.2)

rikerdonegal

MrAnarchy wrote:

I know it isnt possible on SKY Digital

Is that still the case? I have a new Polish housemate and I was hoping to find some Polish Language TV on Sky Digital for him.

None to be had, I take it?

Sponge Bob

The Polish stations are not on the astra 2 sat at 28e which is where your dish is pointing .

watty

None on Sky at all.

Plenty @13e (Hotbird Digital)

Don't get an Analog system. Even BBC WorldTV is closing on Analog 13E in April.

From 150 .. 200 Euro self install or typically 300 Euro cheap installed for you. There are pay channels too. Lots of Polish Satellite Pay TV running in Limerick. Even a Polish pub in Henry St. Now.

St Senan

You could ask your friends wife to get some one in poland to get a box and dish their for cyfra+.
lots of polish people here in Ireland have cyfra+

L1011

scaller wrote:

You could ask your friends wife to get some one in poland to get a box and dish their for cyfra+.
lots of polish people here in Ireland have cyfra+

So much so that theres a large number of agents who do nothing but sell full Cyfra+ kits right down to the branded dish (which is, amazingly, just about large enough to work here). No relative needed.

netwhizkid

watty wrote:

None on Sky at all.

Wasn't there a Test on Sky a few months ago with Polish channels?.....Or was it Icelandic? I remember a test anyway on the Astra Satellite of either Polish or Icelandic channels, I remember tuning them in to the Digibox.

Hagar

I hope it's Icelandic, I can't speak Polish.

yvry

At this moment there is a lot of way's to get polish legal from poland it self, I saw that there are selling prepaid card it self and you don't have to get the receivers and dishes here, just the prepaid card available in every satellite shop and not subscription at all

L1011

netwhizkid wrote:

Wasn't there a Test on Sky a few months ago with Polish channels?.....Or was it Icelandic? I remember a test anyway on the Astra Satellite of either Polish or Icelandic channels, I remember tuning them in to the Digibox.

Icelandic. And it wasn't a test, it was the Icelandic elections, which for some reason needed to be on satellite. Astra 2D covers Iceland quite well due to the way Astra positioned it to avoid covering the continent.

They actually have a hell of a lot of TV channels for 300,000 people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_stations_in_Iceland :eek:

L1011

MrAnarchy wrote:

perhaps Kopernikus

Just noticed this bit of the post...

DFS Kopernikus 1 was dead by 1995 - went out of control, Kopernikus 2 - the original satellite at 28 East even if it never carried Sky - was deorbited in 2001, and Kopernikus 3 was junked in 2003

If you can get TV off any of them, let Analoguesat on DigitalSpy know, you'd have beaten him for hellishly impossible

Edit:
I've also just realised that the original post was from 2002. So K3 was still around. Oops.

Pal

you can live Celtic matches on Polsat so might be worth buying a card for that.

rikerdonegal

Thanks for all the responses.

He's only with us for a few weeks, so I'll give it a miss.

Was just thinking that (with the events in Poland recently) it would be cool to tune in a channel he could watch about it. He has almost no English.

Thanks, again.

By the way... Scaller, how did you know he
(a) was married, and
(b) had left his wife in Poland???!

St Senan

rikerdonegal wrote:

Thanks for all the responses.

He's only with us for a few weeks, so I'll give it a miss.

Was just thinking that (with the events in Poland recently) it would be cool to tune in a channel he could watch about it. He has almost no English.

Thanks, again.

By the way... Scaller, how did you know he
(a) was married, and
(b) had left his wife in Poland???!

I was refering to Mr Anarachy and his friend who is married to a Polish girl.
Bythe way i have a Polish guy working for me who has an ex wife back in Poland.

rikerdonegal

scaller wrote:

I was refering to Mr Anarachy

Thank f**k for that. I thought you were on stake-out outside my house.:D

By the way, that original post is four years old!

Ulsterman 1690

There are indeed about half a dozen Polish channels on Hotbird 13 East (I think a couple are on 19E as well but nothing that isint also on 13E)

Basically you need an 80cm dish/LNB pointed at the hotbird satellite. You can use a manual switch to watch it through your existing digibox but its a fiddly arrangment to set up and use. Its worth the few extra quid to buy a seperate "free to air reciever" box and besides youll want your housemates to have a seperate box anyway or youll hardly ever see any English language TV again

MYOB wrote:

Icelandic. ....They actually have a hell of a lot of TV channels for 300,000 people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_stations_in_Iceland :eek:

Wasnt it Iceland who used to shut down all TV for one day per week (I think the Hungarians used to as well) ????

L1011

Their shutdown period used to be Wednesdays.... and the MONTH OF JULY!

St Senan

rikerdonegal wrote:

Thank f**k for that. I thought you were on stake-out outside my house.:D

By the way, that original post is four years old!

Sorry my mistake i never looked at the date
By the way rikerdonegal when you put the cat out tonight give us a big wave

watty

Iceland publishes more books per head of population than any other country.

Those long dark winter days and tradition of Sagas?

rikerdonegal

scaller wrote:

By the way rikerdonegal when you put the cat out tonight give us a big wave

Darn, didn't see this in time. I'll wave tonight, I promise.

And, as for that idea of television shutting down for a whole month!! My worst nightmare...

St Senan

rikerdonegal wrote:

Darn, didn't see this in time. I'll wave tonight, I promise. No problem could also bring out 2 cups of hot choclate
its damn cold out here at night.