Dish Size For Hotbird

Mossy Monk

what is the recommended dish size for Hotbird. the analogue channels are coming in with loads of sparkles (distorted sound on some) while the digital channels come in perfectly

another thing, i never knew BBC World and Eurosport News were FTA in digital. any others there that might be of interest

Tony

80cm is the recommended size for Ireland.

Tony

sayireland

This might help

http://www.lyngsat.com/hotbird.shtml

byte

Well I've an 80cm dish aimed at Astra and another LNB offset for Hotbird with a nice DiSEqC switch from Tony! Because the Hotbird LNB is offset, the signal is weaker but works grand (for digital telly).

BTW, I didn't know Eurosport News was FTA on Hotbird! Frequency?

Oh, and MTV2 Pop Channel is now FTA on digital (always been FTA on analogue) on Astra 1 for anyone interested. It's very similar to TMF on Sky.

All I need to do now is try getting Astra 2 on same dish!;)

Runfree

80 cm dish for that is fine. must get myself some free channels

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by irishbyte
BTW, I didn't know Eurosport News was FTA on Hotbird! Frequency?

12.558 V 27500 3/4

it is there in different languages alongside pan european Eurosport which is also available in various languages

netwhizkid

Hi,
for example if i wanted to watch all the hotbird channels, would i have to subscripe to each channel indivually, or could i subscripe to a hotbird package like sky. Or is hotbird just a satelitte like Astra ?

There is some channels there i would like to recieve, So any info would be apreciated.

Thanks in Advance,

netwhizkid

byte

Originally posted by Mossy Monk
12.558 V 27500 3/4

it is there in different languages alongside pan european Eurosport which is also available in various languages

Thanks for that Mossy. I will try that later.