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What to do with a Sky Analogue Box ????

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  • 15-03-2001 2:31am
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    I have had Sky for about 10 years now, and since the launch of Sky Digital my old analogue box and dish is on a shelf in the Garage. If I reconnect the box and dish, are there any satellites (besides 19 degrees) that I can receive decent stations from????
    Although I enjoyed the Dutch (RTL) and german (RTL2/DSF) and french (ARTE) stations on the old sky dish, because they often broadcast movies in english, I was wondering if I could tune my old box into the satellites that broadcast english speaking channels other than the sky channels.
    Any body have ideas?????


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    Hi Tanya, you could try hot bird at 13 degrees east, a little right and slighly upwards of Astra 1. It has BBC world on thre and you should get good pictures on an 80cm dish. For a channel list try www.eutelsat.org

    regards tony


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    U could always set it up to receive one of the Hotbird satellites or U could stick it back on Astra for eurosport, viva music, sky news, lots of foreign channels and of course channel 5!


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    thats what i'm doing. i am leaving it where it is for Channel 5 and VIVA ZWEI. RTL also show a Champions League game every week. quite handy if TV3 or HTV arent showing the same 1. also handy for when i want to watch Sky News or Eurosport and when my mother wants to watch QVC when someone is watching another channel on Sky Digital


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