We still Have BBC1 And BBC2

Lazer


Joined: 02/03/2012
Posts: 9

Message Posted:
03/03/2012 14:12

For those who might be intrested i realigned a clients 3M dish and hence he has BBC1 And BBC2 its not perfect 24 hrs of the day i shall spend a bit more time on it all the dish installations i have installed here have Been the Lazer 3M dishes and invacom quad Lnbs with a c120 flange As these have more gain lower noise than the standard single lnb and the lazer feed horn

so those who have a 4mtr dish the bigger the dish the more accurate it has to be even the skew on the lnb is very important dont forget that Astra1N is not in the same positsion as Astra 2D

so it might be worth having a word with iceman

Lazer


Joined: 02/03/2012
Posts: 9

Message Posted:
03/03/2012 14:23

i Shall be realiging a few more next week and i ll let you know how i get on

david9


Joined: 09/09/2008
Posts: 358

Message Posted:
03/03/2012 15:17

Lazer



Keep us posted on this please

iceman


Joined: 15/08/2008
Posts: 724

Message Posted:
03/03/2012 16:20

Lazer

Your profile says you are in Fethiye Turkey...

If you have any experience in this business you should know that signal outside the footprint is not consistent and vary a lot in strength between short distances..

With old Astra2D we could only receive horizontal transponders and no verticals BUT in southern Turkey verticals were much stronger and horizontals suffered..

In Cyprus Paphos could receive 2D 24/7 with a 2.7m dish but central & east Cyprus needed 4m+ dish.

Astra 1N has a much tighter beam and signal reaching Cyprus is much less than the signal we had from 2D.

I have done some work on a couple of 4.2m dishes with a colleague but the result hasn't impressed us so far.

It's no good giving people hope or some signal,some parts of the day.

Now is the best time of the year for satellite signals...come summer, it will deteriorate due to the atmospheric conditions.

Even the old 2D signal used to suffer in summer months.

Lazer


Joined: 02/03/2012
Posts: 9

Message Posted:
03/03/2012 17:03

Hi İceman



Thankyou for your comments i am well aware of the situation and circumstances i spent enough time in this game this is why i put you name forward you know what dishes you use and the lnb feedhorns etc and how they perform

My intentions was not to mislead any one yes i am in fethiye but to give my experiances from here and pass the infomation on even though this is a cypriot forum

stockiefan


Joined: 04/05/2009
Posts: 574

Message Posted:
03/03/2012 17:13

Hi Iceman,

I certainly know that if there was any solution for the BBC channels you would have come up with it by now. Not knocking the original post but, It did build my hope up when I saw it. You can't beat having a 120 flange and a decent feed horn Here's hoping anyway.

iceman


Joined: 15/08/2008
Posts: 724

Message Posted:
03/03/2012 17:35

Haven't given up yet Steve, but like i said on previous msg...so far, its not looking very promising..

LaptaGeezer


Joined: 01/06/2010
Posts: 407

Message Posted:
03/03/2012 17:43

Iceman... I think I am right in saying that Astra 1N is only operating its 'Uk' only beam at the moment... once the European beam is switched on then the signal strength here should be similar to the levels of the Astra 2D. Theory would say that if dishes are re-aligned to the 1N bird then the signal should be there... .do you agree or are there other elements to consider?

iceman


Joined: 15/08/2008
Posts: 724

Message Posted:
03/03/2012 18:03

Astra 1N is a sat specifically designed for a narrow beam on UK...just as Astra 2D was.

Pan-European beams will be on future next generation sats..

Actually..Astra 1N is only a temporary change and it will be relocated at 19East orbital location early next year to carry German language channels. (end of Free German TV on a small dish)

The UK terrestrıal channels we recently lost to 1N will be transfered to new 1F.

Lazer


Joined: 02/03/2012
Posts: 9

Message Posted:
04/03/2012 09:13

Astra 1n has 2 pan european beams and 1 narrow beam which is used at this moment for the uk terrestrial channels 2F is going up at the end of the year and should be in operational in jan next year and then they will transfer across. astra 1n will move to 19 deg 2E will be middle of next year and 2 G jan/feb 2014