Hi Can anyone tell me if I bought a 60cm freesat kit from B&Q £25, I would be able to get BBC1, BBC2 and ITV and radio 4? Searching the web and confused at this stage.
Thanks
Andrew
A 60cm dish should get you satelite TV at Narbonne but a Freesat reciever, although beamed from Astra, is focused for the UK and will probably be well out of range....what you want is a secondhand Sky reciever.
My 66cm dish works as far down as the Spanish Costa Brava.....a little further and I have to switch to the South Beam to get anything.
Thanks Jocko2, little confused, the receiver is not freesat logo, just says Free to Air content and can be tuned into Astra 2(28.2e) and Eurobird (28.5e). Our friends that are going, want to have tv in their tin hut. I don't want them lugging the dish, tv etc if its not going to work, they want bbc and itv and radio 4.
Quote: Originally posted by jocko2 on 31/5/2011A 60cm dish should get you satelite TV at Narbonne but a Freesat reciever, although beamed from Astra, is focused for the UK and will probably be well out of range....what you want is a secondhand Sky reciever.My 66cm dish works as far down as the Spanish Costa Brava.....a little further and I have to switch to the South Beam to get anything.
The amount of miss information on this site regarding satellite is amazing.
Freesat and Sky are both beamed form the same satellite cluster at 28.2 deg east (Astra 2) and 28.5 deg east (Eurobird) so there is no reason why a Sky box should be required.
The B&Q box should be fine but note it only has composite video only output so won't give a good a picture as a better specified FTA, Sky or Freesat box which would output RGB (not an issue for radio). Neither will it sort the channels into order like as Sky or Freesat box only into alphabetical order if selected or by manually sorting.
Narbonne is far South, almost Spain in fact, so you will be lucky to get the FTA BBC/ITV channels with a 60cm Dish, an 80cm Dish would be better, we now use a 80cm Dish for the Southern Ardeche, in fact you can just spot it in my gallery photo.
The advantage of not using a Sky box, is that if you are in a poor Sky (Astra2D) signal Location, you can point the Dish at another satellite, such as Eutelsat/Intelsat at least then you would still be able to get at least one English language TV channel such as BBC World news which is of course FTA.
Sky box's only work when pointed at Astra2 as they require info for the default transponder setting, you can reset the default transponder, but it s a faff.
We take a Sky Mini-Box with us, but for backup have a Comag (Aldi) none Sky box for use on other satellites. both unts are 12v/mans and quite small in size.
Narbonne is far South, almost Spain in fact, so you will be lucky to get the FTA BBC/ITV channels with a 60cm Dish, an 80cm Dish would be better, we now use a 80cm Dish for the Southern Ardeche, in fact you can just spot it in my gallery photo.
The advantage of not using a Sky box, is that if you are in a poor Sky (Astra2D) signal Location, you can point the Dish at another satellite, such as Eutelsat/Intelsat at least then you would still be able to get at least one English language TV channel such as BBC World news which is of course FTA.
To see what size Dish you need, have a look at the SES Astra wbsite, and look at the FootPrint ma, given for Astra2D this is the main sateelite of the fleet at 28 deg East, that carries the BBC/ITV FTA channels along with the default transpoder info for Sky box users, the map info shown is not 100% acurate as local conditions apply, but it is a good rough guide.
Alternativley google BBC/ITV satellite Narbonne, and you may find some local reports of Dish size used, which will be the most accurate info of all.
Sky box's only work when pointed at Astra2 as they require info for the default transponder setting, you can reset the default transponder, but it's a faff.
We take a Sky Mini-Box with us, but for backup have a Comag (Aldi) none Sky box for use on other satellites. both unts are 12v/mains and quite small in size.
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