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hotbird in ireland

  • 22-08-2002 1:20am
    #1
    joerules
    Closed Accounts Posts: 120 ✭✭


    does anybody tune into hotbird, analogue not digi? whats the ideal set-up, i have 80 cm dish and universal lnb.

    what are my chances?

    location : waterford.


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  • #2
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    80cm will be fine. i used to watch Hotbird until the lnb got sick and died :( . 80cm gave me perfect reception. i'm in the county of Waterford


  • #3
    TVDX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭TVDX


    I have noticed that the czech channels from Hotbird have gotten worse and worse, apparently because they were changed so that central Europe would get better reception rather than us here. But what annoys me is the fact that the Sky digibox is set so that alot of the channels that are on it cant be received properly because they are out of the signal rage, for instance Noello TV, The Sailing Channel, they might be interesting, but we cant get them, ill have to root out the old non Sky digibox i have and give it a try, has anyone done this and viewed the elusive channels?.


  • #4
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,130 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Originally posted by TVDX
    I have noticed that the czech channels from Hotbird have gotten worse and worse, apparently because they were changed so that central Europe would get better reception rather than us here. But what annoys me is the fact that the Sky digibox is set so that alot of the channels that are on it cant be received properly because they are out of the signal rage, for instance Noello TV, The Sailing Channel, they might be interesting, but we cant get them, ill have to root out the old non Sky digibox i have and give it a try, has anyone done this and viewed the elusive channels?.

    From your post I think you're confusing Hotbird with Eurobird. Hotbird is at 13° East whilst Eurobird is at 28.5° East (where we pick up Sky from). Yeah, i think the Czech channels are on a beam aimed at other part of Europe so it's poorer here. As far as I'm aware the Sky Digibox is capable of looking at obscure Symbol rates but the software restricts it which is a bit of an annoyance.

    For list of analogue channels, go to www.analoguesat.co.uk Hope this helps a bit. 80cm dish will get you away fine


  • #5
    TVDX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭TVDX


    Sorry you are right there, i looked before i leapt!


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