Radio listening thru Satellite??

Cork

Can you link your radio up with your Satellite dish to recieve more radio stations?

Are there any Irish radio stations available thru cable or Satellite??

Mossy Monk

if you connect your STB to a radio with phono leads you can get tons of radio stations through the radios speakers

Radio 1 (MW and FM)
2FM
RnaG
Lyric FM

they are the only Irish ones i know about available via any satellite

Richard

Originally posted by Mossy Monk
if you connect your STB to a radio with phono leads you can get tons of radio stations through the radios speakers

Radio 1 (MW and FM)

Is the mono feed on Dsat MW and the stereo feed FM?

2FM
RnaG
Lyric FM

they are the only Irish ones i know about available via any satellite

Of course you can't receive these directly on a Radio, you need a STB as Mossey said.

AFAIK no radio stations available to SkyDigital customers are encrypted. I think you can get a dedicated Audio Satellite decoder which is more suited to being used for this purpose than a Sky box - it will cost more, however.

shabbyroad

"STB"

what is that ?

Lennoxschips

set top box, i.e. a digibox

watty

STB = Set Top Box

Analog Cable and Digital Satellite are very different.

Cable:
Many areas the cable carries BBC stations on the VHF Band II so just connecting the cable to a Radio via a splitter gives stations on the radio.

Satellite: All satellite receiver boxes (STBs) connect either to TV and/or the HiFi AUX in. NEVER to a radio aerial socket.

1) Analog.
There are hundreds. Over 30 still on the old Sky Analog.

2) ADR (Astra Digital Radio). This is obsolete. It used a special digital receiver plugged into the decoder or "baseband" ou on an Analog Satellite receiver. Some stations may still be running. Used in Germany. The Digital radio signalls are piggy backed on an Analog TV channel (a bit like Nicam).

3)Digital or DVBs Radio. This is just the same really as the way TV sound is carried on a Digital Satellite transponder, just no MPEG2 video. There are NO dedicated "Radio Only" receivers. All do video too. In Ireland you can receive over 1000 Free radio stations on Digital (but not all on the same satellite.

FOR 1, 2 or 3 you need a Dish pointed at the correct Satellite, with an LNB on its arm. (you can point a Dish at several satellites AT THE SAME TIME only by having multiple LNBs in a row at "correct" positions). The LNB is actually the firat part of any Satellite Receiver. A univeral LNB receives two bands, and can be used for Digital or Analog. Digital always needs both bands. Analog often only needs the lower band.

The Digital or Analog Receiver may or may not have a "decoder" (Digiboxes have only a Sky decoder, other boxes can have any decoder except a Sky decoder). Generally radio does need a decoder (5Live, TalkSport and 5 Live Extra need decoder, as do the "Music Choice" channels).

It is best to feed a HiFi with the receiver.

A PC Card receiver (Hauppauge Nexus or PCi DVBs) will feed HiFi and record direct to hard disk to make DVD, SVCD or MP3 directly later.

4) WorldSpace Satellite Radio:
This is a different waveband to regular DVBs(Digital) or Analog Satellite. It is a Euro 200 approx. portable satellite radio with a "pocket sized" aerial that can be aligned in less than minute. Most channels are free. While beamed at Africa, it works well here and even in North Scotland. Some Worldspace Radios do MW/LW/SW/FM-VHF too (The kind to buy IMHO).

See www.lyngsat.com for "regular" Analog and Digital Satellite Radio.

Note that even the Analog satellite Radio can be superior to VHF-FM as it uses TWO mono FM carriers for stereo instead of the rather noisier FM -multiplex system.

DVBs Digital Radio can use anything from 64K mono (terrible) to 256K Stereo (good & typical). By comparison many UK DAB stations on DAB at 112K or 128K are 265K on satellite.

Worldspace is 32K to 128K typically as it is a "high quality" replacement for shortwave.


On a Digibox "pointed" at "Sky" even with no subscription there are about 60 stations to feed your HiFi, inc about 12 BBC, RTE1, 2FM, Lyric and R na G. (No Todya FM etc).

With an extra LNB or a moved dish a Digibox will pickup about 70 .. 100+ on Hotbirds 13 or Astra 19, but only in "Other channels", not the EPG. A Humax F1 Fox or similar is better for other satellites (If not using a PC card, which is brilliant).
The Digibox "Other channels" can store 50, but tends to lose all of them if you add more than 20.


The PC card or any other Digital Satellite receiver will work with all the TV & Radio that works on Digibox without a card.

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by Richard
Is the mono feed on Dsat MW and the stereo feed FM?

yeah on both.

for those who don't know the MW version is on the EPG number 892 IIRC

the FM feed needs to be tuned in manually. you can find it at 10.744 H 22.0 5/6

martpp

Hi

Is it possible to connect the 1 LNB on a digital sky dish into the sky box as normal and into a PC card for recieving radio stations at the same time as TV stations through the box.... Or will I need two LNBs.

Thanks

Tony

Originally posted by martpp
Hi

Is it possible to connect the 1 LNB on a digital sky dish into the sky box as normal and into a PC card for recieving radio stations at the same time as TV stations through the box.... Or will I need two LNBs.

Thanks

You need one lnb with two or more outputs, only quads are available for sky dishes at present.

Tony