Can I get these Spanish TV channels in Ireland?

according to Satbeams the footprint for ABS 3A over the SW of Ireland is saying a dish size of 60cm so should be ok - I take it your existing dish is pointing at astra 28 so it will need to ne moved - a competent installer or yourself should sort you out

These are all also available on 19.2e on ku band. Excellent signal here in Dublin. No need for new lnb if you point your dish there. They are part of the Moviestar package. They are also encrypted.

TDT is not satellite. It is terrestrial TV in Spain through an aerial, the equivalent of Saorview and Freeview.

There are some Spanish stations Free to Air on the satellite at 30 West, which are strong signals in Ireland.

https://www.flysat.com/hispasat.php

Thinking of getting this TDT package. Would be great if anyone who has it could mention how it's working out for them?

If you want to keep Sky or Freesat channels then I suppose you need a second dish?

Any trouble with getting that Televes receiver to work?

Looks like it's intended to be used in Spain only by people who cannot otherwise get those channels via terrestrial reception?

Cheers,

Flex

The two Hispasat satellites at 30W are home to the feeds that supply the DTT/TDT networks in Spain. They are nominally broadcast free-to-air but transmit using a non-standard MPEG transport stream that hides the TV channels from a standard free-to-air satellite receiver. Many of the more recent Enigma 2 based receivers can receive these channels with a bit of software patching, while the Technomate TM-5402-M4 can receive and show these channels on their own with the latest firmware for that receiver (self-confirmation) although I have noticed some audio sync issues on a few of the HD channels. Alternatively, sourcing a "TDT sat" receiver from Spain should also work.

The Hispasat footprints are fairly strong over Ireland, strongest in Wexford/Waterford/Cork and weakest in Donegal. Here in Tyrone I'd recommend at least an 80cm for reliable "most weathers" reception for the DTT/TDT channels, you might get away with a 60cm in the south-east.

The link below will take you to the channels available from Hispasat 30W-5 & 30W-6 at 30 degrees West - the transponders containing the DTT/TDT feeds are labelled "Abertis DTT". In addition there are a couple of DTT feeds for regional broadcasters that require a higher quality signal than the Abertis DTT feeds, so are more vulnerable to either losing signal in wet weather or not being received at all without a larger dish (the only advantage for the regional DTT/TDT feeds is that they can be received by any FTA satellite receiver that can handle DVB-S2 multistreams).

https://www.flysat.com/en/satellite/position/30-w

You can hear Spanish stations on Medium Wave in Ireland during hours of part light / darkness. Some frequencies are very strong, but they reduced power recently to save money.

A sort of a half way house is online receivers all round the world, which you can tune just as if you were in Spain or wherever. There are a few in Ireland. If you are using Medium Wave the channels are 9 kHz 531 to 1602. AM mode, and if you click on the AM button it becomes AMN (narrower filter). Lots of other stuff e.g. if you select Navtex from the Extensions drop down menu, you can read the maritime navigational information being sent from coast stations on 490 and 518 kHz.

http://kiwisdr.com/public/