eurobird

[breadnbutter]

hi

can anyone help , what size dish ,or equipment for frees sat, i would need to hook on to eurobird,from uk south east.

thanks

 

[Stivino]

See if this is any help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurobird

 

[digitaly]

Check this out...

http://www.dishpointer.com/


I wold suggest you at least 60cm but if you don't mind 80cm use that as it would be easyer to find a signal if you are not experienced sat installar

 

[Sam Gangee]

You'll need a Freesat receiver connected to an LNB on a dish aligned on the Astra-2 "28°E" satellite cluster, of which Eurobird-1 is a member.

Eurobird carries only a few of the programme channels plus the EPG signal. Most of the programmes are transmitted by the Astra satellites.

Note that 28.2°E is the angle subtended by the satellites from the meridian and not a compass bearing.

 

[breadnbutter]

thanks
i can only live stream christian channels via broadband,in which i am limited down load ,thanks to not so generous b.t. .
The christian channels are on free to air sat eurobird 1 .

 

[Sam Gangee]

I wold suggest you at least 60cm but if you don't mind 80cm use that as it would be easyer to find a signal if you are not experienced sat installar

I disagree. A larger dish has a smaller "angle of focus" so the margin of error is correspondingly smaller. That means that alignment is more critical - more difficult - than with a smaller dish.

Nevertheless, if you want to improve your "rain margin", a larger dish would be better. It's a matter of compromise: performance against aesthetics and cost and ease of installation, as well as consideration of factors such as wind resistance and whether your wife would go crazy when she saw a monster wok screwed to her wall!

 

[breadnbutter]

i got the 60cm mesh eiliptical dish,bskyb zone 2,mk 4 lnb.

 

[Sam Gangee]

Mesh dishes are generally for C-Band reception so I assume you mean "perforated" dish.