New Signal Reduction

montgolfiere · Post by **montgolfiere** » Fri 08 Aug 2014 09:12

since Tuesday evening, the signal from 2f has dropped leading to the loss, for at least part of the day, of reception of the likes of C5 4/7 etc. Reception from 2e is, at the moment, holding up.

martyn94 · Post by **martyn94** » Sat 09 Aug 2014 22:19

I'd forgotten that dishes were still being used. Is there any consensus yet on the size of dish for adequate reception (ie most of the time: I wouldn't mind some outage) well south of Perpignan, eg Port Vendres?

Smiley G · Post by **Smiley G** » Mon 11 Aug 2014 09:57

martyn94 wrote:I'd forgotten that dishes were still being used. Is there any consensus yet on the size of dish for adequate reception (ie most of the time: I wouldn't mind some outage) well south of Perpignan, eg Port Vendres?

The last I heard was South of Perpignan, a 180cm was the minimum required. I know someone with a 125cm dish is, like me, using the internet.

martyn94 · Post by **martyn94** » Mon 11 Aug 2014 10:44

Thanks. As I feared. But at least it's clear cut: 180cm is so much bigger than I can contemplate that I can forget satellite for good.

neil mitchell · Post by **neil mitchell** » Mon 11 Aug 2014 13:44

I know, I've abandoned satellite now (except for Sky News). As long as you can get a decent Mbps you can get a good IPTV solution in so many ways. I tried UKEPATTV and I'm really happy with them, their prices/packages are very reasonable, the picture quality is good and their 14 day catch up is good. IPTV is the way ahead down here.

martyn94 · Post by **martyn94** » Mon 11 Aug 2014 14:39

My only fear - if that's the right word - is that I would watch even less via IPTV than I already do via satellite. I'm conditioned by decades of catching TV programmes when broadcast or not at all. Once you can get them on demand, and stop and re-start, the chances of my ever finishing one, or even starting most of them, fall to almost nil. Still, I suppose that there are always charades, or knitting.

russell · Post by **russell** » Tue 12 Aug 2014 17:54

BBC and ITV from Intelsat 907 is working fine on an 80 cm dish in St Feliu.

Russell

neil mitchell · Post by **neil mitchell** » Thu 14 Aug 2014 09:17

I did think of using Intelsat 907 but it would be the kiss of death because I know that if I spent the Eur 150 on the special receiver they'd change the Biss key system the next week to something which can't be hacked and then everyone would be kippered!!

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Thu 14 Aug 2014 09:20

Neil...In that case thank you for not buying one !!!!

British TV · Post by **British TV** » Thu 28 Aug 2014 15:14

Have you had your dishes Professionally realigned?

Did that make any difference?

http://digitaltvlanguedoc.eu/

russell · Post by **russell** » Fri 29 Aug 2014 10:22

British TV wrote:Have you had your dishes Professionally realigned?

No. I set up a dish on Intelsat 907 for a friend using an accurate compass (from my sailing days) and a cheapo satellite finder, one of these:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Konig-Sat-Fin ... 414c9a0813

Russell.

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