I know this is OT, but does anybody know of any problems with attempting to recieve Sky Satellite Digital transmissions in France. Surely it's just a case of aligning the dish correctly, or would it require a bigger dish than those small digtal dishes?
PS. How DO you align a sky dish?
Alex
Have a look at this. It's somewhere to start.
Maplin. Little (non returnable) alignment box. I have something similar, which does far less and cost nearly a Grand. 20 odd quid from Maplin is a far better bet, IMO :-)
"Alex" wrote
Friends of mine moved from N. Cornwall to the Toulouse region and have Sky so it's certainly possible.
We got it in the caravan down in Biarritz this summer with a mini dish and standard Pace box. Bigger dishes are ok for better reception but more tricky to set up. Any further south and I recon we'd be pushing our luck.
Lee D
The sky is not always 'up'. sure, it looks like it, but it can sometimes be sideways, occasiobally 'down'. I once did an uplink whilst the dish was pointing 'down' toward a local church. The tech on that job did 'Songs of Praise' a few weeks later, we all had a drink to celebrate God knowing the sky is not always 'up' :-)
(I'm no expert on broadcast sats, by the way).
After finishing my training as a rtelecoms tech back in the Sixties, my first
3 jobs were worokiong on satellite earth stations (for Aussies - in Moree, Ceduna and Carnarvon).I dunno about Sky but some satellite service providers use antennae which put a "shaped" footprint onto the ground and which can omit large areas. Yiou need to know the footprint of the antennae (many satellites have multiple antennae with different radiation patterns.
Ron Beckett Emu Plains, Australia
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Si
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