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We are very reluctant to recommend any dish because the "footprint" might suggest one size but in practice you need a different size. If you are south of Barcelona or Milan you will be struggling to receive ITV or BBC with *any* dish, although people have had some success with quite large (and expensive) dishes. However, some local regions are "hot spots" where people have found the signal to be stronger than expected. So the best advice I can give is to ask people who
live close to you. If they can receive ITV, copy their system in every detail. Try to use the same make and model dish, LNB and receiver. Never mind what I sell - if theirs works, copy it! (and please give me the full details so I can advise others).
As a general rule, the bigger the dish the better and a solid dish tends to work better than a perforated or "mesh" dish. And for goodness sake don't buy one of those "bargain" C-Band dishes because the mesh is so wide that it lets the Ku band signals pass right through. (One guy covered his with aluminium foil - with very limited success) |
| BBC in North-west Italy |
The FTA BBC programmes on Astra 2 at 28deg are being received here in Ivrea, North-west Italy with a relatively small disk. I have an 85 cm disk with 3 LNBs: the centre is on Hotbird (13deg), then Astra 1 offset (19 deg) and then another offset for Astra 2 (28 deg). So I would think this is equivalent to around a 60cm disk.
I have a Humax CI-5100 receiver with a standard ALPS (Japan) off-the-shelf LNB which is 3 years old. The HUMAX provides signal strength for all programs, and the interesting ones are the following:
10788 V (BBC One Nottingham) 42%
10733 H (BBC News 24) 38%
12207 V (Sky News) 82%
12051 V (TCM) 59%
12302 H (ITV News) 82%
12324 V (Capital Gold Radio) 90%
10803 H (BBC Radio 2) 38%
10832 H (ITV London) 38% (ok with a Digibox)
10906 V (ITV2) 32% (ok with a Digibox)
All the above programs are also receivable with a Panasonic TU-DSB30 Digibox. |
| Tune Extra Channels on a Sky Digibox |
- press the "Services" button,
- Then Press "4"(sestem set up),
- Press "4" (add channels),
- You can now input the frequencies etc
- Find the channels and save them by highlighting them and pressing the "Yellow" Button.
- To watch press "Services", Then "6"(other channels), Then press "Select".
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