Re: Sky satellites

Charles Ellson wrote:
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:52:30 +0000 (UTC), David Taylor
<davidt-news@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2009-09-13, The dog from that film you saw <dsb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Donwill" <Donwill.seesig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7h43pmF2qmlr4U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


There is no such thing as Sky satellites.

Yeees right, the satellites that Sky use then, Astra is that OK.
the satellites are all still at the same orbital position - imagine the havoc if we all had to move our dishes overnight - and to what end ?
HotBird 1 is 0.2 deg further East than the Astra group. An easy
mistake to make when setting up is to forget to check the signal
levels on channels from both positions; under marginal reception
conditions this can result in loss of one lot but not the other if the
aim is not between the two positions but to the far side of either
position.

The satellites do, however, move around a bit (see the recent
'satellite positions' thread). It is possible that one satellite has
ended up in an "extreme" position causing problems for reception
where the signal was marginal to begin with.

But a functional dish/LNB properly aligned and with a clear view of
the sky should have no problems...


I have a larger than normal sky dish , it moved with me from a previous house. I assume that it has a smaller angle of signal acceptance than a smaller dish, I'm not sure what the technical term is, perhaps tighter focus . It probably has a higher peaked gain when positioned correctly but is more critical of setting the azimuth and elevation.
Don
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