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Subject: Re: Alarm + 2D Reception in Lanzarote

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Outsider

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Date Posted: 00:20:25 01/30/04 Fri
In reply to: Charles 's message, "Alarm + 2D Reception in Lanzarote" on 23:54:11 01/29/04 Thu

>Yesterday I went to look at a newly installed 2.4m
>Channelmaster and establish how successful the
>reception of 2D (BBC & ITV) has turned out here in
>Lanzarote.
>
>During my disccusion with the publican who was very
>helpful, he told me he has heard a rumour, supposedly
>from a reliable source, that the 2D footprint is to be
>tightened up considerably to the extent that most of
>the spillover from the UK will cease.
>
>It is claimed that this will happen very shortly and
>outside of the UK the BBC & ITV will be gone forever!
>His advice was not to invest in a large dish until
>this rumour is squashed or proven correct so guys your
>comments please!
>
>The upside of the discussion was that reception of
>both BBC & ITV is good most of the time but is weather
>sensitive and not 24 x 7 which was a little
>dissapointing.

This has been discussed earlier and there are some steps that they could take to make the reception more difficult (e.g. turn the Astra 2D footprint away from Europe, reduce transmission power, change FEC, etc.) but this is limited because the reception in UK must still be possible with those small minidishes. A tighter footprint, certainly it's possible, but they need to replace Astra 2D with a new satellite for that!

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Re: Alarm + 2D Reception in Lanzarote	Outsider	02:54:01 01/30/04 Fri