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Subject: Re: Astra 2D in Malta

Author:
Chris Pollard

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Date Posted: 01:41:40 12/14/03 Sun
In reply to: Ken 's message, "Re: Astra 2D in Malta" on 13:12:59 12/13/03 Sat

>
>>I live in Malta and we do not receive 2D.
>
>OK, but what size dish have you got?
>
A 1 metre dish with an Echostar DSB1000 2ci receiver. Also able to receive Astra 2B with a minidish and the Echostar receiver but not with a Grundig digibox. At the moment we are aligned to Eutelsat (16 degrees) and have an extra lnb for Hotbird (13) but the BBC radio fails when we try to connect the minidish as well so we don't bother.

>Recently a
>>local shop advertised that it was able to install a
>>system but hasn't been able to demonstrate as yet. He
>>says a 2.75 metre dish is necessary - any ideas?
>
>That would be about right, but has it produced any
>tangible results?
>
As I said they haven't been able to demonstrate it as yet.

>Any chance of someone putting the television on a similar
>feed?
>
>Don't count on it. If they did it it would probably be
>encrypted, as Eutelsat tends to have a bigger
>footprint, and the encryption would be different from
>Sky. (BBC News 24 and Five have also used Eutelsat, as
>does BFBS TV, whose encryption is watertight.)
>
>There's a website called www.malta.tv, which says you
>can watch CNN and Rai Uno as long as you are in Malta-
>you have to click on a thing to confirm that that's
>where you are. I phoned and asked if I could watch it
>outside Malta, and the bloke said it was OK. However,
>I needed a Maltese ID card number (of which I don't
>know the format) although I just filled in my number
>in Malta as 21 xxx xxx.
>
There's no problem getting CNN here from various satellites.

>Happy Republic Day, by the way.

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Re: Astra 2D in Malta	Ken	12:19:40 12/14/03 Sun