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Subject: Re: Poor or non-reception of ASTRA2D in southern and eastern europe


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lyn bevington
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Date Posted: 23:43:09 09/18/03 Thu
In reply to: Anthony 's message, "Poor or non-reception of ASTRA2D in southern and eastern europe" on 06:01:15 08/13/03 Wed
 >Looking through the reception reports for Southern and
>Eastern Europe, I can safely the reasons why people
>are getting mixed results with poor or non-reception
>of ASTRA2D in Southern and Eastern Europe are purely
>because;
>(a)The ASTRA2D footprint doesn't officially cover
>those parts of Europe,
>(b)Use of too small a dish size(see worldwide
>reception map for footprints and dish sizes you should
>use),
>(c)a receiver with a high threshold rating,
>(d)Too high a noise level on your dish LNB.
>Viewers in Turkey and Cyprus and Greece and areas to
>the extreme edge of the footprint would be best to use
>a 3.7m (I'd say a 4-4.5m dish to provide some margin
>for bad weather signal strength)dish and 0.3dBLNB and
>a receiver that can cope well with weaker signal
>strengths.

What size dish would you think to be needed in Vienna. Some reports seem to indicate that a 180cm may work but others indicate that at least a 240cm would be needed.
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Re: Poor or non-reception of ASTRA2D in southern and eastern europeFluffy02:25:54 09/19/03 Fri

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