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Subject: Re: Rome reception of ASTRA2D

Author:
Dave Branson

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Date Posted: 02:59:32 10/29/03 Wed
In reply to: Pedant 's message, "Re: Rome reception of ASTRA2D" on 14:09:36 08/31/03 Sun

>>>Anthony but the new footprint charts clearly states
>>>that here a 180 offset should do the work, after all
>>>in Florence they use a 150 ( and it's just 250 km
>from
>>>here...)
>>>
>>>
>>>>Rome is a bit out of range,I'd say 3.7-3.8m dish and
>>>>0.3dBLNB and a receiver with a good low threshold or
>>>>if you can do so, I would personally prefer a 4-4.5m
>>>>to allow for bad weather signal strength reduction
>>due
>>>>to rain/snow/fog etc with the above LNB and receiver
>>>>equipment requirements I mention put into play if
>you
>>>>want to get it with good 24:7 reception. Give it a
>>try
>>>>and tell me how you get on!
>>this forum is fro south east europe, do you Brits know
>>that Rome is in Central Europe, do they teach you
>>anything or are you jue the typical arrogent Brit who
>>thinks he knows all, ha ha
>The thread actually started as southern and eastern
>Europe, Joe (not south-eastern Europe), so the title
>could cover Spain, Italy and Greece as well as Russia,
>Finland and Bulgaria.

Having had experience with setting up my dish for BBC reception here 40 kms south of Florence,i am getting BBC
fine, apart from in bad weather,when it tends to break up.
I think Anthony,s problem is not the size of the dish for reception in Rome,its most likely the Installers,and suitable LNB/Receiver.
The installer of my dish( 2 metre) is a nice guy,but he used 3 LNB,S
and two receivers without succes,i got an AFT LNB and a SAB receiver from Holland,hooked them up and hy presto it worked.his face was a picture.
Only advice i can offer is the same as everybody else
be patient,when adjusting the Skew.
For the record my SONY digibox is useless for 2D reception.

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