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31/5/2011 at 10:58am
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Narbonne is far South, almost Spain in fact, so you will be lucky to get the FTA BBC/ITV channels with a 60cm Dish, an 80cm Dish would be better, we now use a 80cm Dish for the Southern Ardeche, in fact you can just spot it in my gallery photo.
The advantage of not using a Sky box, is that if you are in a poor Sky (Astra2D) signal Location, you can point the Dish at another satellite, such as Eutelsat/Intelsat at least then you would still be able to get at least one English language TV channel such as BBC World news which is of course FTA.
Sky box's only work when pointed at Astra2 as they require info for the default transponder setting, you can reset the default transponder, but it s a faff.
We take a Sky Mini-Box with us, but for backup have a Comag (Aldi) none Sky box for use on other satellites. both unts are 12v/mans and quite small in size.
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Narbonne is far South, almost Spain in fact, so you will be lucky to get the FTA BBC/ITV channels with a 60cm Dish, an 80cm Dish would be better, we now use a 80cm Dish for the Southern Ardeche, in fact you can just spot it in my gallery photo.
The advantage of not using a Sky box, is that if you are in a poor Sky (Astra2D) signal Location, you can point the Dish at another satellite, such as Eutelsat/Intelsat at least then you would still be able to get at least one English language TV channel such as BBC World news which is of course FTA.
To see what size Dish you need, have a look at the SES Astra wbsite, and look at the FootPrint ma, given for Astra2D this is the main sateelite of the fleet at 28 deg East, that carries the BBC/ITV FTA channels along with the default transpoder info for Sky box users, the map info shown is not 100% acurate as local conditions apply, but it is a good rough guide.
Alternativley google BBC/ITV satellite Narbonne, and you may find some local reports of Dish size used, which will be the most accurate info of all.
Sky box's only work when pointed at Astra2 as they require info for the default transponder setting, you can reset the default transponder, but it's a faff.
We take a Sky Mini-Box with us, but for backup have a Comag (Aldi) none Sky box for use on other satellites. both unts are 12v/mains and quite small in size.
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