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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
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We used to take a 1m Dish down to Frejus, for Freesat Reception, and that worked OK back in 2019, although some days you would get a strong enough signal and other days you would struggle.
OK in a former life I used to be a satellite system installer, so it was more about the challenge, and putting two fingers up to the powers that be, who put Freesat on a FTA Spot Beam, to prevent reception outside of UK with a sensible size Dish say 60cm max.
This really annoyed me, and I hoped Freesat would have been FTV (Soft Encrypted) and remained on ASTRA 1 (19.2 East) on a Wide Beam Transponder, enabling reception anywhere in Western Europe via a 60cm Dish, but alas stupidly this was not to be the case.
Of course this is what the French did with there equivalent of Freesat, called Francsat, which can be received anywhere in Western Europe on a 60CM dish from Telcom 2C, including here in the UK.
Anyway I have decided to Ditch the 1m Dish, and use a Attisat FL500 Flat Plate antenna which I was sent as a free sample for testing, back in 1994 !.
So that is the satellite antenna I will be using this year in Frejus, of course it will be useless for Freesat reception from Astra 2 (28.2 East), but fine for receiving Sky News Int from either Astra 1 (19.2 East) and Hotbird (13.0 East) along with Bloomberg, Euronews, France 24, Voice of America, BBC World and CNN, as you may have guessed I am only interested in news channels, but as the campsite has rubbish wi-fi, and phone signal is equally bad, satellite will be better than nothing, also the Attisat FL500 packs small, and I will be using a Silvercrest (Lidl) SL45 HDMI Comag satellite receiver, all ancient kit, but hopefully will do the job.
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