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Well the only UK channel your going to get is BBC World from Hotbird at 13East or Astra1 at 19.2East, and for that a 60cm should do the trick, but I would use a 80cm, as for the regular BBC/ITV stuff that we get here, which comes from the Astra2 fleet at 28.2East, you will need a Dish of around 3metres in diameter!, and I am not joking, unless you get very lucky and find a hotspot, and there are some, then your 80cm may get you a picture, if your on the French side of Spain, then your prospects will be a little better, but on the whole, Spain is a pain for recieving UK satellite channels, as many ex-pats will concure.

Andy.

Dont know where your going but we were in Alcossebre in january and could recieve BBC1 and ITV with a 85 cm dish , occasionally losing BBC in bad weather .Some vanners had 1.3 metre dishes and were recieving all BBC&ITV  24/7 however the further south you go into Spain you will need 1.5 or 2 meter . We are of to La Manga in january and am looking at buying a larger dish or possibly renting one for the duration of our stay

We will also be at La Manga for around 5 weeks starting Feb 5, last year we used a 900mm dia. dish and could get mainly Channel 5 and BBC News 24.

If you are into sport then if you press the text button whlie on BBC News 24 you can access some live sport

Quote: Originally posted by Mike+Co on 20/8/2009

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We will also be at La Manga for around 5 weeks starting Feb 5, last year we used a 900mm dia. dish and could get mainly Channel 5 and BBC News 24.

If you are into sport then if you press the text button whlie on BBC News 24 you can access some live sport

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It's crazy realy as when Sky was in analogue, all you needed was a 80cm Dish anywhere in Spain, even for the BBC/ITV Channels, and this even remained the case for a short time when digital came along, what messed things up was the launch of Astra2 D, once that was operational, the BBC/ITV channels migrated to what is known as the UK spot beam, which also carries the default transponder info, that tells the Sky box to start working, all in all a it's a bit of a dogs breakfast.

Andy.

Hi jaymac.

               That's interesting, and quite possible, no reason why the campsite could not have a satellite conection at each EHU point, problem is the feed dish would have to be pointing at the Astra2 satellite, and I think it would be more likley to be pointing at Astra1, HotBird or Hispasat, as to cater for the Spanish/German/Dutch/French campers if that's the case, BBC World would be just about the only English channel available. from the campsites point of view this would mean only having to say use a 80cm Dish and not a 2m Dish.

Andy

Quote: Originally posted by jaymac on 21/8/2009

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I thought I'd heard that on sites like La Manga it was possible to hire a share of a dish, is this right?

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