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I have a Comag and it has been quite good, also has the advantage of being compact. What size dish are you taking? When they change satellites it appears that it is going to be increasing difficult to get UK programs in Spain.

David

Lydiak

Depending on how far south you are going that could be a bit optimisitic. We don't go to Spain that much but from reading posts on other forums you would be lucky to get much south of Barcelona. All this is a bit academic until we know the actual footprint of the new satellite which by most reports will have a much tighter footprint. Trouble is until its in place we can't say with any accuracy. Don't know if Francais has seen this thread but he usually has a bit more info.

David

David the 2F sat is in place and transmitting with a much reduced footprint. Dish size has now become very important. It is possible that on the coast of France rece[tion may well be unlikely on anything less than a 1 metre dish.  Reception reports can be read on Rob's sat webpage

John

  http://robssatellitetv.webs.com/astra2freceptionreports.htm

Personally, I'd wait a little until more stable reports come in, they are still testing/tweaking  2F.

Andy

Quote: Originally posted by hymerman2 on 21/3/2013

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Just returned from the Algarve and rented a metre+ dish as my 80m was not a goer, the guy that provided the dish was only buying in single dishes as he does not know what reception will be like with the new sat.

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Quote: Originally posted by Francais on 17/3/2013

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Back in the day a 50cm was more than adequate to get a picture, so much for progress.

In 1993 at Biot Antibes a 90cm Dish was fine on a heavy shaded campsite Camping du Pylon, not sure that would work in these times.

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