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Dish size, 50cm for Northern France, then say 80cm for just South of Lyon, down on the Cote d Azur you may just get away with 1m.
Western end of the Med, forget about it, Dish in excess of 1.8m required.
Get a decent LNB for the Dish, Inverto and Invacom are the best of the best.
We use a Gibertini 1m Dish for down in Frejus, which gets us Sky News all the time, and BBC/iTV some days not others.
To make aligning the Dish easy, we use a Digital Angle finder to set the elevation, and then a SatLink 6906 meter to find the Astra2 satellite.
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Now that is interesting JTQU as Channel 4 is indeed carried on one of the Spot Beam Transponders, of course not a problem when you are in the footprint zone.
But should you be out of footprint with an undersized Dish, EasyFind may not detect a signal, although you could probably still be able to pick up say Sky News and a few radio stations.
I can understand why they would choose a Freesat Channel, but it would have been more useful had they chosen one on the Wide Beam such as Sky News.
As an example, EasyFind would not have found Astra2 when we were down at Frejus last July using a 1m Dish, although I was able to locate the Satellite, but for the most part only got Sky News and a few other TV and Radio that were none Freesat as such.
However without any adjustment to the Dish or LNB, there was the odd day or so were we were getting all the Freesat channels, the weather was perfect all the time, so I can only put down that Freesat came and went, due to the subtle movements of the satellite, which would have no effect for those within footprint, but can mean loss of some channels for those on the edge of footprint using an undersized dish.
And this were my little SatLink 6906 comes in real handy, it's 3" TV screen is enough to tell me that I have found Astra2 even if I am not getting all the Freesat channels.
Of course another issue is how good are the EasyFind LNB's in a weak signal location, it is well known that Invacom and Inverto LNB's perform better than most in low signal locations.
Don't get me wrong, I think EasyFind is a great system, but you need as many aces as you can get, when looking for Astra2 out of footprint.
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