Question: Free Satellites carrying English channels.

network_engineer · Post by **network_engineer** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:50 pm

Hi all,

Sorry, I am sure this information can be found off the Internet, but being tied for time, I need to ask: Does anybody which satellite I could use to receive programmes free and in English? Also the direction (e.g. Canal+ is 1W) would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Kind regards!

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raamv · Post by **raamv** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:47 am

www.lyngsat.com

network_engineer · Post by **network_engineer** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:35 am

Hi raamv,

Thanks. The page is quite hard to figure out.

Would you have an idea what satellite and what direction?

Thanks a lot.

Kind regards,
Ben

bevanrl · Post by **bevanrl** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 4:32 pm

one way is to click on the free tv link and then choose a country you think might have english language programs (eg UK)
http://www.lyngsat.com/freetv/Europe.html

that will show some channels and the satellite they're on. the same channel might be on more than one satellite (eg BBC world). and even on more than one beam.
but even if you can see the satellite the beam might not cover finland, so click on the link in the "beam" column and it will show a map showing the coverage for that transponder.

for example you can see that BBC world is broadcast free to air from 6 different satellites but not all of them cover finland.
you can ignore anything on astra 2D - the signal is far too weak in finland even with a 2m dish.

The most common locations to point your dish are 13E and 19E. perhaps 28.2E as well.

finally english language channels might be broadcast from non english speaking countries (like france 24 which is in english but listed on the France page. The flags are for the country that broadcasts the signal, not the language or the place where you can receive it.

raamv · Post by **raamv** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:45 pm

Yep. 13E is Hotbird with the most no. of FTA channels, whether it be in English or otherwise..

network_engineer · Post by **network_engineer** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:34 am

Hi all,

Can I ask: How exactly do I figure out where is 13 degrees east? I have a compass, but according to the markings on the compass 13 degrees ain't east! Can somebody explain??? Geography and navigation isn't exactly my cup of tea!

The other logical thing that I can think of is just to point the dish east and then 13 degrees would be the angle (i.e. if zero and 180 were horizontal). Beyond that I am a bit lost.

Thanks.

richard berman · Post by **richard berman** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:00 pm

Anyone ever used Dream Box, I was speaking to a friend and he has this set-up and gets all UK channels, he paid 500 or 600€ to set it up and pays 250€ a year. Has anyone got anythink to say about it???

FFCBOY · Post by **FFCBOY** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:10 pm

Not sure about the dream box idea richard but if my memory is right,
didnt you say that you had a Sky Box fitted and that you could pick up the BBC channels etc for your kids etc.
If this is right im thinking of doing the same, as im popping over to uk next week and could pick up everything i need when over there to set up the system..
Any ideas on this..

richard berman · Post by **richard berman** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:32 pm

Yes, but to get BBc ITV and now even C4 you need a big dish 2 to 3 metres, I have never gotten BBc only because I have a small dish , other wise I would get it. But this friend with the dream box gets it all with only a 1.2 metre dish, I will have to ask him more as he is into this kind of stuff.

Jukka Aho · Post by **Jukka Aho** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:17 am

richard berman wrote:Anyone ever used Dream Box, I was speaking to a friend and he has this set-up and gets all UK channels, he paid 500 or 600€ to set it up and pays 250€ a year. Has anyone got anythink to say about it???

If we’re talking about the same thing – and not just something that has the same name – Dreambox has been discussed in several posts here already.

Dreambox is not a single product, but a brand name for Dream Multimedia’s product line of Linux-based, “open” DVB receivers. They have several different models. Some of them are for cable, some for terrestrial reception, and some for satellite reception. Some have user-exchangeable tuner modules and allow even hybrid configurations (DVB-C and DVB-S tuners in the same device, for example.)

All of them also have an Ethernet connector and allow cardsharing and the installation and usage of user-written software plugins. But if your friend is not taking part in any sort of (legally questionable) cardsharing scheme – and he probably isn’t, if he’s paying a monthly fee – I’m not sure why any DVB-S receiver wouldn’t do... unless, of course, your friend just likes the open-ended expandability, and/or specifically wants to use something else than a proprietary box.

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