Eurobird 2 at 25.5°E

[wwe]

Does anyone know if this bird can be reached from Alicante in Spain?

cheers

wwe

[Krikkitt]

I get pictures on 11075 from up here and a lock on 2 or 3 of the other transponders so you should get better results from down there

Rgds


K.:)

[wwe]

Sorry m8 where are and what size dish my dish is 1 metre will this do,

cheers

wwe

[Krikkitt]

I'm in Oxfordshire with a 125cm Gibertini CM feedhorn and inverto C120 twin LNB.

Try 11075, that seems to be the strongest.

Rgds



K.:)

[Fil]

krikkitt, your doing well!

_http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/maps/eb2.html

[renibacterium]

Not a whimper in SW England with an accurately set up arc hugging 2metre dish. Are you sure krikkitt? 1) Where you live (not Oxfordshire, UK) ? & 2) What channels you are actually picking up on 11075V ?

[dostoy]

I have wondered how big a dish you need to get this and other satellites.

If someone in southern England can get it on a 1.25 metre dish but somebody else also in southern England cannot get it on a 2 metre dish then that confuses me completely.

Are your dishes ground or wall mounted ?

[renibacterium]

@ dostoy

I have talked to you before on another forum about this satellite (and some others) via PM's. I would not get your hopes up!

[dostoy]

We have talked before about this kind of thing but I cannot understand how one person can get it but another, who has a bigger dish, cannot.

Just wondered if ground or wall mounted made any difference.

I would love a bigger dish but I do not know how big I need or how much it would cost as dishes 1.8 metre or bigger are hard to find or at least they are for me.

I am not asking because of premiership football I am just interested generally.

Anybody got any ideas where to get one ?

[Krikkitt]

Not a whimper in SW England with an accurately set up arc hugging 2metre dish. Are you sure krikkitt? 1) Where you live (not Oxfordshire, UK) ? & 2) What channels you are actually picking up on 11075V ?
Have been in the process of squeezing the last drops out of this sail for the last few months and into the DX thing more than actually watching anything :rolleyes:.

So yes it's Oxforshire UK , and post 1 is a SC/shot of the Aviation channel, post 2 is the transponder scan of the same sat (Eurobird and Badr have been lumped together as one sat but Badr doesn't transmit 11075 obviously), and post 3 is a scan of Nilesat. Just to show that the Gibbi is working well and I'm not in a freaky side lobe ;)


Rgds


K.:)