55. 5 west intelsat 805 ?

[leesouthnufc]

hi any experts out their is this possble to pick up in uk ... many thanks lee

[Sasqwatch]

No

[satwyn]

all transponders seem to be c band only aimed at the americas

[leesouthnufc]

thanks
alot cheers

[satwyn]

when I had my 2M c band dish up I think I used to pick up south american channels from this sat but i'm not sure if it was 55W

[leesouthnufc]

i just was nt sure satwyn.. i knew it was c band and not ku ... i thught it might be beamed over far west ...

[Eugenie]

The C-band beam is fully accessable in most of Europe, Intelsat 805 is actually quite strong. I used to pick up a majority of the frequencies in the south of Sweden with a Gibertini OP120(!) and a lnbf for C-band...and this was using regular scalarrings meant for prime focus dishes. I could watch a fair number of the channels.
I would of course recommend a larger dish for full coverage.

[leesouthnufc]

The C-band beam is fully accessable in most of Europe, Intelsat 805 is actually quite strong. I used to pick up a majority of the frequencies in the south of Sweden with a Gibertini OP120(!) and a lnbf for C-band...and this was using regular scalarrings meant for prime focus dishes. I could watch a fair number of the channels.
I would of course recommend a larger dish for full coverage.

yes interesting... can you pick up all arc ( european) in sweden .. i e 7 west nilesat over their m8 and how strong .. going back to intelsat seems to be some decent fta sport sometimes ... i recon yous are right would need a huge dish ...

[Waltwal]

I have just had a look at 55.5w using 1.8 m Para-Clipse dish
and echostar 3600 there are scrambled chs on 3901 3776 and 2fta each on3451 and4095
these look like Mexicon chs.
Waltwal

[leesouthnufc]

canny ..m8. ne england i think it would take huge dish ... hav been looking at some big dishs and have a go at nilesat aswell its just they are very expensive

[Eugenie]

@leesouthnufc. As far as arc goes, it is of great importance where in Sweden one is located since it is a rather wast country from north to south. Down here in the almost absolute south of Sweden (latitude 55.4N) the typical Ku-band arc here at my location (longitude 13.8E) -providing free line of sight- is Express AM 2 at 80 east (elevation of 4.8 degrees) over to Intelsat 9 at 58 west (elevation of 1.9 degrees). The Insat satellites (C-band) at 83 east can also be reached at an elevation of 3.2 degrees.

Nilesat 101/102 at 7 west can both be received on conditions similar to those of the south east of England I reckon. Atlanticbird4, also located at 7 west, is much harder to pull in and requires a much larger dish then Nilesat 101/102.

[leesouthnufc]

interesting reading eugenie .. thanks again ..