dish size 26 east

[halfax]

in the north of england what size dish is required to get mbc on 26 east?

[Glenn_911]

Halfax


You need a real big one:_ http://w*w.lyngsat.com/badr.html _ maybe 3 meters will do ?



Glenn_911

[satpaul]

I get it on a 1 metre in Lincoln
I fiited a 1.5 metre in Newcastle upon Tyne and he gets it on that :king-042:

[Glenn_911]

I get it on a 1 metre in Lincoln
I fiited a 1.5 metre in Newcastle upon Tyne and he gets it on that :king-042:

satpaul


That depend on your location in the UK an which Beam you are looking for ?


Glenn_911

[holmroad]

Think its a bit optimistic whats being said re MBC 25.5E, since I have a 1.2M dish in NORTH Lincs and currently get NO signal at all on MBC range of channels - but there was a little more in the summer months, but not strong enough to actually WATCH!
So I would go with Glenn on THIS occasion!:respect-069:

[harrydocuk]

i got mbc on a 1m dish in n.ireland, but they disappeared a while back.
think they changed beam. nothing now.

[satpaul]

Holmroads Dish size is 1 metre Orbital not 1.2 I fitted it

[malsat]

MBC = 58% stable picture with 1 mtr orbital in Wakefield,
where are you Halfax?
A quality dish and install is a must.

[satwyn]

mbc should be ok on 1.2-1.5 depending on the dish lnb and sat tuner I use andrews 1.2 in n wales no problems used to pick mbc on nilesat 7w with andrews 1.8M

[holmroad]

Well I've rescanned all the MBC channels 25.5 E and NOTHING - no matter WHAT Satpaul says its size is! lol!!!:woot-035:

[malsat]

Well I've rescanned all the MBC channels 25.5 E and NOTHING - no matter WHAT Satpaul says its size is! lol!!!:woot-035:

are you recieving anything from this sat?

[Grahamc]

I have a 1.2mtr dish and on the humax I can get 6 of the sports channels Saudi, Dubai 1 & 2, Bahrain, Youth and Jsc. Also football on AlHayat at the mo, but don't know if its sports all the time. I can get a signal from the Mbc channels but its telling me that the service is not running or scrambled ( don't know if its just the signal that is not strong enough ). I plan to try later with the Technomate - from the snowy Noth East of England.
I'll let you know if the other receiver is better or worse

Graham

[ABA]

i have 1m lenson heath dish here in nottingham just done a rescan and over 100 channels
including 8 mbc channels
mbc 1
mbc 2
mbc 3
mbc 4
mbc action
mbc persia
mbc max
mbc int
all mbc are in the clear
but strength and qullity are border line

[SatSearcher]

The MBC package on BADR4 has it's own special footprint which is this one:
_http://www.arabsat.com/ArabSat/English/TheFleet/In-OrbitSatellites/26°+East/MBC-Coverage.htm
Personally i don't think this footprint is very acurate as i get over 60% quality on MBC with my 1.2m dish. I reckon a 1m dish would do if aligned perfectly!

[notmyrealname]

I can confirm MBC 1,2 3,4 etc are ok on a 1m dish near Manchester. The signal is weak (just above the threshold in cloudy weather) but stable. Its not as strong as most of the other 250 channels I get from 26E,
regards,
M

[holmroad]

@Grahamc:
I can get all the channels you mention plus many others with pretty good strength/quality - but ZILCH from all the MBC range!:respect-050:

[kmc]

i get some channels on an 85cm dish in the north east,sometimes get mbc depending on the time of day and weather permitting.
regrads
kmc

[jayprince]

I live on the North Cornwall Coast,3 miles south of Padstow and I get all the MBC channels on 11919@26east,+loads of other channels which have already been itentified in this thread.Strength is 66% and I am using an Orbital 1 metre dish with a 0.3 sharp LNB and a Dreambox7000,which has probably the crappiest tuner in the history of crappy tuners.

I installed my own motorised system and I have never taken any notice of Sat footprints,if you do it right then you will reap the rewards.

Cheers
jayprince

[malsat]

If you have dect phones or wireless routers try unpluging and test the signal on MBC ive had many systems give no signal on mbc freq but once turned off phone and router in they came.

[harrydocuk]

hi guys moved my dish with the vbox east just one click on the fine movment and am getting mbc .10 in all nice one.:respect-055: thats with a
1m lenson h dish in belfast n.ireland 46- 47 on the signal meter of tm6900.

[harrydocuk]

done a full rescan but nothing else,8 mbc, al-arabiya and txt tv.
robin williams film mbc 2. a slight freeze now and again. do you get any prem footy on mbc.

[mixer]

1.1M dish and a .2db lnb + T.M 6900 im in co durham on the east coast i get 70% sig on all MBC chls (good weather) and they are good chls 4 free I have noticed if you tweek the lnb you can gain sig; ie pull it away from the dish or towards the dish or turn it

[Homer]

Are you guys able to get KBS World fta on 26E ? I'm in the Nottingham area, and have a spare 1m triax that could replace my Sky dish, leaving my other motorised dish for everything else !

Unfortunately I have a very large tree blocking 26E from the motorised dish.

[Old_Man]

I get nothing here with 1m around 55°north.

But talking about MBC...They list Buffy on MBC Action at 3am, 6am and 3pm. Is that the movie or the series?

[ian]

no problem with any of these channels on a 1.2m dish with a dreambox 7020 here in warrington,all comming in around 89% signal strength.the drop off for the dreambox is around 72% god knows why its set at that,so they are quite a bit above threshold.
cant get a sniff of fox movies though on 11843H and its supposed to be on the same beam.ian.

[red alert]

i dont think fox movies are on same beam as MBC because on lyngsat it shows MBC has its own footprint. But here in midlands i pick up all the MBC channels at about 65% signal strength but for some reason the signal disappears for about 10 seconds then comes back again.. This happens like once a hour... must be the tuner in the receiver im using (digiquest 6330) although i can view the mbc channels all day.

[notmyrealname]

about 65% signal strength but for some reason the signal disappears for about 10 seconds then comes back again

You are not alone. Normally I get the MBC channels perfectly on my 1m dish near Manchester. I get over 50 - 55% signal. But as you say the signal suddenly drops for a few seconds and then comes back to work fine till the next time. It only happens ocassionally.
regards,
nmrn

[dishdad]

I get nothing here with 1m around 55°north.

But talking about MBC...They list Buffy on MBC Action at 3am, 6am and 3pm. Is that the movie or the series?

Do not watch personally but this page should assist:-

_http://www.mbc.net/portal/site/mbc-en/menuitem.6a2c0f178707e7c8b8722f14 480210a0/?vgnextoid=3e5eb3b9e34f2110VgnVCM 1000008420010aRCRD

Select other MBC channels at the page top.

Cannot help folk with reception query as not located in uk.

[chalkster]

1 metre dish ok in Sheffield, using Technomate 6900 super receiver, you must have dish set up properly.

[red alert]

i get 70% signal strength during night and only 54 during daytime on a clear day. not sure if i need to tweak the dish a bit more or is that signal strength what i should be getting on a 1.2 m dish in midlands.

[gahan27]

Same channels on ABsat are also on Nilesat. Dunno if this helps in searching for signal.

[mark1500]

hi all

just found 26deg d/loaded channels

got mbc channels at nearly 70% on 1.2mtr with db7000

regards

mark.r

[mark1500]

soz here is the freq

119117
h
27500
3/4

mark.r

[gahan27]

Signal on MBS is strambled at times on 26E even in the area where MBC says an 80cm dish is enough. In fact I use Nilesat to see MBC.

[Old_Man]

****But talking about MBC...They list Buffy on MBC Action
****at 3am, 6am and 3pm. Is that the movie or the series?
>Do not watch personally but this page should assist:-
>_http://www.mbc.net/portal/site/mbc-en/menuitem.6a2c0f178707e7c8b8722f14 480210a0/?vgnextoid=3e5eb3b9e34f2110VgnVCM 1000008420010aRCRD

Thanks. But there it's an hour long, which would be the series. but the picture an text is for the movie. But would they show the same movie again and again?

[grin2]

im ony using an 80cm mesh dish in lincoln with quad lnb and get all mbc's at 60/63% (just checked signal strength). mbc int is scrambled , rest free to air.
never found any epl but did get rangers v celtic on 2 channels last week in arabic only.
using tm6800hd.

can get from 30west to 28east. cant get turk sat now though.

[red alert]

Just tweaked the dish a bit more and get 75% constant signal on MBC channels but still it gives no signal every hour for 10 seconds, dont think there is a fix for that.

[wod]

bigger the dish the better as the larger dish will have a narrow beamwidth to avoid signal swamping from astra 2 28e