digitalb reception in southwest ireland

[greyjulie]

I am thinking of suscribing to digitalb, I live in the southwest tip of Ireland, so I need a far bigger dish here as the footprint of most sats is weaker here, what size dish would I need to get very good reception here? I live in an exposed hill side and suffer from bad reception in windy weather!

[jonniebgood1]

I would say that the triax 1.1m dish you have listed would be more than adequate for digitalb even in south west. I get digitalb on 85cm dish more northern part of rep. ireland although picture goes in bad weather. If your site is exposed it would need the dish to be secured against movement more than a typical site.

[fearona]

Good advise mate.

[luggie]

guys i live in the athlone area ireland midlands and just have enough signal witha 1.1 metre dish for digital albania. it should be better but i have tried everything changing lnb aligning dish again. my dish is tracking all sats so is good. It is a technomate dish maybe it is the make of my dish. So be carful what you buy i am getting 69 signal. Not sure if this is enough as i do not have a digital alb card.

[kgb1808]

guys i live in the athlone area ireland midlands and just have enough signal witha 1.1 metre dish for digital albania. it should be better but i have tried everything changing lnb aligning dish again. my dish is tracking all sats so is good. It is a technomate dish maybe it is the make of my dish. So be carful what you buy i am getting 69 signal. Not sure if this is enough as i do not have a digital alb card.

69% should pull it in on the TM1500 but may break up in bad weather.

Try turning your LNB from side to side a bit , also moving forward or backwards as this can gain a few extra %.

[kkontour]

Im in the sligo Area,
I get 76% in clear weather and it will break up if it goes below 69% on a TM1500+Super. It does take very bad weather or wind to break it up.
I have a 88cm Dish.

[wod]

a 1.1m dish should be more than enough for 16east, regarding the reception in windy weather you might be better to swap the motor for the triax polar mount and actuator motor, this is much better in windy weather stops the dish from moving about

[thomasking]

i live in galway in country i have 2.0m dish and quality 89% very good i put dish in back garden undergound side shed make stop wind and rain we have never have problem for my technomate 1500 ci for hotbird astra east 16 sirus 5e turk 42e best singal every we have

[kurtusangle]

1.2M Fortec star dish and dreambox600s and Technomate 5200 d in Donegal area north west eire always solid signal 90% motorised on a technomate motor and high gain viacom Lnb pics are surperb on my new 30"inch HD tv .....28e,19.2e,16e,13e,10e,9e,7e,5e,1W,5w,8w,12.5w ,15w,22w,24.5w,30w Arc on my dish .:coolthumb:beak::beak::biggrin::biggrin::happy:
best move ive ever made was change from 1.1m Triax to 1.2m Fortec star.
Merry crimbo :xmt:
regards,
kurt

[spitfire]

why did u say that kurt ,,just bought an triax 1.1 m /////ballex//

[kurtusangle]

why did u say that kurt ,,just bought an triax 1.1 m /////ballex//you'll still get very good quality pics on 16e Eutelsat w2 on your 1.1m dish aswell spitfire :coolthumb:wink::beak::beak::clapping:

[joe6915]

Hi
I am living in waterford ireland and have good signal with 1m gilbertini.
Hope this helps

[Dallyis]

In sw Ireland I use triax 1.1 and get digitalb no problem

[tjspock]

i live in kerry as southwest as you can get!!! i have a 1m dish tm 1500 and digialb can be recieved loud and clear.:clapping:

[aidanboland]

hey guys, I'm in Nenagh Co Tipperary and I get it fine with a 90cm dish, tho it is hazy in bad weather.

[snaps]

Galway city. 1.1m gilbertini with titanium .2lnb. Without putting the kiss of death on it, never had a problem with signal for digitalb. even during bad weather signal been constant. My motorised dish is as low as i dare put it in back garden to protect from wind. My LNB is slightly skewed (5 oclock position) for reception of MBC channels on 26east. All other birds come in nice and strong.

P.s Interesting thread for us Irish members.

[luggie]

how can i improve my signal of 69%? ok my sharp lnb may not be the best but if you look in the lnb section of the forum william tested this lnb againts most of the others and it performed about the same? so what can change my lnb to a???? or change my dish from a technomate dish. would my dish be the problem any other technomate dish users in ireland getting a better signal than 69% on digital albainia. It is not alignment see all sats in the sky tried adjusting before but i seem to at the peak on adjustments. advice please

[james feeney]

Kurt where can I get a 1.2cm dish , I live in North Leitrim Rep of Ire, signal not great on my 80 cm dish for alsat i am looking nothing bigger than 80 except in UK
James

[^^^DARKMAN^^^]

font change eny dish please another 2 months Digitalb will change Fec with help of Eutelsat will do difent calculations like that the signal will be back and better. just wait please.

[Dallyis]

font change eny dish please another 2 months Digitalb will change Fec with help of Eutelsat will do difent calculations like that the signal will be back and better. just wait please.

That sounds like good news:coolthumb

[adilive]

font change eny dish please another 2 months Digitalb will change Fec with help of Eutelsat will do difent calculations like that the signal will be back and better. just wait please.
Fantastic news thanks DARKMAN
will just be the freqs they will change or the transponders too?

[ogankav]

I am thinking of suscribing to digitalb, I live in the southwest tip of Ireland, so I need a far bigger dish here as the footprint of most sats is weaker here, what size dish would I need to get very good reception here? I live in an exposed hill side and suffer from bad reception in windy weather!
i live in waterford and i have a 1.1m dish and i dont have any probs