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<blockquote data-quote="mikethebike" data-source="post: 20844" data-attributes="member: 175983">I've just joined this forum and am having similar experiences to everyone else.&nbsp; We live between Bologna and Firenze and have a 1.2 M dish, Panasonic 20, fat cable, 0.5dB LNB (I think).We've been getting ITV reasonably, i.e. it fades in the evening, better recently I must say.&nbsp; The BBC now is much worse, and it takes very little to kill the signal.&nbsp; Last night ITV was fine, BBC was useless, so either the beams differ slightly or the BBC power is reduced.&nbsp; Placing my arm across the dish kills the signal completely, so it must literally be just on the verge.&nbsp; I'm about to get a 1.8M dish (more than twice the area) since we'd have problems without the beeb and it's too patchy to be useful just now.What a crazy situation we're in (the expats that is) in that we now have to pay to buy more sensitive equipment to watch something we &quot;shouldn't&quot; be watching, instead of paying the Beeb extra to watch it legitimately!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mikethebike, post: 20844, member: 175983"] I've just joined this forum and am having similar experiences to everyone else. We live between Bologna and Firenze and have a 1.2 M dish, Panasonic 20, fat cable, 0.5dB LNB (I think). We've been getting ITV reasonably, i.e. it fades in the evening, better recently I must say. The BBC now is much worse, and it takes very little to kill the signal. Last night ITV was fine, BBC was useless, so either the beams differ slightly or the BBC power is reduced. Placing my arm across the dish kills the signal completely, so it must literally be just on the verge. I'm about to get a 1.8M dish (more than twice the area) since we'd have problems without the beeb and it's too patchy to be useful just now. What a crazy situation we're in (the expats that is) in that we now have to pay to buy more sensitive equipment to watch something we "shouldn't" be watching, instead of paying the Beeb extra to watch it legitimately! [/QUOTE]

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