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<blockquote data-quote="timo_w2s" data-source="post: 931788" data-attributes="member: 196043">Yep, I agree with this. I've posted this pic on other threads but I'll post it here again as it shows quite nicely why 2G Europe beam is a bit of a disappointment in the UK. You can see how the 2E and 2F beams are centred over the UK and how 2G's 45cm dish limit only covers England and Wales.[ATTACH=full]79703[/ATTACH]To be honest I'm also surprised that the 2G Europe beam was used for channels on Sky or Freesat.I do wonder if at some point these transponders might switch to UK spots at some point in the future, perhaps after the channels on these beams have had a chance to make other arrangements if they need to broadcast to Europe too (although you'd think they'd have had enough time to sort that out - eg. some Eutelsat 28A channels that went to 2F UK spots at the start of the month are now also on a wide beam via Astra 4A at 5E) or maybe even that SES could shift the Europe beam slightly further north like they did with Astra 1N at 19E after complaints that the European beam didn't reach Scandinavia. But you'd think the easiest thing would be to just switch to 2G UK spots and be done with it if these satellites are as flexible as SES make them out to be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="timo_w2s, post: 931788, member: 196043"] Yep, I agree with this. I've posted this pic on other threads but I'll post it here again as it shows quite nicely why 2G Europe beam is a bit of a disappointment in the UK. You can see how the 2E and 2F beams are centred over the UK and how 2G's 45cm dish limit only covers England and Wales. [ATTACH=full]79703[/ATTACH] To be honest I'm also surprised that the 2G Europe beam was used for channels on Sky or Freesat. I do wonder if at some point these transponders might switch to UK spots at some point in the future, perhaps after the channels on these beams have had a chance to make other arrangements if they need to broadcast to Europe too (although you'd think they'd have had enough time to sort that out - eg. some Eutelsat 28A channels that went to 2F UK spots at the start of the month are now also on a wide beam via Astra 4A at 5E) or maybe even that SES could shift the Europe beam slightly further north like they did with Astra 1N at 19E after complaints that the European beam didn't reach Scandinavia. But you'd think the easiest thing would be to just switch to 2G UK spots and be done with it if these satellites are as flexible as SES make them out to be. [/QUOTE]

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