Badr 4/5/6 26.0E

[aamir007]

Hi

A friend of mine wants to recieve the Arab Sat channels on Badr 4/5/6 26.0E and he lives in Batley, which is near Leeds.

What size dish would he need?

Thanks

 

[Analoguesat]

Badr 4 - 1m should be fine. Badr 6 - forget it

Which channels is he interested in?

 

[aamir007]

Thanks, not really sure all he told me he wanted to receive Arab Sat channels (which i've found out that they're on Badr 4/5/6 26.0E) as his wife is Moroccan.

 

[satelliteman]

Badr 4 should be okay on (as mentioned) a decent 100cm. Careful alignment will be required.


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[Analoguesat]

Thanks, not really sure all he told me he wanted to receive Arab Sat channels (which i've found out that they're on Badr 4/5/6 26.0E) as his wife is Moroccan.

There are lots of Moroccan channels on Hotbird - fta.

 

[aamir007]

How many Moroccan channels are there on Hotbird and which ones? I don't slightly have a clue of which channels are Moroccan from looking at Lyngsat.

Also what size dish would that require?

Thanks

 

[Analoguesat]

Moroccan channels in Europe

-http://tinyurl.com/3rpgo3d

Hotbird is a powerful signal in the UK - a zone 2 minidish will be fine

 

[Analoguesat]

And changing the sort parameters brings up these Arabic channels on 13E

-http://en.kingofsat.net/pos-13.0E_ara.php




Book mark this page:

-http://en.kingofsat.net/search.php

And have a play with it - its an incredibly useful page to get to know how to use

 

[aamir007]

I owe you one AnalogueSat saved my friend a lot of money, ended up installing a mini-dish on Hotbird and had issues at first only getting European channels but then after looking at what transponders i needed from the site you gave me (the site saved my ass )and looking at which i was getting i had the installer move it till i got the transponders i needed.

Since he has 2 dishes (28.2e and 13.0e) and wants to use them on the same box will a DiSEqC switch let him switch between the satellites without swapping the cable around. Also is there any specific configuration he needs to do, he's using a Openbox S10.

 

[Captain Jack]

Not familiar with Openbox but any old DiSEqC switch will work.

 

[Analoguesat]

Great to hear you got your friend up and running aamir007. Thanks for letting us know.

The disecq switch will work fine as long a the Openbox supports it - Im not familiar with that make.

Put one dish on port A, the other onto port B, then configure the tuning on the box. Might be worth putting a 4 way diseq switch up - then if the install needs adding to at some point you dont have top pull all the cabling apart again!

 

[aamir007]

Thanks, i'll order a diseqc swtch then, i thought it'd work just wanted conformation before buying one.

An Openbox is a knock-off Chinese HD box that runs CCcam and NewCamd and i think MGCamd too. There horrible boxes interference wise and i hate them but their dirt cheap so lots of people buy them, they only cost £60-£100.

 

[fergyc]

Yeah, Openboxes support switches and motors

 

[aamir007]

@fergyc do you know how to set it up? I'm trying to do it on a S10 but it won't do i've set the ports accordingly but only one satellite works at a time when i switch to a channel on 28.2e that'll work (but only a few of them which was a bit weird since they normally work)but a 13.0e channel won't work and then if change the settings a 13.0e channel will work but no a 28.2e channel will work.