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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 10012" data-attributes="member: 174998">Also note: the only regular Ku-band signals on the European spot beam disappeared a few months ago (they included Showtime, and later (briefly) Fox-News &amp; part of the Star service).So unless you happen to catch a feed, you won't have anything there to pick up however big your dish.Even the old Showtime ku-band transmissions were only receivable on&nbsp; the Vertical transponders (same as Nilesat - the Horizontally polarised signals are much weaker in Europe). But for ther vertical ones, a 90cm dish would indeed have sufficed.In fact, there used to be a ku-band analogue signal there too - Simayeh Somethingorother. But I think that's gone now too. For that, you needed a fairly hefty dish (1.2-1.5m).Of course, there still is a lot of C-band on that satellite(including Multichoice) but for that you need a dish of upwards of 2m. 2old</blockquote>

[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 10012, member: 174998"] Also note: the only regular Ku-band signals on the European spot beam disappeared a few months ago (they included Showtime, and later (briefly) Fox-News & part of the Star service). So unless you happen to catch a feed, you won't have anything there to pick up however big your dish. Even the old Showtime ku-band transmissions were only receivable on the Vertical transponders (same as Nilesat - the Horizontally polarised signals are much weaker in Europe). But for ther vertical ones, a 90cm dish would indeed have sufficed. In fact, there used to be a ku-band analogue signal there too - Simayeh Somethingorother. But I think that's gone now too. For that, you needed a fairly hefty dish (1.2-1.5m). Of course, there still is a lot of C-band on that satellite(including Multichoice) but for that you need a dish of upwards of 2m. 2old [/QUOTE]

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