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<blockquote data-quote="Deepseadata" data-source="post: 757728" data-attributes="member: 375144">Really excited to go to Turkey! You're lucky to have lived there though. The rest of the crew tells me it's a great place. We'll go to Bodrum, Istambul and surely a bunch of hard to reach spot inbetween.I don't expect to get Sky - that's why I'm worried. I'm not worried about not having sky I'm worried about not having anything!I'd take Al Jazeera.. ANYTHING in English. Just a news channel or two would be enough.I have stabilized antennas. What I usually do is pop 26E in there, look at my LAT and LON, check a calculator that tells me my AZ and EL for where we are at the time. Then the pedestal tracks and tunes itself using signal AGC.My problem is that I don't have enough experience with SAT TV to&nbsp; understand what I'm going to need to do to point it at another&nbsp; satellite now that Sky is out of the picture (nice little pun in there).It sounds like even if I find the other sat my decoders aren't going to be able to view anything... I guess I'll have to install the 22 Samsung DSB-B350W's. We don't have any cards or cams for them though.I do have a spectrum analyzer and I've already been using it to study for the day when we lose sky.So once I install the decoders. I'm assuming I'll need to program a default transponder to get an EPG.Do I need an EPG or can I just manually program the channels in there?Is it starting to look obvious that I don't know very much?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Deepseadata, post: 757728, member: 375144"] Really excited to go to Turkey! You're lucky to have lived there though. The rest of the crew tells me it's a great place. We'll go to Bodrum, Istambul and surely a bunch of hard to reach spot inbetween. I don't expect to get Sky - that's why I'm worried. I'm not worried about not having sky I'm worried about not having anything! I'd take Al Jazeera.. ANYTHING in English. Just a news channel or two would be enough. I have stabilized antennas. What I usually do is pop 26E in there, look at my LAT and LON, check a calculator that tells me my AZ and EL for where we are at the time. Then the pedestal tracks and tunes itself using signal AGC. My problem is that I don't have enough experience with SAT TV to understand what I'm going to need to do to point it at another satellite now that Sky is out of the picture (nice little pun in there). It sounds like even if I find the other sat my decoders aren't going to be able to view anything... I guess I'll have to install the 22 Samsung DSB-B350W's. We don't have any cards or cams for them though. I do have a spectrum analyzer and I've already been using it to study for the day when we lose sky. So once I install the decoders. I'm assuming I'll need to program a default transponder to get an EPG. Do I need an EPG or can I just manually program the channels in there? Is it starting to look obvious that I don't know very much? [/QUOTE]

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