Recent content by Steve Stras

Josh In fact BEIN sport cover some championship games, for example they are covering Middleborough v Watford next Saturday. This channel is widely available in France, you can pick it up via TNT, cable, via your ISP or by satellite from Hotbird. It's fairly cheap at €11 per month with no minimum...

Guys, thanks for all the suggestions. I will go back to the UK next month so I will have a think about what to do but it seems I'll have to get a larger dish and and paint it (or paint the wall behind it !) I may also try putting something at ground level in the garden and then surrounding with...

Thanks Michka, I'll have a look at those for some ideas

Ok, so i've misunderstood, basically anything with the LNB arm at the bottom is offset, which is nearly everything. I'll try with the Gibertini and see what happens, maybe the extra 20% will be enough. The Total TV receivers seem quite poor quality, they hang a lot and require reboots all the...

Hello everyone I have a question regarding offset dishes. While I was in the UK over Christmas I installed a dish and decoder for my dad so he can watch saturday afternoon football, the system is Total TV pointing at Eutelsat W3C. My mother is particuler sensitive (difficult) about large sat...

ASK Have a look at the 2F reception map which Analoguesat has very kindly put together, the web address is in his autosignature. I don't see any entries of successful reception of 2F in western Norway. The Satlink is fine with weaker signals, in fact that's probably when it's most useful to...

ASK I bought the satlink WS6918P a couple of months ago (you can see the related thread a bit further down in this section) and I'm quite happy with the unit. It allows you to identify which satellite you've found which I think is important at the lower end of the price range. For aligninment it...

I think we were due a result in the Rugby ! We have a cricket club here in Strasbourg, though we play in Kehl which is just over the border in Germany. I would describe us more as social sportsmen, which bascially means none of us really have any talent. Though we do have a bar within close...

That's a fair point about the cricket, I've never found sat coverage other than Sky and highligts on FTA. I normally watch on a stream, last weekend I was up at 4.30 each morning for the India test. My other half (who's not a Brit) is genuinely mystified, like most of the French population, by...

I agree with Analoguesat when he says that anyone who feels they are not obtaining value for money from Sky is free not to subscribe. I live in quite a big expat community and I don't know one single person who subscribes to Sky. The general feeling is that Sky do not offer value for money...

Recent history has shown the Albanians and Serbs find it difficult to share:)

It's very strange, my Total TV box is still picking up SD Eurosport from 16 but not the HD versions. I have another Total TV box and subscription which only has a single LNB input and is just pointing at Eutelsat 16, this has now lost the Eurosport HD channels, they were there a few months ago...

Tenerife TV Just bear in mind the information has come from an admin person within SES, it doesn't mean it's actually correct. We all hear things at work and people draw conclusions based upon incomplete information, this later becomes 'fact' in the office. I work in a technical environment and...

Our commercial guy called me back and said "2f is on station, testing complete and is fully operational" This is also on their internal intranet site. All enquiries are given this standard response. One of his colleagues said there is a delay and it relates to a "DTH platform issue" whatever...

Tivu We use SES for some of our communication solutions in the Transcaucasus, I called our commercial guy here in France and he knows nothing about the movement of 2f (he's basically a salesman) but he promised to find out and give me a call back later today.