freesat abroad

[nabihaht]

i'm in Malta and trying to get freeview channels as in the uk, i bought freesat receiver and installed it on a dish ,,, i could get the astra 2 and when i tuned the freesat i could finally get the tv listing with the guide but the channels don't show, it says no signal but i can still see on the bar what program is on, and when i scrolled down i could see aljazeera english only any ideas?

 

[pedro2000uk]

what receiver & what dish & lnb are you using

 

[logiciel]

Hi and welcome to the forum.
Freeview is terrestrial TV and can only be received within a few miles of each transmitter in the UK.
To advise on receiving satellite TV we need the details that pedro asked for.
Logiciel

 

[Mark uk]

You are out of the footprint (range) for UK channels and even if you could receive them you would probably need a large dish.

This picture shows the reception area.

 

[logiciel]

The reception area from which satellite?

 

[Pollensa1946]

Satbeams...
SatBeams - Satellite Coverage Maps - Sat Footprint Astra 1N / Astra 2A / Astra 2D / Astra 2F / Eutelsat 28A (E28A, Eurobird 1, Eutelsat W1R, Europesat 1) / Eutelsat 28B (Eutelsat 48B, E48B, W2M, Eutelsat W2M)
...shows all the 28E satellite footprints are outside of the range of Malta.

 

[Mark uk]

The reception area from which satellite?

Astra 2F, UK spot beam.
The most relevant one for free UK TV.

 

[pedro2000uk]

Satbeams...
SatBeams - Satellite Coverage Maps - Sat Footprint Astra 1N / Astra 2A / Astra 2D / Astra 2F / Eutelsat 28A (E28A, Eurobird 1, Eutelsat W1R, Europesat 1) / Eutelsat 28B (Eutelsat 48B, E48B, W2M, Eutelsat W2M)
...shows all the 28E satellite footprints are outside of the range of Malta.

It's not 100% set in stone, it's more a case of not taking the footprints as being exact but more an engineer's or artist's impression & then using bigger dishes, sensitive receivers/ lnbs, good installs coupled with local knowledge, but it is all a bit up in the air atm due to the recent changes.

 

[kevkbuk]

Yep, if you looked at the published foot print for the easy stuff at 26e and 7w you just wouldn't try in the UK...

 

[Pollensa1946]

It's not 100% set in stone, it's more a case of not taking the footprints as being exact but more an engineer's or artist's impression & then using bigger dishes, sensitive receivers/ lnbs, good installs coupled with local knowledge, but it is all a bit up in the air atm due to the recent changes.

True. If you look at the Canaries they are also outside of the footprint but you can get reasonable reception with a 3 metre dish. Even with that monster it breaks up frequently.

 

[pedro2000uk]

True. If you look at the Canaries they are also outside of the footprint but you can get reasonable reception with a 3 metre dish. Even with that monster it breaks up frequently.

We receive from this type of footprint ...

on 80cm/90c/1m/1.1m dishes around the UK pretty much everyday 24/7 with quite respectable rain margins but you'd think it impossible looking at the published footprints or you'd need 3-4-5m dishes looking at that.

Tight footprints like the Freesat spot beam over the UK are harder though- they're smaller & more focussed & they've worked on getting it tighter to restrict reception. We have a couple of much closer northwest Europe beams that can be harder than that MENA footprint.