davidinspain

I've found one in my garage with a Sky plus box and card will it pick anything up from Gandia?

amideislas

Do you have a globe?

Where are we?

Where is Canada?

Now draw a line directly south to the equator from both positions.

Is the satellite covering canada even visible from Spain?

The Guy

Yes.
It will pick up something.
No BBC ITV C4 or Fives.
Sky News, S4C, BBC Radio 1-4, BBC Streams, a few religiuos channels, and not a lot else for free.
Perhaps about 30-40% of the Sky pay channels channels.

No idea what Canada has to do with anything?

lynnxa

Canada

VFR

Should have gone to specsavers (as they say)
It was Gandia !, not Canada.

amideislas

You're right. My apologies.

Where the hell is Gandia?

lynnxa

just up the road from me

on the other side of the mountain, though

The Guy

and about 5 minutes away from me!!!

(its 70kms south of Valencia)

davidinspain

Thanks for the info G do the streams include BBC World News? that was all I was after really it's on Safor TV for a couple of hours in the morning and now I'm hooked............Canada

Domino

as The Guy says "it will pick up something"

I believe in the rain principle - if you put out a funnel with a big mouth area it will pick up alot of rain, if it is only a small mouth area then it will pick up much less rain.

to some extent satellite dishes are the same the larger the area the more signals they pick up, also they pick up stronger signals and become more tunable for reception.

rgds

big wheels

You should be able to pick up at least one of these with your 60cm dish and box. No card needed

BBC World News Free to air.

Hot Bird 13°E 12597.00 V 27500 3/4

19.2°E Astra 1L 11597.00 V 22000 5/6

26.0°E Badr 4 12073.00 H 27500 3/4

davidinspain

Thanks for the info it'll be worth breaking my neck on the roof

Domino

NO NIGEL I don't think you should go up there.....................