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blanno

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Hi all

Ive been told that to get all the EPL football matches live on viasat I would need to use a 1.8 - 3 Mtr. dish as some of the less watched team matches have a weaker signal. I note that most of the suppliers advertise the system to be fitted with a 1.1 Mtr. dish ould somebody advise / clarify the facts for me. I live in Swansea South Wales.

Any help and advise will be much appreciated

Blanno
 
Hi
To get anything off the Nordic Beam from Sirius in Swansea, I think you are going to need a very very very (very) big dish. I'm sure Canal Sport shows live matches from Thor too, though.
 
you should get it on 80cm easy m8 viasat show every epl game on viasat extra p1 pl2 pl2 etc i get it here in stoke on 80cm
 
martinuk said:
you should get it on 80cm easy m8 viasat show every epl game on viasat extra p1 pl2 pl2 etc i get it here in stoke on 80cm
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Are those on the European beam? That one is straightforward, but I really don't believe it is possible to get the Nordic Beam, so a visit to Lyngsat might prove useful to show you what's feasible and what is not, Blanno
 
AlphaOm said:
Are those on the European beam? That one is straightforward, but I really don't believe it is possible to get the Nordic Beam, so a visit to Lyngsat might prove useful to show you what's feasible and what is not, Blanno
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They are on the Nordic beam, and a dish considerably bigger than 80 cm will be needed. At a guess a minimum of 1.2m will be needed.
 
Wots on the Nordic Beam cause i get viasat extra pl2 pl2 pl3 pl4 pl5 and so an i also get other viasat hd pl to and im on 80cm dish im in stoke im talking bout 4.8e here guys viasat were all epl games are
there are some on thor1w dont get them not on 80cm
 
ahhhh Thor 5 Nordic beam no not a chance on 80cm i got mixed up with 4.8e lol
i will try with my cm 1.2 when get it up running
but the guy can use 80cm or 90cm get 4.8e full epl games on there all in english
 
Aahh I was assuming 5E - and Im surprised you get the Nordic beam on an 80 cm dish - I have problems on a 1m dish, although it does rain a lot up here!

Merest hint of drizzle or thick clouds and the Nordic beam stuff disappears.
 
martinuk said:
ahhhh Thor 5 Nordic beam no not a chance on 80cm i got mixed up with 4.8e lol
i will try with my cm 1.2 when get it up running
but the guy can use 80cm or 90cm get 4.8e full epl games on there all in english
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With all due respect, Thor 5 has a much stronger footprint in the UK than Sirius 4.8E. Perhaps 80cm is fine in Stoke for 4.8E (making the official footprint totally inaccurate), but there is absolutely no hope of that happening down in Swansea. Even 1.2m sounds on the small side, but that would definitely be the bare minimum. Thor 5 on an 80cm dish is absolutely doable, though.
 
Analoguesat said:
Aahh I was assuming 5E - and Im surprised you get the Nordic beam on an 80 cm dish - I have problems on a 1m dish, although it does rain a lot up here!

Merest hint of drizzle or thick clouds and the Nordic beam stuff disappears.
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Damn, now I'm confused. Not sure what we're talking about anymore!! :)
 
I think we can say the op is refering to viasat on 4.8e as the channels mentioned on thor are tv2 epl I think which dont show all the games.

member john896 is based in south wales so he could post whether the signal is good/weak for these channels
 
what a great responce thanks to all of you for your interesting input. It's going to be a 1.5 Mtr. dish and i've been assured by the suppliers that it'll do the trick. It's being installed on friday 5th. August so I'll keep you updated hopefully save someone else having to do all the research.

thanks again to you all
Blanno
 
blanno said:
It's being installed on friday 5th. August so I'll keep you updated hopefully save someone else having to do all the research.
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Please do! Hope you get great results!
 
blanno said:
what a great responce thanks to all of you for your interesting input. It's going to be a 1.5 Mtr. dish and i've been assured by the suppliers that it'll do the trick. It's being installed on friday 5th. August so I'll keep you updated hopefully save someone else having to do all the research.

thanks again to you all
Blanno
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If you just looking for prem league footy m8 all need is 1m dish tops for 4.8e viasat shows every 3pm game all in English
wot you trying to get with that big dish m8??? if you looking for footy m8 they gave you wrong advise 1.5m to get epl in uk lol
 
Regarding the 4.8E Viasat channels on 11747V which is on the nordic beam.

I have a 1.2m dish which picks these channels up at 81% SNR 73% AGC on a TM600 with a 50M cable run.

I am about 2 miles from the coast and can see the sea from my back bedroom window, so I am about as far east as you can get.


In heavy rain I struggle to keep a signal on these channels, and last season one of the local bars which has a 1M dish was unable to keep the signal during mid/light rain.

So from my experience a good 1.1M or 1.2M would be best here in the north east as it includes a slight rain margin. Heavy rain and you can forgot getting any reception.


A 1.5M dish in Wales should be good for all weathers. If it is a Gibertini dish then all the better :)
 
martinuk said:
ahhhh Thor 5 Nordic beam no not a chance on 80cm i got mixed up with 4.8e lol
i will try with my cm 1.2 when get it up running
but the guy can use 80cm or 90cm get 4.8e full epl games on there all in english
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Analoguesat said:
Aahh I was assuming 5E - and Im surprised you get the Nordic beam on an 80 cm dish - I have problems on a 1m dish, although it does rain a lot up here!

Merest hint of drizzle or thick clouds and the Nordic beam stuff disappears.
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The Thor Nordic Beam is also OK down here in Stone with my 80cm (Well, it is less than 10 miles away from Stoke. :D), there isn't masses of rain margin though - YLE for example goes quite quickly.

No chance of the Astra 4A Nordic Beam though with that size; I can confirm!
 
shamone said:
Regarding the 4.8E Viasat channels on 11747V which is on the nordic beam.

I have a 1.2m dish which picks these channels up at 81% SNR 73% AGC on a TM600 with a 50M cable run.

I am about 2 miles from the coast and can see the sea from my back bedroom window, so I am about as far east as you can get.


In heavy rain I struggle to keep a signal on these channels, and last season one of the local bars which has a 1M dish was unable to keep the signal during mid/light rain.

So from my experience a good 1.1M or 1.2M would be best here in the north east as it includes a slight rain margin. Heavy rain and you can forgot getting any reception.


A 1.5M dish in Wales should be good for all weathers. If it is a Gibertini dish then all the better :)
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strange that on 11747 V
tp B2 i get ok signal levels and holds out in rain and snow is it further south you go better signal ?
 
Blanno, did you get the dish installed mate?

Lost all the Nordic channels today due to the heavy rain. May be this dish at fault if others manage to hold signal during the rain.

A nice Gibby 1.25m should do the trick :)
 
Hi Blanno,

Just wondering how the picture is? We just had a system installed Friday too (probably same company)

Was wondering how your picture held out in the rain on Sunday?

Where else has it installed then?
 
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