Help Spanish set up complete beginner

[wallyboy]

Hello to all you SAT savvy experts i hope you can advise me.
I have an installation that is set up to receive German TV and also we get CNN. Picture of dish which might be 0.6 in size with single LNB of unknown quality. See pic.
Location is on Costa Blanca south of Alicante. Dish has clear veiw to South.
What do I need to catch English TV, free to air ,plus anything else thats going.
Ive tried re tuning the existing receiver but no go.

Can you help.
I want to do this myself if possible, the local suppliers want nearly sky money to provide a sign up to monthly contract.
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[Analoguesat]

Your dish is probably pointing at the cluster of satellites located at 19E. The UK channels require a dish aligned onto the cluster at 28E.

Do you want BBC / ITV & Film 4? If so you are going to have to invest in a bigger dish. A lot bigger - 2.4m in your area!

If you can do without the channels carried on Astra 2D then you should get a reasonable selection using your smaller dish.

[Robbo]

Hi wallyboy,

You may be able to pick up the Eurobird 1 channels with your dish.

Here is the footprints for it and the channels.

Eurobird 1 at 28.5°E - LyngSat Maps
Eurobird 1 at 28.5°E - LyngSat Maps

Eurobird 1 at 28.5°E - LyngSat

The FTA ones have an F in column 5

You may be able to pick up some of the others at 28E as well (not 2D)
Eurobird 1 & Astra 2A/2B/2C/2D at 28.2°E - LyngSat

you can check the footprints on those as well on the same site.

You might need a slightly bigger dish, like 1m, the footprints are a rough guide.

For the Sky channels you will obviously need a Sky subscription and possibly a sky digibox unless you go down the Dreambox or similar route.

Either way you will need to swivel your dish round to the left by about 10 degrees and down a bit ( from behind)

Robbo

[Billet]

Hi all,

I was interested in the comment in the last reply which read "For the Sky channels you will obviously need a Sky subscription and possibly a sky digibox unless you go down the Dreambox or similar route".

I understand the reference to Sky Digibox but what does the reference to the Dreambox mean,

Regards

[Analoguesat]

A dreambox with the CCCam emulator will quite happily read current sky uk cards - and pass the stay alive signals to it as well.

You get what the card is authorised for - no freebies.

[Billet]

Thanks for the reply, I have so much to learn!!

Regards

[wallyboy]

hi everyone thanks for all the advice and pointers, i will see if i can do something with it over the weekend. I certainly cant imagine a 2.4 dish I think it would pull the house down.
At the moment just to get anything english while were out there would be good.
I have an old pace? digibox over there and an old card which has not been active for ages, will this work? Or do i need to get a new freeview card, is the direction for picking up sky the same Astra2.
Thanks Wallyboy

[Analoguesat]

The card should reactivate eventually and give you C4 C5 5US 5Life Sultana Sports News and any timeshifts. Unless it has been cancelled by sky in which case it will never reactivate.

[Robbo]

As long as the card looks something like the picture below, you have a chance, if it is older than 2003, it won't work.