Trying to pick up arabsat on badr 3/4 but not working

[sdemon]

hi guys just wanna say cheers for all the info iv bin reading here but i got a major problem that no1 seems to b able to answer

I got a 1.1 m dish motorised wihich is situation in my garden on the grass. Got a strong 4622x receiver and wen connected i was unable to pik up any arabsat channels. An of the arabic channels such as mbc, mbc 2 mbc4 mbc action fox movies rotana, it dusnt pik up. All i get are sky channels which are encrypted- sky sports 1 etc.

Spoke to sum satellite engineer and he said it was my receiver, which i think is rubbish.

1) either my satellite is not big enough
2) either the dish is not positioned correctly
3) or im never guna get these channels- but i dont c y not if ppl can receive mbc on a 90cm satellite

I can pik up hotbird, astra 2, turksat, no problem

can ne1 help me plsssssssse.



many thanks

[Robbo]

Hi,

What dish do you have?
Where are you located?

If you are picking up Sky encrypted channels, it means that the dish is too far east by a smidgin, try moving it west a bit with the motor.

[sdemon]

thanks for the reply

i cant rem the name of it really, if u list sum i might be able to pik it out.

Im located in se london. near sidcup, so kinda like kent.

[bigtee]

Try the trick of setting your Arabsat to say 25.6e instead of 26e - such that Arabsat is less susceptible to swamping from 'Sky' at 28e.

[Analoguesat]

Originally Posted by sdemon

hi guys just wanna say cheers for all the info iv bin reading here but i got a major problem that no1 seems to b able to answer

I got a 1.1 m dish motorised wihich is situation in my garden on the grass. Got a strong 4622x receiver and wen connected i was unable to pik up any arabsat channels. An of the arabic channels such as mbc, mbc 2 mbc4 mbc action fox movies rotana, it dusnt pik up. All i get are sky channels which are encrypted- sky sports 1 etc.

Spoke to sum satellite engineer and he said it was my receiver, which i think is rubbish.

1) either my satellite is not big enough
2) either the dish is not positioned correctly
3) or im never guna get these channels- but i dont c y not if ppl can receive mbc on a 90cm satellite

I can pik up hotbird, astra 2, turksat, no problem

can ne1 help me plsssssssse.



many thanks

Please dont write in txt - it makes the post almost impossible to read for us older members.

90cm dish is too small for the MBC channels if you are in the UK.

[Analoguesat]

BTW - a lot of the interesting stuff has been moved Badr 6 which is impossible to receive in the UK wthout a VERY big dish.

[Robbo]

Originally Posted by sdemon

thanks for the reply

i cant rem the name of it really, if u list sum i might be able to pik it out.

Im located in se london. near sidcup, so kinda like kent.

I used to get MBc on 26E on a 90cm just 20 mins down the road from you (East) on a Fortec Star 90cm fom Maplins. If the dish is a Triax TD110, I must admit, for some reason the dish struggles with MBC on 26E. The 1m Orbital dish I also have does better.

[kegnkiwi]

Well I'm well north of you up in west yorkshire. I have a funke 1m dish and if I peak my dish I can watch the mbc channels with a db800. I was watching on friday night and apart from the hight winds flexing the dish when it was gusting I had a cracking picture.

[sdemon]

hmm. ic. Analoguesat, i have a 1.1m dish, and Robbo seems to pik up the channels and he lives 20 mins from me.

i will try changing to 25.6 degrees.

O forgot to mention that my sky dish is quite close to my dish. Both on the grass in the garden.

Could this affect it?


many thanks for ur replies

[Analoguesat]

Ah I misread your post due to the appalling spelling in it