TV Channel Surfing - Hotbird @ 13°E (Part 1)

Free to air TV channel surfing in a random order at the Hotbird satellite at 13°E. This was a Saturday afternoon on 2nd April 2011. Equipment used was Fortec Star FS-4000 receiver and 80cm satellite dish in Billingham, NE England. Packages at 13°E:

Cyfrowy Polsat
Sky Italia
Bis
American Forces Network
N
Nova
Orange Polska
Cyfra+
Telewizja na karte
Mediaset

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• hotbird
• 13°e
• 13
• east
• satellite
• free
• to
• air
• fta

[CanalJackB]

@wks107tdv123 no problem :)

[wks107tdv123]

@CanalJackB ok thanks for the help mate.

[CanalJackB]

@wks107tdv123 free premiership football - nope, they are broadcast on Nova Sports and Sky Sport Italia which is encrypted, you might get something on Eurosport DE or Sport1 DE over on 19.2e FTA. For 13e the elevation has to be about 26 degrees, go to the dishpointer website and you can see all the details there e.g. elevation, just type in your location and select the satellite :)

[wks107tdv123]

@CanalJackB ok thanks mate. 1 more question. i know how to move it around to the angle but will i need to lower or higher the posistion of the dish to get it spot on or will it make much difference?

[CanalJackB]

@wks107tdv123 13 East will work with a 60cm dish, yes, and it will work through a Sky box with "Other channels" but it will be very slow, and probably crash and you can only store up to 50 channels, so yes it will work but I'd get another receiver, like the Fortec FS-4000 which was used in this video

[wks107tdv123]

@CanalJackB also do you get any free premiership football or anything like on any of the fta channels?

[wks107tdv123]

@CanalJackB would i able to get most of these with a 60cm & norman sky box?

[CanalJackB]

@wks107tdv123 When this video was recorded I had a Fortec Star 80cm black, but I recently upgraded to a Triax TD88 (94cm) dish white

[wks107tdv123]

what size dish do you have?