SKY DISH

[TINTORETO]

I have a SKY (Mexico) DISH at home. With this dish and a FTA receiver can I get programming (not Sky programming) from the Intelsat 16 satellite or the other satellite @ 58 degrees West? Please advise as I am very curious about this. Thank you!

 

[phlatwound]

What channels are you looking to get at 58 West?

If the dish is big enough, and with a proper LNBF, you may be able to get some Ku signals.

 

[jogon64]

Your size dish will only bring in the ku side of 58w, providing you are near Mexico. Nothing ITC though. Just a few promo channels. At least sd which is what I can check.

Cband is another story but I haven´t been there for quite a while.

 

[DJdish]

I have a SKY (Mexico) DISH at home. With this dish and a FTA receiver can I get programming (not Sky programming) from the Intelsat 16 satellite or the other satellite @ 58 degrees West? Please advise as I am very curious about this. Thank you!

I know most of the Sky dishes are 3 footers (90 cmts) but I have seen some 4 ftrs (1,20 mts) depending on your exact location and maybe using a C band lnb maybe you could get some C band from Intelsat 9 using the larger Sky dish

 

[jogon64]

I know most of the Sky dishes are 3 footers (90 cmts)

Most sky dishes are actually 76 cm. There might be larger ones, but I´ve never seen one at least here in northern Mexico. No need for them here. A 76 cm can get you well over 90%Q.

I recall a couple years ago when I aimed my 1.5 m. offset, cband, conical ring at 58w, it brought in a disappointing 50% or less of tps on lyngsat at that time. I quickly moved away to 99w.

I´m not sure a 1.2 m. could do much better, but maybe there have been tp changes for the better since then.

Where are you at tintoreto?