Satellite TV from Spain

[culebras]

Hispasar es un satelite muy potente, pero no transmite en banda C, solo en K lineal, y es muy facil de sintonizar. Amazonas si tranmite algunos canales en banda C lineal, pero es un poquito "truequi" de agarrar, porque tiene 3 satelites pegado a el con la misma elevacion, pero yo lo puedo agarrar en Costa Rica con una antena de 120 centimetros

[RFenergy]

Thats good to hear, I will try again for 30W.

[jayelem]

Thats good to hear, I will try again for 30W.

If you're in the Rockport area , these would be your numbers.

Elevation: 26.0°
Azimuth (true): 130.6°
Azimuth (magn.): 147.3°
LNB Skew: -33.0°

Your elevation of 26.0 for Hispasat is real good , my elevation in Chicago
for the same satellite is 15.0 , and I know of others on this forum who have a
elevation of 7.0 or less and can get this , you might have to put your dish in
another location where you have no LOS problems if that's the problem because
of trees .

[jayelem]

Hola,

Tres canales en Espanol de Azteca, bueno por
La Lingua. Azteca 7, 13 y Azteca America todos de Galaxy 26 @ 93W.

Lets hope they stay in the clear.

The satellite formerly known as G10 @ 123.0 west has several Spanish affiliates from around the U.S. , I don't know if your area in Maine has access to these station , if you don't you might want to try getting this Satellite also eventhough the elevation is around 16.0 for you and you have trees creating LOS problems on the west side.

[RFenergy]

Jayelem,

Yes, as ive studied the listings on lyngsat I noticed that 123W would
be great for the Lingua Espanol Programas, pero....the trees. I moved
the dish in the yard (Ive got 3 acres, in a valley) and picked up 121W
with a solid signal. But - I am less than a degree of elevation (trees)
from being able to see 123W.

Its frustrating.

On the other horizon, the south-east wall of the valley, I have a clear
view of 30W but my Merc2 receiver doesn't show anything there. The
footprint suggests I need a bigger dish (I have a 1 meter now).

I may have located a free 2.4M dish so I hope to be on C band soon
and get 30W on Ku.

But I am satisfied with the money spent. Even now Ive got three good
TV channels in Spanish, Azteca on 93W, and also interesting stuff on
RT, Al Jazeera, NYN, and feeds. And the "frozen" talking heads are funny
when the network feeds are waiting to que them.

Fifty years ago I was a thirteen year old stringing long wire antennas in
the trees for better signals on short wave. Now the trees are blocking
the signals and the waves are very very short.

RFenergy

Mercury 2, 39" offset dish, DG-280, invacom .3db L/P, L/P 22KHz switch
ME 69.1W 44.2N (with BIG trees South and West)

[benitor]

Need some clarification if you will, living in Puerto Rico sat 119 Q was in around 79, and sat 110 was between 50 and 60. Currently sat 110 is reading high 80 and sat 119 around 40 plus. When it rains 119 goes. Can you explain more on this satuation. Thank, Benito