saorsat up and running

[Manic01]

Very tight footprint.

[Borgy100]

Very hard to get outside of Ireland. They are using Spot beam and KAband LNB reuired. In Ireland it is advised you would need an 80cm dish to pick up the signal.

The national broadcasters using Saorsat (RTE, TV3 etc) do not have rights to broadcast their programming outside the State, hence the decision to use spt beams.

In all truth it is being used to give those in rural areas the chance to pick up national channels once analogue is switched off. Crap infrastructure here in terms of DTT coverage!

In total there will only be around half a dozen channels broadcast anyway.

[Manic01]

Its been picked up in devon, not sure what size dish.
Google it to find out more.

[mtv1]

The solid patches are official main service areas.

The first magenta ring indicate contour of what a published service area might include with a still "normal" size dish (80cm to 110cm) The outer magenta ring is low signal needing very large dish (1.2m to 2.5m) as it overlaps same settings of French Calais spot and East Scotland spot. It must be low enough to cause no interference. The spots come from the SAME satellite, so along a line at tangent (purple line) to the two lime circles gets equal signal from both feeds (spots) no matter how big the dish is. Because it's the same satellite. In fact of the four dishes on the satellite, it's two separate offset feeds on the same dish. You can only separate the signals enough, reliably, by moving within the Irish or French Blue circles (with Lime fill) along the line between their centres. If the symbol rates, power and drop off of signal from France is enough that Co.Down coast to Ballycastle in Co. Antrim gets only just low enough interference to work on Irish Spot, then the red line marks the edge of possible Irish reception, but only if the French Spot has a similar carrier. As the symbol rate is lowered and frequency shifted, then the Red and Purple lines move toward the French spot. Conclusion is that if there is no interfering French signal a large dish might work as far as UK Midlands. If there is a French Calais signal overlapping the Saorsat carriers, then no matter what size dish, the coverage is limited to the Welsh coast. See satbeams

[mdt]

surely it would have been easier to use a european bird and use a secure encryption like via4/n3/ir3/seca3 and have a say 50euro a year cost for the card system rental similar to hd+ in germany. if all the sats go this way our hobby will be dead in 15-20 years,regards mdt

[andymc1s]

this guy has some ka lnbs for sale
Ka Band Twin LNB ( ideal for Saorsat )

[maguse]

can I get soar view through 28.2 or 19.2? Sorry I m a newbie

[mdt]

can I get soar view through 28.2 or 19.2? Sorry I m a newbie

no its at 9e in Ka band with a very small multi-beam footprint.you could get RTE1/2, TG4 ect if you have the right friend from 28.2/5 east and a lan capable box connected to your broadband router. regards mdt