Comments on: Questions About Cycling on Satellite

By: Vee

Vee — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:49:53 +0000

to get eurosport international in english language, the analogue sat at 19deg astra 1 i recall has it, I have an old amstrad rx and put an lnb on it from a digital rx like sky and hey presto it works..

By: kate

kate — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:15:58 +0000

Re the above: sorry, you’re M. J. Ray, not Dave! Many apologies.

By: kate

kate — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:14:30 +0000

Thanks for the advice, Dave – will give that a try!

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:24:46 +0000

Re #9 - thanks for the answer. I remember now the installer said it could be adapted for digital if the time came. I just pray analogue keeps going for as long as possible; I like the picture & there’s great pleasure to be had in finding a small race on a local German channel! Plus International ES has been pretty good cycling-wise this season IMO.

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:23:59 +0000

@Dave - yes, you should be able to get other non-German channels by hooking up a digital receiver if your dish has a universal LNB. CNBC is the only other non-German analogue channel in the list on http://www.analoguesat.co.uk/

@kate - I would have expected a 60cm dish to pick up 13e there, but it will be much fiddlier than 19e, but you could buy one of those whistling signal meters from Maplins. Note that the satellites appear to be in an arc over the horizon, so you’ll need to tilt the dish a little as well as swinging it round (which is why USALS motor poles are not vertical). From memory, I think you need to tilt forwards, but I wouldn’t swear to it.

By: kate

kate — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:35:56 +0000

For the Tour last year, I bought a 60cm dish and receiver (from Maplins) to watch the cycling on Eurosport. Since I only get it in German, I assume I have a digital package. I invested in a German dictionary and grammar guide, and am enjoying learning the language!
I did try swinging the dish around, but do not seem able to pick up 13e signal – much as I’d like to. Does anyone know if I need a bigger dish? I live in south London.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:53:55 +0000

On a related theme - I get the German analogue footprint from 19e (International Eurosport + the free German channels). Can I pick up other non-German channels which are also located at ‘19e’? My system was set up by a local shop (now defunct) primarily to get Eurosport; is there ‘hidden’ stuff which I can pick up with some re-jigging?

Sorry if it’s a dumb question btw!

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:59:40 +0000

Eurosport doesn’t broadcast EPG at all, as far as I can tell. On the German broadcast at 19e, their teletext schedule pages 301-303 are usually nearly right, but they will stay with the end of a tennis match before going to a cycle race and then cut away before the podium to go to another tennis match, which is annoying. They even cut the final podium off the Giro!

Hotbird at 13e also carries the RAI Sport Piu channel which covers quite a lot of cycling, but its schedule pages are on RAI Uno’s teletext (page 518) which seems odd.

By: John Lewis

John Lewis — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:20:06 +0000

I live in Bournemouth, Hnats and recently got a free to air system (technomate TM-5600 CI USB plus motorised 80cm dish). I have been able to view the Giro on Eurosport with English commnetary via the Hotbird satellite. As usual Eurosport dumps cycling coverage for tennis or football and it isn’t always easy to find out when highlights are going to be broadcast when they do this. The EPG is pretty useless for anything other than main BBC channels.

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MJR's slef-reflections: BBC website, TV and Technology — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:47:00 +0000

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