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MBC 26e in UK?
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Good channel mbc groub mbc 2 and mbc action and mbc max for movies English
in 21.6E only ...channel mbc1 and mbc masr this not important and broadcast series Drama arabic and Egybtian series not English
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You not liked mbc Persian ؟؟
broadcast movies and programme american check for tp
Better than nothing
You not liked mbc Persian ؟؟
broadcast movies and programme american check for tp
Better than nothing
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Hey @samir mokhtari
The original post was to help someone on another forum watch mbc channels after he had seen those channels after being on holiday. This thread seems popular and has some very good information about channels that are often not easy to find in the uk. Thank you so much for all the information you have contributed.
Those channels on 52e i shall take a look at though as I know I can get turkmenistan sport.I will check later today or tomorrow, subject to reception on a half decent size dish.
From today's scan I am locking two MBC frequencies so far from the cluster of satellites I have checked around 26 East.
I did not check Badr 4 for any MBC frequencies.
Location, Surrey UK
Badr 6 at 26.03E, 11862V, SR27500, FEC of 3/4 (5.3dB)
Badr 5 at 25.99E, 12284V, SR27500, FEC of 5/6 (7.4dB)
Screenshots attached below
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Not really, all I do is to take time to get dishes mounted correctly, use decent quality cabling and have adjustment scope on them to get fine adjustment for Azimuth and Elevation.
Also bear in mind that the southern part of the UK is more favourable for reception of some of these beams.
The dish I used to take those screen shots has resolution adjustment of around 0.06 degrees on Azimuth and around 0.02 degrees on Elevation. It allows for accurate fine tuning on the hard to get satellites.
A v-box with a 36V motor will probably get you reasonably close to those levels on Azimuth as it generally gets to about 0.08 to 0.09 degrees resolution with 11 to 12 clicks per degree.
To be honest though, a 0.1 degree variance on Azimuth often only amounts to fractions of a dB. However, in some cases, a couple of tenths of a dB gets you over the line for a signal lock.
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What dish size was it?
2.0 metre.
Correctly setup for Az, El and Skew.
However, something has changed with some of the footprint beams from these satellites around 26E.
A year or two ago I was getting quite a bit more signal level using the same equipment, levels have possibly dropped by 1.5dB to 2.0dB.
I would need to run a few checks to confirm the extent of the signal level reduction.
Also, the nearer you are to water and coastline also helps to improve the signal.
It shows how much the signal level improves the more south you get.
Another poster explained this to me. Something to do with the vast surface area
of the sea and not being in a densely populated area with trees and other obstructions.
The more reduced chance of interference from 5G towers, WiFi and other electronic devices is possibly the reason for better reception where the line of sight is over a sea.
A land locked location with clear line of site to a satellite in a densely populated area can still suffer from interference from other microwave sources.
So thus far....signal reception on 26E is possible with a 2m dish in Yorkshire and a 1.1m dish in the Channel Islands.
Nothing is ever linear, but I wonder then if it's possible to get 26E signals with a 1.4m/1.5m/1.6m dish in the London/South East/Hertfordshire area?
Who has a 2.0m dish in Yorkshire?
I have a 2.0m dish and am located in Surrey.
It depends on which satellite from the cluster at 26E is being scanned, there are four Badr satellites.
Badr 4 is an very easy catch for a 1.5m dish here in Surrey, I have a 1.5m and it gets Badr 4 no problem.
Anyone who cannot lock frequencies from Badr 4 with a 1.4m dish in the London/South East/Hertfordshire area should give up the game.
Badr 7 is a bitch, I have never locked a signal from it yet and I have blasted it with some serious ordanance.
Badr 5 and Badr 6 are OK here in Surrey but it depends which frequencies, some are lockable, others are not.
Ahhh Moonbase, I likely got a little confused and thought another poster based in Yorkshire had used a 2m dish
to get 26E signals.
My mistake my friend.
Barney in Ireland has a 2.0m dish but I think he is too far North and West to get reasonable reception?
Well, maybe if Barney reads this thread he might try a quick test and point his dish at 26E just to see
what the signal reception is like. As long as It's motorised, as if it's fixed it would be too much to ask
and likely inconvenient for him to adjust it.