| Aachen |
| Receiver not given |
| 80 cm Dish |
| LNB Not given |
| Signal strength 50/60 (10.891), 80/90 for 10.832 & 10906. |
| Abensberg - about 100km North of Munich |
| Grundig 200GDS |
| 100cm Gilbertini offset dish |
| LNB Not given |
| Posted 07-06-03 |
| Thought you might like to know that the 100cm Gilbertini offset dish and a new LNB gives me perfect reception on all channels. I have 90 percent signal and quality. After a little gnashing of teeth and a few wails normal service was resumed. |
| E.C. |
| Armsheim (25km south of Mainz) |
| Radix epsilon 2AD Receiver |
| Kathrein CAS 90 dish |
| LNB UAS 484 Quattro |
| Posted 04-08-04 |
| Signal measurement says 10.480 snr no fish in the red bits! It took me a while to find it but I did it by hand. It's just a tick further east than 19.3 and a shade lower. If you have patience you'll get it ! Good reception even in rain. Thanks for the help in the forum. |
| James |
| Augsburg |
| Grundig GDS 200 |
| Elliptical 100cm x 120cm dish |
| LNB 0.3dB Invacom Twin |
| Posted 12-0-03 |
| Lost the BBC channels like most of us (80cm dish), although I feel that perhaps with professional alignment it might have been possible to get them back with no (or only a small) dish-size upgrade. Instead I went for an Elliptical 100cm x 120cm dish and 0.3dB Invacom Twin LNB. I now have 100%/80% signal strength/quality and that's without any kind of professional alignment. I'm sure it's not perfectly aligned/skewed, but with the oversized dish it works. Latest News: During a recent 7 hour thunderstorm I kept *all* non-2D channels the whole time. The signal only degraded by enough to lose ITV/BBC for 10 minutes during some extremely heavy rain, but I was more concerned with the flooding in the cellar - that's how heavy the rain was. That was a once per year storm, so I count my installation as 100% reliable now. |
| Derek |
| Backnang - 36km NE of Stuttgard |
| Kathrein UFD 545 |
| 90cm dish |
| LNB Kathrein UAS177 1.1dB |
| Posted 05-03-04 |
| I can receive all BBC programs at all weather with my 3 foot (90cm) diameter-dish in Backnang 20 miles (36km) north-east of Stuttgart (south-Germany). |
| Antenna: Kathrein CAS90 (diameter 90cm, app 3feet) LNB: Kathrein UAS177 , noise figure 1.1 dB (not too good noise figure, but it works). |
| Martin C. |
| Berlin (NO ASTRA 2D) |
| Receiver not given |
| 1.2m Dish |
| LNB 0.6dB |
| Signal 30% quality reading. |
| Berlin (NO ASTRA 2D) |
| Nokia Media Master 9800 |
| 1.20m offset dish |
| LNB 0.3dB |
| Posted 26-06-03 |
| The indicator on the receiver shows, that a 1.5m offset will do it. I do not think, that just for the BBC the investment is justified. |
| Klaus D. |
| Berlin |
| Grundig Digibox |
| 1.8m Dish |
| LNB 0.6dB |
| Posted 06-12-03 |
| Hallo from Berlin, best Performance for the BBC and ITV in Berlin, all BBC and ITV 1 Signal quality 44%, ITV 2 39%. |
| Jürgen T. |
| Bremen |
| DBOX 1 |
| 85cm dish |
| LNB Not given |
| Posted 06-07-04 |
| So I've now updated my system and have bought a Sat motor for my DBOX 1 (a bargain from Ebay for 28 euro incl. postage). It was easy to install and I can now easily change between Astra 28.5 and 19.2. I would be able to receive any number of satellites with the motor, however I've had to position my sat dish on my balcony so that the neighbours don't complain and so I can't get as far as Hotbird 13.0. |
| The DVB 2000 software on the DBox is very good, changing channels is very quick. I got all the settings for the channels from www.xandy.de which I was able to transfer directly into the Dbox from my PC via serial cable. I can get all BBC channels in top quality even in bad weather (appart from the one time that the dish and stand were blown about 3ft accross the balcony in very stormy weather !) |
| The only thing I need now is ITV & C4. A friend in the UK can provide me with a viewing card and so I'm going to try to get a Digibox. I'll be back in the UK in a few weeks so hopefully I can get one then. I think maybe running 2 receivers in parallel (DBox & Digibox) may be a bit difficult to set up. However I'll need the Dbox to control the sat motor, as the Digibox does not support the Disceq protocoll which is needed to control the mtor. I'll let you know how I get on. |
| Stephen |
| Brunsbüttel - Western Schleswig Holstein |
| Receiver not given |
| 80cm Dish |
| LNB Not given |
| Cologne |
| Sony sky box |
| 60cm dish |
| LNB Not given |
| Posted 03-05-03 |
| Just to let you know, on my 60cm dish, Sony sky box, the BBC channels are back ! After some days of only getting BBC2 via channel 962 and manually BBC London and without tempering the dish. At the moment it is raining here in Cologne/Germany- so has something changed ? Have the BBC's new 2D-Transponders increased in Power? |
| Joe |
| Darmstadt - City Centre |
| Strong SRT 4155 Evolution FTA Box |
| Strong 80cm Dish |
| LNB ALPS dual o/p |
| Posted 30-08-03 |
| I bought a Strong FTA 'Starter Pack' in Germany containing all the above. Astra 2D signal is clearly weaker than 2A/B and Astra 19E, but I can get all the BBC FTA channels perfectly OK even in heavy rain. |
| Andy M |
| Dortmund & Cologne |
| Panasonic 30 |
| 85cm Dish |
| LNB 0.6dB |
| Düsseldorf |
| Nokia 150s receiver |
| 80cm dish |
| LNB 0.6dB |
| Posted 28-10-03 |
| Getting great FTA reception here in Düsseldorf. Don't attempt without a sat finder - I wasted a lot of time and was prepared to give up - with the sat finder I got it in minutes. "Media Markt" stores have a €20 sat finder, €10 compass and a Nokia 150S Cash & Carry Package with 72cm dish for €170 which will be fine for this location. |
| Adam B |
| Düsseldorf |
| Pace 266 |
| 80cm dish |
| LNB Single universal |
| Posted 11-06-04 |
| I have just put up a dish at my flat in Düsseldorf and get rock solid ASTRA 2D coverage with my PACE 266 box. The dish is 80cm. (I don't know what type of dish and LNB as it is a professional installation and out of reach.) |
| Chris M. |
| Frankfurt am Main |
| Receiver not given |
| 60cm Dish |
| LNB Not given |
| Frankfurt am Main |
| Receiver not given |
| 90cm Dish |
| LNB Not given |
Frankfurt am Main  |
| Humax CI-6100PVR |
| 80cm TechniSat dish |
| LNB Not given |
| Posted 28-08-04 |
| I live in the Taunus Hills on the northern outskirts of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. In October 2003 I installed a TechniSat 80cm satellite dish together with a Humax CI-6100PVR Digital Satellite Receiver with which I get excellent reception. |
| Roger Scott |
| Freising - 35km north-east of Munich |
| Topfield TF4000 PVR |
| 1.0m Gibertini dish |
| LNB MTI XT2 |
| Posted 12-06-03 |
| I can also receive all horizontal and vertical transponders from ASTRA 2D. I live 35 km north-east of Munich / Germany. The signal strength is 70% (for the frequency with "Going Places") and the rest is about 85-90%. All values measured with Topfield TF4000 PVR and Single MTI XT2 LNB. Dish size is 1m Gibertini. |
| Chris |
| Hameln |
| Grundig receiver |
| 80cm dish |
| LNB Samsung Universal |
| Posted 05-01-04 |
| I have a Grundig receiver (don't know model type) that I already repaired as the power supply was broken, which is a standard fault in Grundig I believe. My dish size is 80CM diameter. LNB type is a standard digital LNB from Samsung bought in local shop, located 40miles south of Hanover. I receive all free2view channels without problems. A friend of mine also has a Grundig receiver, the normal Sky minidish & LNB that was fitted as standard too it (type unknown), also located in the same area as me. He has a Sky contract and receives free2view & Sky One etc. no problem. On both systems the signal strength meter on the on screen display shows about 80-90%. Just wanted to say thanks for such a great site. It has helped me and a few friends of mine a great deal in getting info about our Sky reception for getting reception & dealing with a few problems that were encountered. I, and a few members of HM forces stationed in Germany thank you. |
| Nige |
| Hanover |
| Panasonic TU-DSB30 |
| 85cm Dish |
| LNB Standard 0.6dB |
| Posted 04-06-03 |
| All BBC, ITV - 100% Signal strength, picture good and stable, no rain yet. |
| T-online |
| Hanover Area |
| Amstrad DRX 100 & Humax receiver |
| 1.2 meter dish |
| LNB Grundig 0.7dB |
| Posted 05-06-03 |
| I upgraded to 1.2 meter dish for ASTRA 2D. No problem at all. Receiver Amstrad DRX 100, Grundig single LNB 0,7 dB, output level from LNB around 65 dBuV for ASTRA 2D transponders. With Humax receiver: signal level indication 50%, signal quality 70%. I think, even a 100 cm dish should do the job. |
| Dietmar |
| Hanover |
| Receiver NOKIA 150s |
| 85cm dish |
| LNB 0.3dB |
| Posted 25-01-04 |
| I bought all components from my local Media-Markt for around 250 EURO. I calculated the azimuth and elevation from a web site a found via Alta Vista www.satsig.net/ssazelm.htm set up the dish using a compass and the markings on the disk mounting- taking into account the fact that my pole was a wee bit squint in one direction.. Connected the Nokia and found all the BBC channels without any further adjustments of the dish. No need for a meter. |
| Stephen |
| Haselund |
| Receiver not given |
| 80cm Dish |
| LNB Not given |
| Kaiserslautern |
| Thomson DSR330TA (in pc: Hauppauge DVB-sat) |
| 60cm Dish |
| LNB Technisat |
| Signal 60-65% |
| Lower Rhine |
| Receiver not given |
| 60cm & 75cm Dish |
| LNB Not given |
| No reception during rain or snow with the 60cm, however with 75cm dish even with heavy rain/snow perfect reception. |
| Magdeburg - 11 km north of |
| Digenius TVBox S4CI |
| 78cm dish |
| LNB Sharp 0.4dB |
| Posted 22-07-03 |
| Results: The channels on 10.773 GHz are hard on the edge to receive, the Digenius C/N-meter says 6.3 to 6.7 dB. Weather: Clear sky. The channels on 10.788 GHz can well be received, the Digenius meter says 7.7 dB. |
| Edgar |
| Miesbach - border to Austria, slightly south east of Munich |
| Skymaster DXL 9350 |
| 1.2M Dish |
| LNB Not given |
| Posted 15-10-03 |
| I pick up all BBC ( with local variants ) and the other 150 other channels broadcasted. The Sat installer said because of the bad dish I'd probably loose reception in bad whether but in fact apart from major storms and cloud cover ( where I loose my Astra 1 as well ) my kit soldiers on. He said I could replace my bad 1.2 M Dish with a good 1 meter and probably get 60% Quality, 60% Strength on Astra2D only after professional alignment and top quality LNB. For anyone interested the Installer is a Brit who is on the German Britboard ( Auf wiedersehen website ) and goes under the name of Satman, he knows his shit and without him I wouldn't and couldn't have gotten the reception, doing it by hand just didn't cut it. |
| David R. |
| Moerfelden-Walldor - just south of Frankfurt Airport |
| Nokia Mediamaster 150S |
| 80 or 90cm dish |
| LNB Universal |
| Posted 25-01-04 |
| Firstly I would like to say thank you for running the astra2d Website. This is one of the most useful sites I've found on the web in a long time. Anyway let me give you some details of my set-up. I'm afraid I can't give you much technical jargon - Satellites are not my field. To start, we now have great reception of Astra 2D. We are based in Moerfelden-Walldorf, Hessen, Germany (or just south of Frankfurt Airport if it makes things easier to find). |
| I know very little about our dish, except what I can see. It's from a firm called Kreiling and I guess (looking out the loft window at it !) that it's either 80 or 90 cm). We had been watching free to air German programs for a few months until I read your website. I had a brief conversation with a local Satellite installer (thanks for the German web page link you gave - At least I had something to give to the guy). My German is not great but I understood that the satellite dish was already set-up for Astra 2D, we just needed a decoder that could cope with DiSEqC. As luck would have it I had bought a Nokia Mediamaster 150S from the local MediaMarkt for 139 Euro. I chose the Mediamaster mainly because the box it came in had everything written in English - which was a good choice in the end. |
| After I'd finished chatting to the Satellite guy I found the installation manual for the Nokia and through a combination of guessing and manual-reading I managed to configure the box to take both sites. So now our daughter can happily watch Teletubbies on KiKa (the German children's channel) at 9:00 and in English on Cbeebies later in the morning! |
| Phil G. |
| Moosinning - between Munich and Freising |
| Tevion DVR 203 (Aldi) Digital Receiver |
| 1.0m no name aluminium satellite dish |
| LNB Tevion Universal Twin |
| Posted 11-09-03 |
| I had to swap the original 60cm dish with the 100cm one as I couldn't receive Astra 2D with the 60. With the 100cm I have between 80-90% signal strength even during a thunderstorm with rain today. |
| gsternagl |
| Munich Area |
| Receiver not given |
| 1 m Dish |
| LNB Genesis 0.4db |
| Munich |
| Amstrad receiver |
| 90cm Philips Gregorian |
| LNB Not given |
| 65-70% signal (measured on a Echostar AD 3000 IPVA) |
| Munich |
| Grundig GDS200-1 |
| 88cm dish |
| LNB MTI 0.6dB |
| Posted 23-06-03 |
| 88cm Dish with MTI 0.6dB seems to be the lower limit for Astra 2D on my Grundig GDS200-1. Only light clouds allowed, but even then there are some dropouts sometimes. No reception of Astra 2D with my other digibox Grundig GDS200. Unfortunately I'm not allowed to install a bigger dish. |
| Franz |
| Paderborn |
| Grundig receiver |
| 60cm Thompson dish |
| LNB Thompson universal |
| Posted 24-08-04 |
| I got hold of a Thompson universal LNB and fitted it to my 60cm Thompson dish. Watching the signal meter on my TV from my Grundig receiver I aligned the dish to get 100% signal strength and about 75% quality. |
| Since alignment the area has experienced some heavy downpours and I have yet to loose any channels as I did previously using a Sky mini dish. |
| Al Byrne |
| Pfarrkirchen/Niederbayern - about 130km NW of Munich |
| Panasonic Sky digibox TU-DSB 30 |
| Technisat 85cm offset dish |
| LNB Technisat |
| Posted 20-09-03 |
| My equipment for receiving Astra 28°E includes a 85cm dish from Technisat with standard LNB and a Panasonic Sky digibox. Unfortunately I can't receive anything of the horizontal Astra 2D transponders. The vertical Astra 2D transponders break up most of the time, especially evenings and in good weather. The following transponders can be received with only minor dropouts: 10.788v, 10.818v, 10.847v and 10.876v. I'm already planning to replace my 85cm dish with a 125cm one, but am not sure, if I really can receive all Astra 2D channels with it. |
| Christian |
| Neulingen - 10km N of Pforzheim |
| Digicom 1plus receiver |
| 80cm dish |
| LNB Universal standard |
| Posted 02-10-03 |
| Reception of all programmes, including the BBC channels, is fine. The receiver gives me readings of 7.8--8.0, in line with the RTE programmes on that footprint. That compares to a signal of 9.1 on the `old' transponders. The highest signal strength I found is for BBC Radio Cymru (10.2), an exception as all other channels on the Europe-wide transponders (e.g. CNN, or BBC Parliament) are at 9.0--9.1. Reception gets problematic in cloud-covered conditions and heavy rain and can then break up temporarily. |
| Zobbel |
| Nuernberg |
| Sky plus ver.2 Receiver |
| 88cm Triax Dish |
| LNB Sharp 0.6db Quad |
| Posted 29-01-04 |
| My Signal Strength is about 75%, Signal Quality 55%, before with a 66cm triax i had only SS 45% and SQ 25% and lots if picture dropout, now its perfect also in bad weather! |
| Nick |
| Schmidmühlen - 35 km north of Regensburg |
| Topfield 3000 FEI |
| Gibertini 125 cm |
| LNB AP8-T2 Blueline (single) |
| Posted 23-09-03 |
| Quality 97% according to receiver, cloudless conditions, excellent reception. |
| CG |
| Stuttgart |
| Amstrad DRX 100 & Nokia Mediamaster |
| 80cm dish |
| 0.6 double LNB |
| Posted 21-06-03 |
| 80cm dish, 0.6 double LNB feeding (a) Amstrad DRX 100 in the living room for BBC, ITV, Channels 4 and 5 and (b) Nokia Mediamaster in my office for BBC radio. |
| Dish aligned by an installer with a digital meter and spectrum analyzer who reported 70dB signal level. Result - excellent quality radio signals and crystal clear TV pictures. |
| The 2d footprint shows Stuttgart as on the borderline for a 90cm dish but most reports I have seen and advice from Bavaria Satellite suggests the footprint lines are on the "conservative" side so you may well find a smaller size dish will work that is officially shown. The important point is alignment and LNB skew and unless you are very knowledgeable you'll need help from a good installer. At least in Germany you may have to make sure they know you want to receive digital signals from 2d since they normally install dishes for 1A (German channels). |
| I would imagine most people in Germany should be able to get 2d e.g. München needs 1.20m according to the footprint but you hear of people getting reception with 60cm. Certainly a bigger dish increases efficiency by around 17% in area for each increase in size 60 - 75cm, 75 - 90cm etc. |
| David W. |
| Taucha - 10km northeast of Leipzig |
| Hauppauge PCI-Sat Card |
| Gibertini 1.25m |
| LNB 0.6 dB |
| Posted 17-11-03 |
| Excellent reception of all transponders in rainy weather too. |
| Holger |
| Ulm |
| Pace 2200 and a Sony 760 |
| 1.2m Channel master solid dish |
| LNB dual output universal |
| Posted 02-03-03 |
| Both receivers give good results in all but the worst weather conditions when the 2D channels drop out. The dish was installed to get ITV and has always given + excellent performance. No impact was noticed when the BBC switched to 2D. A 60cm mesh dish with a universal LNB, an Echostar 3000 receiver. This dish has been extremely carefully aligned and also picks up 2D quite reliably although I experience drop out in bad weather sooner with this dish than I do with the 1.2m. This set up works well with the BBC radio stations and with anything that is FTA on 2D (e.g. the occasional tests of ITV2). |
| Paul N. |
| Voerde - Lower Rhine - near Dutch border |
| Amstrad 100 & Pace 2500 |
| 80cm S&L Dish |
| Alps Twin-LNB 0.6dB |
| Posted 09-06-03 |
| Reception of BBC and ITV even in poor weather fine on AMSTRAD, PACE has problems with just a little bit of rain. Checked Signal strength with ID-DIGITAL Box: |
| Good weather: Signal 75%, Quality 100% |
| Rainy weather: Signal 67%, Quality 90% |
| Heavy Rain: Signal 48%, Quality 60% |
| In heavy rain reception of ITV channels is not possible, BBC remains okay. |
| Holger N. |
| Weil - 45 km to the West of Munich |
| Receiver not given |
| 1m Gibertini Dish |
| LNB Various |
| Posted 29-08-04 |
| Equipment: 1m Gibertini Dish equipped with 3 Quattro LNBs + 9/4 Multiswitch. 2 LNBs are from Invacom 0.3dB used for 13E and 19.2E. The LNB used to receive Astra2D is a no name 0.6dB LNB (25 Euros) on the far end of the multifeed. I had tested all of the LNBs and it turned out that the no name one was better performant than the others. |
| Signal quality on Astra2D is 60% under normal conditions and 50% at night or during rain. The receiver will start resolving images at 30%, so there seems to be enough headroom. Attached is a photograph. |
| One other interesting item, I only hooked up VL and HL for Astra2D and VH, HH for Astra1 on 19E to the multiswitch. So I only need a 9 input multiswitch instead of a 13 input one |
| Charles Hage |
| Zschopau, 20km south of Chemnitz |
| Humax IRCI5400 |
| Kathrein CAS09, (about 90cm diameter) |
| Chess" 0.5dB in focus, LNB skew optimized |
| Posted 10-04-04 |
| Switch: Gigant 17in/6out, wire: about 20m quality coax-wire. |
| I changed from the MTI blue line lnb to the "chess". I was surprised of the additional about 5..10 % more quality reading. |
| Transponders: all vertical transonders from at least 20% up to 35% signal quality, reception of these transponders possible to 95% of time signal gets lost in heavy rain or snow condition. |
| No horizontal transponders all time, they show about 15..19% signal quality, on IRCI5400 pictures would appear from 20% signal quality reading 120cm needed (report will follow). |
| Andreas Heinrich |
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