Please don't be confused by the name. There is nothing clever at all about me when it comes to understanding how to receive Sat tv in France and further south. We have a Meccatronic auto sat, I think its 65cm dish, which was fitted on a new French van which we imported to Britain last year. It was set up to receive BBC, ITV etc by the dealer and works fine in Northern France and England. It appeared to stop picking up a signal around half way south and we could get nothing at all around the Med and then sprang back to life when we tried it again in Le Touquet. Our control panel tells us that we use Astra 28 to pick up UK channels but I am now even more confused by reading what you experts have posted as you talk about Astra 2 (E?). Are they the same? My local dealer tells me that because of changes to the positioning of the satellites we will not be able to get any UK tv channels in Southern France, Spain or Portugal and although I suspect he is probably correct some of you guys clearly manage it. I really don't understand whether or not we need to change to a different satellite the further south we travel and whether our satellite is tuned into the UK beam or the European beam and indeed if it changes automatically or has to be done manually, and if so how does one do this.
As you can see from reading the above I, that is my husband and I simply don't have a clue. The Jack Russel probably understands it better than us.
As you can see from reading the above I, that is my husband and I simply don't have a clue. The Jack Russel probably understands it better than us.