Satallite Reception

i know what the official satallite reception area is in France but what are Craicers getting out there , i met a guy last year who was getting a signal on a 33cm dish in St Jean de Monts , I have a 53cm portable dish and was just wondering should I bring it ( did"nt last year ) We need a Corrie fix ,also handy for home Radio channels

Ours was grand until about Provence somewhere, although we might have had it as far south as Virona in very northern Spain. That many places etc.....

It should have worked in Paris as Liseuix is much the same latitude.

The reduction in the footprint only seems to effect south of 45 degrees latitude.

In Vias Plage, just outside Beziers, all BBC's and ITV's gone but RTE, TV3 & UTV Ireland OK. Some Sky crap also missing.

Just missed you Colin, we left there yesterday morning and moved on to Marsillan plage. By any chance did we meet you on the road? We got a very friendly wave from a passing Motorhome on the way, I didn't catch the Reg or make do.

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Now at Bacares Port, near Perpignon and RTE TV3 now gone, but TV3+1 and UTV Ireland are still with us. Dish in use is Maxview crank-up (old type)
Hoping TV3+1 is not on tight beam and it will stay with us for the Rugby World Cup as we follow the sun south

Now at Sant Feliu De Guixols on the Costa Brava, free Aire & services
RTE 1&2, TV3, 3e, BBC's & ITV's are all well gone
TV3+1 and UTV Ireland are still coming in good and strong

Some Sky channels are also gone, but we don't watch much of their stuff.

Equipment is an old type Maxview 66 Crank-up dish and an old Pace SD Sky digibox.

Planning to stay put for a few days but will post updates as we move further South.

We have a 60cm dish on Freesat. Went south to Mediterranean in August. Lost BBC/ITV/CH4 channels just north of Millau. Got them back again as we worked our way back north. All channels available from Condom and had them in the Dordogne and Bordeaux and further north.

I was surprised to find that we had Newstalk radio on the Med. along from Agde to Perpignan, but no RTE radio whatsoever available in those parts. We found Newstalk great to keep up to date with what was happening back home. It reduced the need to purchase WiFi which costed €3 to €5 per day for one device on campsites and generally was not strong enough to watch TV via Filmon.

Even with a static 1.2m dish I can't get any uk channels at my house roughly 40miles north of Peniscola