TELMICRO BACK?

I wonder how many people still have the equipment.  

Anyone who didn't go over to Torresat 

My neighbour was desparate for her UK fix but couldn't get a reception for Torresat so had Simulsat installed.

I'm non resident so I was loathe to sign up for anyone else.  I was able to reconnect the system to receive Simulsat gratis and have now had TDT installed.  Great for learning Spanish and also keeping up with news in Spain rather than UK.

I've just read RTN on-line and see that there are quite a few adverts in there for Telemicro installations, 40e for new dish and 150 for complete installation - 16 channels in total.

One thing is for sure! They will not be rebroadcasting sky sports or sky movies again! How they got away with that I do not know..

I read about another "re-broadcaster" that got shut down I think near Cabo-Roig last year it was in the papers, and a Swiss Company in Denia got raided and shut down.I would eat a 1.9 Famaval dish if these rebroadcasters have any formal permission or any agreements with BBC ITV CH4 etc to rebroadcast there channels as it is a form of piracy.

As with anything in life you get what you pay for!

One thing I've never been able to understand is why when the signal is coming from a satellite in the sky do we need a 1.9 dish to receive it.  I'm not asking for an explanation as it would go straight over my head anyway. 

If it was small like the ones in UK then every house on the Costa Blanca would install one and the Re Broadcasters would go out of business.

The simple fact is there are more small houses in the Costa Blanca than villas or apartment blocks which have the area required to install a 1.9 dish.  Re-Broadcasting is the only way that I and many others can receive UK tv, it will always do well here due to the demand. 

I know from experience that I live in a bad reception area, I also have difficulty in receiving TDT when the sky is clear.  Bad weather overhead and it's picture perfect...go figure.  New transmitters have been installed recently so I'm hoping that this will have been sorted when I next go out to Spain.

One thing I've never been able to understand is why when the signal is coming from a satellite in the sky do we need a 1.9 dish to receive it.

That is where you are misunderstanding.

UK TV actually comes from 4 satellites, each of these satellites have their own characterisics and transmitting patterns.

In fact if you wanted Sky Sports 1,2 and 3 then you should be OK with a 80 or even a 60 cm dish - as these are transmited from one of the satellite "beams" that is easy to receive. But SSport 4 is on another satellite to 1,2,3 and so reception of SS4 is worse, hence a bigger dish helps reception.

But if you want the free to air versions of BBC1,2,3,4,itv1,2,3,4,C4,e4,m4,five then they are on a satellite with a beam whose reception is poor in Spain, hence big dish.

So you only need a big dish if you want the channels that are on that weaker satellite. I would say that over 50% of the SKy PAY channels are available on a 60-80cm dish over most of Spain.