Satellite question. Can't detect Sesat W4 signal

Tinuel

Hi,
I have got a motorised dish and would like to watch some channels from home currently being broadcast on the Eutelsat Sesat W4 on 36 East orbital position. The problem is that my system can't detect the signal, I have moved the dish left and right, spent hours on it and nothing. Starting to think that I can't pick it up but according to the Eutelsat website, it's available in the UK. I leave some details below, for some assistance as I am a newbie on this. It picks up other Eutelsat, Astra, Hotbird but not this one.

Satellite: Eutelsat Sesat W4 on 36 East orbital position
Location: London
Receiver: Illusion M3
Dish: Standard 60 cm
Dish motor: Technomate

Many thanks

Tinuel

Hi Guys,
Anyone that know about dish setups around here?

weegie.geek

W serves Central Africa. You'll need more than 60cm to get it, I'm positive.

Looking at http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/ew4.html you're almost definitely not going to be able to get it.

Tinuel

weegie.geek wrote: »

W serves Central Africa. You'll need more than 60cm to get it, I'm positive.

Looking at http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/ew4.html you're almost definitely not going to be able to get it.

Hi, thanks for the assistance,

But I manage to get other "Ws", last night I was watching some African channels on Eutelsat W3A. Does that mean that 60cm is enought for Eutelsat W3A but not for Sesat?

Many thanks

Kingsd316

You need at least an 80cm dish depending on where you are in the UK, look on this site, put in your postcode and it will give you the exact angle and position to set your dish up

http://www.uksatellitehelp.co.uk/2007/08/12/satellite-alignment-calculator-v2/

weegie.geek

Tinuel wrote: »

Hi, thanks for the assistance,

But I manage to get other "Ws", last night I was watching some African channels on Eutelsat W3A. Does that mean that 60cm is enought for Eutelsat W3A but not for Sesat?

Many thanks

Compare the coverage maps. W3A covers Europe as well as South Africa.

http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/ew3a.html

Sesat you can probably get as long as you're not too far north.

http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/maps/sesat_fixed.html

You seem to be confusing SESAT and W4 though, they're entirely different satellites, albeit run by Eutelsat.

Look at the coverage here: http://www.eutelsat.com/satellites/satellite-fleet.html