FACT - Freeview is a terrestrial service, it does not use a satellite. Even the Astra2D page you have linked to tells you that.

FACT - Astra 2D does not transmit Dave and if you want to check look at the channel list.

In reply to a post by MHC:

FACT - Freeview is a terrestrial service, it does not use a satellite. Even the Astra2D page you have linked to tells you that.

FACT - Astra 2D does not transmit Dave and if you want to check look at the channel list.

FACT: IT'S A DISH.

FACT: DAVE IS BACK - YAHOO!

FACT:

So, you explain how a terrestrial service is being delivered by a satellite bearer.

I can't explain it but I have similar system! - 40+ flats, 2 dishes (Astra 2 + something else, I think - can't find the paperwork at present) + some esoteric switching/consolidation hardware (which broke at the weekend!))
Currently being upgraded to support Sky plus - i.e. twin cables to each point, rather than a single feed.
Facilities available at each (new) point - twin satellite connections, analogueTV connection - incl Freeview, FM/DAB Radio service.

In reply to a post by MHC:

So, you explain how a terrestrial service is being delivered by a satellite bearer.

Have I? That's good it's helped you sort it out finally.

Re: Check http://www.astra2d.com/ for more info.

I see nothing on this link that indicates that Freeview can be received by a dish.

Re: ...To be honest, I can't say for sure, I CAN'T see up that high?

So HOW can you be SO adamant that you are connected to a dish and not an aerial???
Perhaps you only THINK ( been ) told that you are connected to a DISH and that there is an AERIAL up there that you are totally unaware of ???

I agree with earlier posts that the frequenies capable of being received by an AERIAL are very different to those capable by a DISH


See Link for expanation of ?? possible source of confusion on the part of OP Especially the reference to having an AERIAL 'link through' on the TV itself

http://www.vowles-home.demon.co.uk/Sat/Sky.htm#Freeview

Edited by deleted (Tue 06-Jul-10 23:16:03)

Just to re-emphasise the point
Freeveiw is transmitted by a terrestial TV mast e.g. Emley Moor.

These transmissions CANNOT be received by a satellite dish.

- look at link in my previous post for the detail on this aspect of the debate.

Reference :- So FREEVIEW Channels you ONLY receive through an Aerial and a Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) Receiver (which is also known as a set top box or Freeview box) NOT SATELLITE.

In all honesty this reference should really settle the debate

Edited by deleted (Tue 06-Jul-10 23:33:48)

Aye, it's very good too.

In reply to a post by Gypsydog:

Freeveiw is transmitted by a terrestial TV mast e.g. Emley Moor.

These transmissions CANNOT be received by a satellite dish.

But there is nothing to prevent them being received by a dish aerial... although it would need to be fairly big, 2m plus at a guess.

Personally I think there's probably a Yagi somewhere that the OP hasn't spotted, but the doggedness with which the posters in this thread insist that a dish must be pointing at a satellite is truly amazing

Re ...Personally I think there's probably a Yagi somewhere that the OP hasn't spotted,

My view also as I stated in one of my posts.

Re: ....but the doggedness with which the posters in this thread insist that a dish must be pointing at a satellite is truly amazing

BUT probaably accurate

The laws of physics relating to the electro-magnetic spectrum haven't been changed by the 'new' coalition government have they ????

Edited by deleted (Tue 06-Jul-10 23:51:36)