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<blockquote data-quote="Mew" data-source="post: 840388" data-attributes="member: 29012">Hi JimmyBoyThe satellite group used by most people in the UK (such as Sky subscribers and Freesat users) is the Astra group (currently Astra 2A, 2B, 2D and 1N) at 28.2E and Eurobird 1 at 28.5E (which is close enough to 28.2E to make no difference to dish allignment). The main Free to Air channels (such as BBC, ITV Channel 4 and 5 and their varients as well as many others) broadcast from here.Astra 19.2E is a different group of satellites and you would need either another dish or to move a dish which was pointing at 28.2E to point to 19.2E to pick up channels from these satellites (at which point you would lose BBC, ITV Channel 4 &amp; 5 etc).From time to time, channels in the 28.2E / 28.5E group move either from one transponder on the same satellite to another or from one satellite to another. However these are still in the same group of satellites. The tuning parameters will change requiring a rescan but not the satellite details.Mew</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mew, post: 840388, member: 29012"] Hi JimmyBoy The satellite group used by most people in the UK (such as Sky subscribers and Freesat users) is the Astra group (currently Astra 2A, 2B, 2D and 1N) at 28.2E and Eurobird 1 at 28.5E (which is close enough to 28.2E to make no difference to dish allignment). The main Free to Air channels (such as BBC, ITV Channel 4 and 5 and their varients as well as many others) broadcast from here. Astra 19.2E is a different group of satellites and you would need either another dish or to move a dish which was pointing at 28.2E to point to 19.2E to pick up channels from these satellites (at which point you would lose BBC, ITV Channel 4 & 5 etc). From time to time, channels in the 28.2E / 28.5E group move either from one transponder on the same satellite to another or from one satellite to another. However these are still in the same group of satellites. The tuning parameters will change requiring a rescan but not the satellite details. Mew [/QUOTE]

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