7E - Which beam to look at?

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    Hey everyone,


    I'm looking to join the hobby of satellite TV, and have already found a ton of useful information on this forum. Thanks for that! I have a (noob) question of which I haven't been able to find the answer.


    I'd like to have a satellite that can receive sports feed from 7E. I live in the middle of the Pyrenees, so SatBeam recommends a least a 65cm dish for the A beam. However, do I also need to consider the B beam? Because that would make it to a minimum of 90cm.


    Thanks

    Feeds are not taken into consideration when calculating suggested dish sizes.

    Those numbers are for normal TV channels on that sat.

    Feed transmissions have quite variable and mostly very low signals, so I'd suggest at least a 1.2m dish for your region - 1.5m would be even better for bad weather conditions.

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