Thread: Which sat provider is more east facing?

At one of the places I lived in Edmonton, my blacony faced East, and I was able to catch expressvu, so if your in Van, your dish should point even further east then here, so i dont see why not, as long as you see i good portion of the south from your balcony and clear to the east, youll be fine. Its probably around the Saks\Man border where the dish is dead on south and as you continue going east you start facing the dish towards the west. starchoice's straigh the south is closer the ab\sask border.

Nimiq 91 & 82 coordinates:

Azimuth: 120 (magnetic)
skew: 25.4
elevation: 22

Hmmm I entered my information. And I have some results but I don't see any green line to the satellite?

Hmm interesting its said maybe southwest for BEV

P.S I have figured this site out-excellent link-thanks!! Hmmm I might be able to get a signal for 91.

Smaller dish equals lower signal gain. Lower look angle means more atmosphere for signal to penetrate through, thus greater chances of rain fade. Vancouver isn't exactly known for sunny skies especially this time of year. Former SC sub for 5 years, current BEV sub for 5 years. Experienced both. Fanboi of neither. Now back on topic. If the OP wants BEV he is certainly not making a mistake going that route and I wouldn't try to talk him out of it. Just pointing out some facts about satellite tv in general he should be aware of.

Really?

I would have thought southeast.

Well spotted, yet another error with my compass.....

Sorry, I actually haven't been there in a while. It's a blue line. Did you see that?

Keep in mind that Bell sats have a very low look angle from the west coast + subject to rain fade

Well now we know where you are, you are wanting to look South west....

Try this

http://www.dishpointer.com/

Nicely brought back on topic, well sort of.....