You would probably need a 1.5 metre or more likely 2 meter dish to get Sky in Dubai but reception of Sky out there wouldn't be impossible for most channels but reception of some might not be so good!
(18-06-2012 19:49 )HoneyRocks Wrote: [ -> ]You would probably need a 1.5 metre or more likely 2 meter dish to get Sky in Dubai but reception of Sky out there wouldn't be impossible for most channels but reception of some might not be so good!
I couldn't get Sky when I worked a little further North of Dubai, however some of the channels were very "interesting" especially one night when watching a world cup game, within seconds of the game finishing the subject matter changed from football, to a woman getting spit roasted!
No credits, no adverts, the channel just went from footy to the middle of a porn film...... it caused a few red faces, the game was being shown on a big screen to a mixed (thankfully adult) audience at the time!
it got a big cheer, until the killjoys turned it off
whose this babe??? id like her "special" massage
(18-06-2012 21:32 )mrsmith Wrote: [ -> ]I couldn't get Sky when I worked a little further North of Dubai,
You won't get Sky in Dubai no matter how big your dish, simply because once you get more than about 3,000 miles away from the UK the curvature of the earth means that the satellite drops below the horizon relative to where you are (which is why we can't get channels from US or Australian satellites etc in the UK).
Some of the middle eastern countries can recieve Sky satellite stations and ok I might be wrong about Dubai .
But certainly at the beginning of when the Iraq conflict started, the SSVC organisation that runs BFBS radio & tv for the armed forces set up receivers for the troops at the various bases and the radio station I was involved with at the time and Virgin 1215 were getting quite a response from troops out there for dedications pre a time before many radio stations were successfully streaming audio and many of us in the main still on dial up internet!
And the only satellite feed for Virgin Radio and the station I was on was via Sky, but SSVC did use big dishes for this.
For a long while there were concerns about Sky News and other UK news channels being recieved in the conflict countries and the opposition enemies using information gained from the news channels against our troops.
(19-06-2012 00:26 )HoneyRocks Wrote: [ -> ]Some of the middle eastern countries can recieve Sky satellite stations and ok I might be wrong about Dubai .
But certainly at the beginning of when the Iraq conflict started, the SSVC organisation that runs BFBS radio & tv for the armed forces set up receivers for the troops at the various bases and the radio station I was involved with at the time and Virgin 1215 were getting quite a response from troops out there for dedications pre a time before many radio stations were successfully streaming audio and many of us in the main still on dial up internet!
And the only satellite feed for Virgin Radio and the station I was on was via Sky, but SSVC did use big dishes for this.
For a long while there were concerns about Sky News and other UK news channels being recieved in the conflict countries and the opposition enemies using information gained from the news channels against our troops.
A little off topic, but the previous poster explained about the curve of the earth, yes Sky and BBC was available to troops in Iraq on BFBS, just like they are still In Afghan and all over the world, BFBS will lease a transponder off a comercial satelite operator, and usually the signals will be encrypted to stop copyright enfringment.
Other UK channels might be found in the region, but you have a snow flake in hells chance of the Babe channels being shown In the Gulf.
This has nothing to do with girls who f*** for funds, on "holiday" or otherwise, but the curvature of the earth is not the reason SKY cannot be seen in Dubai
Dubai's Longitude is 55 degrees east and Sky broadcasts from Astra satellites at 28 degrees East so the UK, at, as any fule no, 0 degrees is actually "further away" from the point in the DRCongo that is directly below the satellite.
Geostatiionary orbit is 22000 miles above the Earths surface so you can show that a transponder signal could, if pointed in the right direction, be picked up anywhere within an circle of just over 5500miles from this point.
However the sky transponders are pointed at the UK and you need 3 metre dishes to get a reasonable signal in Cyprus so probably at least twice that in the gulf - not really a domestic proposition.
Sorry I thought this was the Eascorting thread, not the can I watch Babestation in Dubai.