German and French on One Dish

PAGE UPDATED JAN 2018:

With the introduction of new encryption, the French channels are no longer FTA, so the following are the 2 options currently possible:

1. Using a French TNT box
2. Using a Receiver with Fransat Cam

The first option is ok, if you are after just a few of the German channels, but retuning and sorting is quite difficult on most TNT french boxes. Plus with every update, it is possible that your ‘extra’ channels ( ie the German ones ) will be wiped out. There is no way to ‘Save’ and restore the channel list.

The BEST option is the Receiver + Fransat cam

• The tuning and sorting is much easier, you can choose your own favourites to be at the top of the list
• I use custom software to make the job simple with each country’s most popular at the top of the lists
• The favourite lists and tuning can be ‘saved’ and restored in seconds  should anything happen
• The system is expandable, any of the following or combination of the following channels can be achieved, with different dishes
• German
• English
• French
• Spanish ( free and paid )
• Italian
• Russian
• Polish ( both free and paid )
• Hungarian ( free )
• Thai/ Korean / Chinese / Japanese

2013 post….

I’ve frequently been asked if its possible to have both French and German free channels.

The Answer is yes!

With a suitable location, I can install a dish with  multiple LNBs to receive all the satellites having French and German channels

This is the 78cm triax being set up, with LNBs for:

• Eutelsat 5w ( French channels France2, 3,5 )
• Eutelsat 9a ( Main French channels TF1 M6
• Hotbird ( Arte, ( also Italian ) )
• Astra1 ( German and regional French )

For those wanting the UK channels as well, I do the special wide  angle dishes

force frontier dish

This incredible toroidal double reflector dish will do English , French, German, Italian and Spanish…… all in one dish !

These dishes are not usually available in the UK and over several years I’ve found the perfect equipment to work with it, the lnbs and the 5 way switches, to route the signals to the receiver are all specially purchased.