Marcel,

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:12:33 -0700, Marcel Birthelmer wrote:

> Hi all,
> in light of the upcoming 2006 soccer world cup (and the recent start of 
> the '05/'06 bundesliga season), this displaced German was wondering if 
> anyone has any experience receiving european satellite TV in the US. 
> I've done some searching online and found a decent overview of satellite 
> information at http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/ksv/satfaq.html , but no 
> information on receiving signals from, say, Astra1 stateside. Any ideas?

I think you'd have very little chance of success - even on the East coast of the USA you'd be *well* outside 
the footprint, and any signal that does go that way is going to be really weak.  Have you investigated whether 
it would be available on the Internet?

Cheers,
Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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