GTMEDIA V8 Finder (V73-HD) Able to receive QO-100 Beacon.

[g0mjw]

Hi,

As Es´hail-2 is located at 25.8 East and all transponders there are MENA, a reception in Europe is not so easy.
Aligning the dish with BBC Arabic will lead to a slight mismatch, as the transponding sat is BADR 8 at 26.0E.
Rainer

True, but you would need a very large dish to notice the difference.

[g0mjw]

I did own one of those but found it a lot easier to use my Portsdown/bandviewer to find the NB beacons and then the WB, aided by a compass and a Lidl Inclinometer.
That it only did 1000ks and above, plus a not-obvious-to me method for entering the required data meant I sold it on.
I started with this and found it pretty quickly https://eshail.batc.org.uk/point/
Gareth

Not just the symbol rate, which is probably OK, but it also needs to tune down to the low IF you get from a standard LNB on QO100. The manual doesn't say unfortunately but the forums say the tuner covers 950-2150MHz. If that's true, it cant tune down far enough.