Russian-language TV channels of the hotbird satellite.

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Satellite TV is extremely relevant; it provides the opportunity to watch channels in high quality without compression, which attracts many people around the world. In search of the best companions, many have found Hotbird, but few know enough about it and its features.

First of all, it is worth knowing that hotbird satellite television itself is aimed more at the European market, since the 13e satellite is owned by a French company. Many fans of Russian channels, tuning into this satellite, are faced with the fact that there are quite a few channels in Russian there (meaning open ones).

Of course, there are many more paid ones, but for fans of free television this satellite will not be one of the best. However, if you are interested in foreign channels, as well as channels with Russian subtitles, then this is an option for you.

• The main list of programs supported by the satellite includes channels from the following countries:
• France.
• Switzerland.
• China.
• Portugal.
• Poland.
• Italy.
• Germany.
• Türkiye.

etc.

It should be noted that there are also channels from other countries here, but there are fewer of them, since the main target audiences are located in the above countries, as are the broadcasting companies.

In addition, a fairly large coverage area makes the satellite increasingly in demand in our time. While in Russia, you will be able to watch many free foreign channels, and even Russian ones, but there will only be a few dozen of them.

• Of course, the coverage area, although wide, has its limitations. For example, it is optimal to receive a signal from this satellite while in the area:
• Europe.
• Central Asia.
• China.
• North Africa.

Middle East.

Unfortunately, residents of other regions will not be able to receive the signal, since the coverage area is limited and has its own specific limits.

Advantages of this satellite

• Among the main advantages of Hotbird 13e it is worth noting the following:
• A list of more than five thousand channels.
• Broadcasts in different languages ​​originating from different countries of the world. Including Russian programs.
• Many channels are open access, for which you do not need to pay a subscription fee.
• The highest quality of modern digital broadcasting.
• The ability to subscribe to paid channels, which will provide even more opportunities for spending leisure time watching TV.

All you need to start using all these advantages is to set up a move with Hotbird 13e. This is done quite simply and does not require any special knowledge or skills. You will also need special equipment capable of receiving and decoding channels.

The satellite allows you to use an antenna with a diameter of 0.6 m to 0.9 m, which is very convenient, since such antennas are inexpensive, do not require much space for installation, are easy to set up and receive the signal perfectly.

Another important point. If you find yourself in an area that is covered by coverage, you will also need to make sure that there are no obstructions in the path between the antenna and the satellite.

In fact, even ordinary tall buildings or trees can damage the signal, it will not reach you, and you will not be able to take advantage of satellite TV.

Call a technician in advance to check the connectivity before installing and configuring the equipment. This way you can protect yourself from unnecessary expenses that will be in vain.

If you are not in the coverage area, you can always find other satellites that you can connect to to watch your favorite programs.

Usually, the setup takes place depending on which satellite, channels and provider have been selected. The equipment you will use also plays a significant role. It must not only meet quality standards, but also be compatible with your dish and your TV.

Installation details

Often, if you order equipment from any company, the specialists will install and configure it themselves. The parameters of the terrain, coverage, as well as other subtleties that may play a role in connection are taken into account.

The connection itself occurs in several stages:

If you want to use free channels, you will need a list of them to tune into. Such lists can be found in many sources. The most universal is the lyngsat service. It contains a list of all channels, both public and private.

You can use their tables to customize your broadcasting yourself, selecting the desired frequencies and the desired channels from the list. It is worth noting that for a hotbird the number of Russian channels is very small. Still, the satellite is more focused on other regions (Europe and Asia).

But there are Russian programs here too. There are about three dozen of them in the public domain. These are both large regional and local channels that are rebroadcast by satellite.

Satellite capabilities

Satellite 13e is special in that it offers several types of broadcasting:

• Television programs.
• Radio channels.
• Internet.

By connecting through a provider, you can receive any of these services and enjoy all the benefits of a stable satellite digital signal.

The satellite is owned by the famous French company Alcatel, and therefore the quality of the equipment and the signal transmitted through it is always at the highest level.

To get the most out of Hotbird, and especially if it is the only satellite you are configuring your equipment for, it is advisable to purchase one of the paid packages.

A subscription will give you the opportunity not only to take full advantage of satellite capabilities, but also to view closed channels. Let's say, if there are only about 20 open Russian channels, then with the package there will be about a hundred of them.

Many channels are broadcast 24 hours a day, so you can easily watch them at any time. This will especially please fans of specific channels - sports, cultural, news, erotic, etc.

1. Based on your location, select the desired satellite antenna diameter; depending on where you live, the antenna diameter can range from 0.8 to 1.2 meters. For Nizhny Novgorod and the region, the minimum diameter of a plate with a radius of 90 cm.
A detailed coverage map of the HotBird 13E satellite is located here.

2. Set up the antenna for the HotBird 13E satellite.

Note:
1. The satellite dish MUST be positioned very accurately in the direction of the satellite.
Approximate direction to the satellite "HotBird 13E"
In the central region - to the southwest.
2. There should be no obstacles between the antenna and the expected satellite position. There should be no trees, houses or other objects within a radius of 20 meters.

Example of typical obstacle options

3. The plate should only be placed in an open space. You cannot install a plate mirror inside a balcony or attic.

First you need to decide in which direction you need to point the mirror of the plate. To do this, we need 3 parameters: the azimuth value for our locality without taking into account the magnetic declination (since the magnetic declination is taken into account on the maps), the elevation angle value, and the angle of rotation of the converter.
For Nizhny Novgorod and the region these values ​​will be:
- azimuth values ​​216°
- elevation angle values ​​20.34 °
- converter rotation angle approximately 19°
In order not to lose the direction you have found, it is worth identifying a landmark for yourself, which we offer you to determine in two ways:

Determining a landmark using a compass

1. We go outside and take a compass with us.
2. Stand with your back to the building on the southwestern side of the facility, where you plan to install it.
3. We determine the direction north using the compass (i.e. when the red compass needle points to 0° on the dial).
4. Set aside the azimuth values, for Nizhny Novgorod and the region it is approximately 216 °.
5. Visually select and remember a landmark, for example, a building or a tree (the resulting direction will be the direction to the HotBird 13E satellite).

Determining a landmark on a map

1. To determine the exact direction to the satellite, take a map of the locality (printed, for example, from Internet search engines)
2. Mark the object where the antenna is planned to be installed.
3. Determine the direction to the north from the map.
4. Place a protractor on the map so that the zero is directed north. We mark 216° on the map - this will be the direction to the HotBird 13E satellite.
5. In the received direction to the “HotBird 13E” satellite, mark a landmark for yourself.

Assembling a plate for “HotBird” with a diameter of 90 cm

We select a place on the building to mount the antenna holder with visibility to a landmark.
For installation we take with us:
- A hammer drill or drill for drilling holes in the place where the antenna bracket is attached;
- Anchor bolts, screws or through studs to secure the antenna bracket to the wall;
- Electrical tape and a sharp knife for cutting cables;
- Wrenches (from 10mm to 22mm) or adjustable wrench;
- Pencil or felt-tip pen to make marks on the antenna mount

The bracket can be secured with anchor bolts, screws or through studs to ensure maximum strength under possible storm and wind loads. The section of pipe on which the antenna is attached must be strictly vertical.

We assemble the satellite dish in accordance with the attached diagram

The converter is installed in a holder on the remote antenna rod with its head facing the antenna mirror, securely fix it taking into account the required clockwise rotation angle for Nizhny Novgorod, the angle is 19°. For ease of adjusting the tilt of the converter, a scale from zero is usually marked on its body mark and marks through 5*. It should be noted that the converter must be LINEAR POLARIZED, unlike the converter for NTV+ or Tricolor TV.
Place the antenna on the bracket. Tighten the adjusting nuts so that you can move the antenna alternately in the vertical and horizontal directions with some effort.

You begin cutting the cable, remove the outer insulation 15 mm from the edge. Without damaging the central core, remove 10 mm of the dielectric with foil. Bend the remaining shielding foil of the cable. Screw the F-connector onto the cable until the central core appears.

Connect the cable to the converter, connect the other end of the cable to the satellite receiver.
The cable connection to the receiver is made STRICTLY with the receiver turned off from the 220 volt network.

ATTENTION!
If the antenna is the highest point on the building, then it is highly likely to be struck by lightning, so you need to worry about grounding and lightning rods. A lightning strike on an antenna can lead to failure of the entire equipment or to injury. When installing antennas on balconies, loggias, and walls of buildings that are already grounded, additional grounding is not required. If the antenna is installed on hills, cottages, dachas and there are no lightning rods, you must contact a construction organization to install the appropriate lightning rods.

Connecting to a TV and setting up the receiver

Turn on the TV and set it to receive video from the video input to which the receiver is connected.
Turn on the receiver. After turning on the receiver, the TV screen displays the initialization process of the receiver. If the receiver has not been configured before, after initialization is completed, the Main Menu appears on the screen.
Insert the smart card into the slot according to the direction of the arrow shown next to the card reader
Make sure that the HotBird 13E satellite is in the list of satellites of your receiver; if not, enter the data manually.

Required data for setup:

Turn on the receiver, go to the Installation-Search for channels menu. In the list of satellites on the left, select HotBird 13E. On the right in the menu, select
LNBP: On (turn on converter power)
LNBP Type: Universal (universal converter type)
LNBP Freq: 10600/9750 (indicated on converters)
22Khz: Auto (signal to switch disk)
DISEqC: None (leave it like that)

Next comes the most difficult moment, which requires a lot of endurance - this is tuning the antenna in planes. A shutter speed is required - literally a few millimeters, and there will be no signal. It’s not that it will be bad, but it won’t exist at all! The setup is as follows - you need to install the antenna in a certain vertical position. After this, you need to very, very smoothly rotate the antenna in the horizontal direction and at the same time carefully look at the quality scale, first in one direction, and if the scale does not change from 0, then to another.
If it is not possible to find a signal in the entire horizontal plane, you need to slightly change the vertical angle of the antenna and begin moving again in the horizontal plane until the signal appears. When a signal is found, you need to try to move the antenna even more smoothly left and right and achieve the maximum level of signal quality. Having achieved this, you need to try to achieve an even larger signal by very smoothly moving the antenna up and down.

So the satellite dish is installed on a bracket, and the bracket is rigidly attached to the wall of your house (this was discussed). Now you can proceed directly to the settings. First you need to approximately set the azimuth and elevation angle of the antenna.

Elevation angle is the angle by which the line of sight to the satellite deviates from the horizontal. Azimuth is the direction pointing to the satellite depending on the location of the receiving location. As an example, I give the values ​​of elevation angle and azimuth for a number of Russian cities for the satellite Hot Bird.

azimuth,° elevation,°

Arkhangelsk 211 13

Volgograd 219 26

Ekaterinburg 232 13

Kazan 231 21

Kaliningrad 189 27

Krasnodar 215 32

Moscow 208 23

Murmansk 201 11

N. Novgorod 215 20

Rostov-on-Don 215 30

St. Petersburg 200 20

Samara 223 21

Tyumen 237 10

1. To view satellite channels HotBird Any digital satellite receiver will do, since any of them is capable of receiving open (FTA) channels. In my example we use the Euston 5000PVR receiver. In accordance with the operating instructions for this receiver, connect to it the cable coming from the converter (connecting the coaxial cable to both the converter and the receiver must be done with the receiver's power turned off!)

2. Connect the receiver to the TV according to the operating instructions. After that, turn on the TV, switch it to “AV” mode and turn on the Euston 5000PVR.

3. To tune to satellite HotBird in the receiver you need to set the parameters of a strong transponder, for example, you can select 11034 -V 27500 - 3/4, where 11034 is the frequency in megahertz, V is the vertical polarization, 27500 is the symbol rate, 3/4 is the error correction code. This can be done by entering the “Installation/Single Search” menu, where we select the name of the satellite Hotbird 1/2/3/4/6 in the “Satellite” field; for a hint, the remote control buttons with which the selection is made are displayed at the bottom of the menu. Then we go to setting up the converter in the submenu “LNB Settings”, where we indicate in “LNB Type” - “Universal”, “22K” - does not turn on when selecting a universal converter, “DiSEqC1.0” - “Disable”, “DiSEqC1.1 ” – “Disable”, “Positioner” – “Off”, “Polar.” – “Auto”, “Tone” – “On”, press the “Menu” button and confirm the selection “OK”. Then select the channel scanning type “Open” - “No”, which will allow you to scan all channels, “Channel search” - “TV + radio”, “Search mode” - “Scan by preset.”

After completing all these installations, we begin to very slowly turn the antenna left and right, up and down relative to the expected location of the satellite.

4. While monitoring the level of the “Quality” scale on the TV screen, you need to slowly turn the antenna to the left (right), literally one degree at a time, until a green bar appears. If, when turning the antenna to the left (right), you do not achieve the appearance of a green stripe, and the azimuth is indicated correctly, then you need to move the antenna up (down) by one degree and repeat the search. After the strip appears, you need to smoothly turn the antenna to the left (right) to achieve the maximum possible level of the “Quality” scale, which will be displayed as a percentage. Next, we carefully fix the antenna mount, which allowed it to be moved to the left (right) and, tracking the level of the “Quality” scale, we move the antenna up (down) to the maximum value, which, ultimately, we also fix. After completing these settings, an increase in the signal level will also be achieved by rotating the converter around the axis of the holder until it reaches the maximum value, which also needs to be fixed.

5. When the antenna is configured to the maximum signal level from the HotBird satellite, it is necessary to scan the channels. To do this, in the same menu, go to the “Search” line and press the “OK” button on the remote control, as a result of which scanning information will be displayed on the TV screen. After scanning, you need to save its results.

If, as a result of viewing, there are channels with a picture that crumbles into squares, then you can adjust the antenna according to the parameters of these channels (weak transponder), which is performed in the same way as searching for a satellite using a strong transponder, only with the parameters of the weak transponder, which can be seen in advance by clicking the “Info” button.

This completes the setup, enjoy watching!

Today let’s abstract a little from Tricolor, NTV Plus and pay television in general. There are many satellites that broadcast channels in the clear. This means that you don’t have to pay a subscription fee to watch.

One of the most common satellites with a large number of different channels is Hotbird. Hotbird is translated from English as Firebird. This satellite occupies a convenient position for central Russia at 13 degrees east longitude. From this satellite you can watch channels in Belgian, English, Italian, German, French, Polish, Arabic and other languages ​​of the world. But we are primarily interested in channels in Russian. Since this satellite also contains several channels in the Armenian language, let’s talk about them.
In this article I will tell you how many and which channels in Russian and Armenian are broadcast from the Hotbird satellite, and what you need to set them up.

What diameter satellite dish will be required to receive the Hotbird satellite?

To view channels from a satellite, you will need a satellite dish with a diameter of 0.8 meters. I set up an antenna of even 0.6 meters to the satellite, and it worked surprisingly well, even in rainy weather. You can completely use a satellite dish from Tricolor or NTV Plus. But I would still recommend a 0.8 antenna.

Is it possible to use a converter from Tricolor or NTV Plus?

When receiving a satellite signal in the case of Tricolor and NTV Plus, a converter with circular polarization is used. For Hotbird, linear polarizations are used, therefore the converter from Tricolor and NTV Plus will not work. Buy an LNB with linear polarization.

Where is the Hotbird 13E satellite located, relative to Tricolor?

The orbital position of the Firebird is 13 degrees, and Tricolor and NTV Plus are 36. This means that the satellite dish should be rotated 23 degrees to the right if you stand behind the dish.


To set up a satellite, you will need a special device or assistant who will monitor the quality of the signal on the TV while you set up the antenna. To configure, use transponder 11034/V/27500. Begin to slowly rotate the plate vertically and horizontally until a signal appears. Achieve maximum strength and quality readings.

When setting up a satellite receiver, you can use automatic search. In this case, the system will set up about a thousand channels for you, among which there are only a few in Russian and only three in Armenian. I suggest using my experience and setting up the channels that interest us manually. For your convenience, I have presented a list of all channels in Russian and Armenian below.