I heard it 4th hand, that $KY have been told they have to tighten up
their footprint, to stop oversea's viewers watching their channels,
even if it means, causing reception problems in the UK. Its supposed
to happen June/July. They also apparently, will send out somebody to
every $KY account holder, to check they are operating their $KY
account, at the address they have for them.

That's all of what I heard, so don't ask for further information

Probably nonsense, but if it turns out to be true, you heard it here
first, from me.

Mark in Spain.

On 2010-04-07, Anti-Spam wrote:
I heard it 4th hand, that $KY have been told they have to tighten up
their footprint, to stop oversea's viewers watching their channels,

How? Sky don't control the footprint of the Astra satelites.

even if it means, causing reception problems in the UK. Its supposed
to happen June/July. They also apparently, will send out somebody to
every $KY account holder, to check they are operating their $KY
account, at the address they have for them.

They have no authority to enter any homes, so that would be a rather
fruitless (and expensive) waste of time.

--
David Taylor

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:48:46 +0000 (UTC), David Taylor
wrote:

On 2010-04-07, Anti-Spam wrote:
I heard it 4th hand, that $KY have been told they have to tighten up
their footprint, to stop oversea's viewers watching their channels,

How? Sky don't control the footprint of the Astra satelites.

Not only that, CAN the footprint be adjusted? It involves
reconfiguring the shape of the dish and/or the position (distance from
dish if you want to increase/decrease the size of the footprint) of
the radiator on the dish on the satellite. Most dishes can't do this,
and the procedure is very dangerous - if the mechanism jams (bear in
mind it has probably never been used before) you have a useless
satellite. You can easily adjust the position of a footprint just by
moving the dish and/or the satellite's aim.

even if it means, causing reception problems in the UK. Its supposed
to happen June/July. They also apparently, will send out somebody to
every $KY account holder, to check they are operating their $KY
account, at the address they have for them.

They have no authority to enter any homes, so that would be a rather
fruitless (and expensive) waste of time.

I can't see that (Sky visiting everyone) being true either. That would
be such a huge undertaking. It would cost them far too much. Think of
the number of re-visits for people who are out, at work, on holiday,
etc.

--
Vincent

Anti-Spam wrote:
I heard it 4th hand, that $KY have been told they have to tighten up
their footprint, to stop oversea's viewers watching their channels,
even if it means, causing reception problems in the UK. Its supposed
to happen June/July. They also apparently, will send out somebody to
every $KY account holder, to check they are operating their $KY
account, at the address they have for them.

That's all of what I heard, so don't ask for further information

Probably nonsense, but if it turns out to be true, you heard it here
first, from me.

Mark in Spain.

No doubt that story started April 1st.

--
Adrian

On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:55:49 +0100, Vincent
wrote:



I can't see that (Sky visiting everyone) being true either. That would
be such a huge undertaking. It would cost them far too much. Think of
the number of re-visits for people who are out, at work, on holiday,
etc.

Not to mention those that told them to **** off
--
Cheers

Peter

(Reply to address is a spam trap - pse reply to the group)

"Anti-Spam" wrote in message
...
I heard it 4th hand, that $KY have been told they have to tighten up
their footprint, to stop oversea's viewers watching their channels,
even if it means, causing reception problems in the UK. Its supposed
to happen June/July. They also apparently, will send out somebody to
every $KY account holder, to check they are operating their $KY
account, at the address they have for them.

That's all of what I heard, so don't ask for further information

Probably nonsense, but if it turns out to be true, you heard it here
first, from me.

Mark in Spain.




and if it turns out to be a load of cobblers from someone who thinks it's
cool to call sky $ky ?




--
Gareth.

that fly...... is your magic wand....
http://dsbdsb.mybrute.com
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On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 16:51:05 +0100, "The dog from that film you saw"
wrote:



"Anti-Spam" wrote in message
.. .
I heard it 4th hand, that $KY have been told they have to tighten up
their footprint, to stop oversea's viewers watching their channels,
even if it means, causing reception problems in the UK. Its supposed
to happen June/July. They also apparently, will send out somebody to
every $KY account holder, to check they are operating their $KY
account, at the address they have for them.

That's all of what I heard, so don't ask for further information

Probably nonsense, but if it turns out to be true, you heard it here
first, from me.

Mark in Spain.




and if it turns out to be a load of cobblers from someone who thinks it's
cool to call sky $ky ?

"Cool" ?

On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:57:54 +0100, Charles Ellson
wrote:

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 16:51:05 +0100, "The dog from that film you saw"
wrote:



"Anti-Spam" wrote in message
. ..
I heard it 4th hand, that $KY have been told they have to tighten up
their footprint, to stop oversea's viewers watching their channels,
even if it means, causing reception problems in the UK. Its supposed
to happen June/July. They also apparently, will send out somebody to
every $KY account holder, to check they are operating their $KY
account, at the address they have for them.

That's all of what I heard, so don't ask for further information

Probably nonsense, but if it turns out to be true, you heard it here
first, from me.

Mark in Spain.




and if it turns out to be a load of cobblers from someone who thinks it's
cool to call sky $ky ?

"Cool" ?

If you pair of knob jockeys don't like what I post, stop wasting all
of our time, and put me in your filters list.

On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:15:04 +0200, Guess who?
wrote:

On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:57:54 +0100, Charles Ellson
wrote:

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 16:51:05 +0100, "The dog from that film you saw"
wrote:



"Anti-Spam" wrote in message
...
I heard it 4th hand, that $KY have been told they have to tighten up
their footprint, to stop oversea's viewers watching their channels,
even if it means, causing reception problems in the UK. Its supposed
to happen June/July. They also apparently, will send out somebody to
every $KY account holder, to check they are operating their $KY
account, at the address they have for them.

That's all of what I heard, so don't ask for further information

Probably nonsense, but if it turns out to be true, you heard it here
first, from me.

Mark in Spain.




and if it turns out to be a load of cobblers from someone who thinks it's
cool to call sky $ky ?

"Cool" ?

If you pair of knob jockeys

Oh dear.

don't like what I post, stop wasting all
of our time, and put me in your filters list.

You seem to have an identity problem that might defeat such actions.

On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:02:39 +0200, Anti-Spam wrote:

I heard it 4th hand, that $KY have been told they have to tighten up
their footprint, to stop oversea's viewers watching their channels,
even if it means, causing reception problems in the UK. Its supposed
to happen June/July. They also apparently, will send out somebody to
every $KY account holder, to check they are operating their $KY
account, at the address they have for them.

That's all of what I heard, so don't ask for further information

Probably nonsense, but if it turns out to be true, you heard it here
first, from me.

Mark in Spain.

I am told that its now apparently wide spread on the internet, maybe
not posted in the format I originally posted (it was 4th hand) but in
essence is true, that they intend to tighten up the Astra2D footprint
to stop oversea;'s viewers watching UK TV.

Has anybody got any real truth's on this rumour, please?

Mark in Spain.