Hotbird 13 degrees east satellite footprint and reception information.

Easily receivable throughout Europe parts of middle east, parts of Asia and parts of North Africa, if you live within the reception area, want the 3pm sports and other channels from the European TV providers Sky Italia or Nova (Greece), - you can get a card from us. These are official footprints, some signals may extend beyond the fringes.

We sell the following cards suitable for hotbird..

Sky Italia (h6,8,9) and Aljazeera Sports (h9)

The Sky Italia package with calcio sports requires a dedicated Sky Italia receiver which we supply. 

The Aljazeera sports package requires a card reader receiver supporting either Irdeto, viaccess or CI receiver and Viaccess or Irdeto Cam, we currently stock the Irdeto versions of the cards, with viaccess versions available on demand.

The Hotbird footprints are extensive as can be seen below, extending into the far North and even East, contract workers in Iraq, and Kuwait, Dubai, or Abu Dhabi, looking for easy to receive English channels on a relatively small dish are well advised  to consider Sky Italia, which has a substantial amount of English content (without subtitles), although this can no longer be said about the live 3pm football on a Saturday (see Sky Italia pages for more detail).