Originally Posted by Stravinsky

I wouldn't be so sure of that. In Spain in Valencia region you can get by with a 1.8 m dish, but you do lose programmes at certain parts of the day. Move further south and you need a 2 mtr dish in the CDS. Egypt is much further South I think, so you might find you need a 7 mtr dish to receive

I may be wrong, but we have been advised that the further South you go the bigger dish you need, and that certainly seems true from experience