Receive German channels abroad

What you need:

• Digital antenna
• Satellite dish
• Digital receiver
• TV
• radio
• Computer system

How to receive German stations abroad

Regardless of whether it is a TV program or radio, you can often receive German channels abroad in one way or another. Your location usually determines what exactly you have to do for this.

• If you are abroad near the German border, you will usually receive all radio stations that you would also receive on the German side. You should also receive all digital terrestrial TV channels that are broadcast in Germany. To do this, you need a digital antenna, a suitable digital receiver and, of course, a television set. The greater the distance between you and the border, the more effort you have to put into ensuring interference-free reception. A digital external antenna is then better, which is installed as high as possible, preferably on the roof, and which is directed towards Germany. The antenna should be directed towards the closest transmission point. This is usually located in the largest city near the border.
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• With a suitable system, you can receive the signals from the ASTRA satellite, which broadcasts many German television and radio programs, in almost all of Europe. You need a satellite dish with digital LNB, digital receiver, coaxial cable and of course a television. You can also buy this as a complete set. On the one hand, it is also important to have a clear view to the south so that your system can also receive the signal and, depending on the living situation, the approval of the owner of your apartment to set it up.
• There are radio stations, such as Deutschlandfunk, which you can receive almost anywhere in the world without "additional equipment". To do this, get the relevant frequencies from the Internet.
• You can receive German channels abroad via the Internet. The prerequisites for this, however, are a broadband internet connection and a modern one computer.


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If you don't get a reception

• In spite of all the possibilities, you should not be able to receive any German channels, for example because you have no Internet have or are not allowed to set up an antenna, seek expert advice in an electrical specialist shop or electrical market Location. More and more people of different origins and correspondingly different languages ​​live in countries from which they do not come. The specialist trade is therefore often set to the demand for reception solutions for broadcasters of certain language groups and knows all the tricks.
• If all else fails, you can still have recorded programs sent to you by your “loved ones at home”. Alternatively, you can contact other Germans or German speakers with whom you can then, if necessary, see and hear corresponding programs or receive them in recorded form can.