Satelite TV v. a normal aeriel
anthony.kent
watchable but many sites tend to be in poor signal areas, Could I use a
satellite system, would it receive terrestrial t.v., and if so what sort of
cost am I looking at to set up, We don't have satellite at home (Cable
instead) so dishes, decoders etc are all new to me.
Any advice/help appreciated.
Thanks
Tony
Darren Jarvis
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You cannot use a satellite dish/receiver to pick up normal terrestrial
signals; for this you would need a standard Ariel. However, many channels
found on terrestrial stations are also broadcast via satellite - check with
your satellite service provider (don't forget you will need to subscribe to
them before you can receive most of the channels).
Darren
George (Max) Townend
now carry a conventional aerial, but even though you would expect a
directional aerial to perform better than the Status (even after the status
signal amplifier), sometimes the Status will give me reasonable pictures on
two channels, while I have to plug in the conventional aerial for the rest -
very odd!.
One thing to remember with Satellite - you need a pitch with a clear field
of view to the south - if like many sites today, you are sited close to the
greenery in to tree and shrub lined bays, the satellite signal will be
severely attenuated by the leaves, especially when it rains. Most
satellites are only about 20 degrees or so above the horizon in the UK, so
even small trees can get in the way. I don't have digital - maybe the
digital signal can be decoded from a much weaker signal than the old
analogue stuff?
Does anyone know if the Status signal amplifier is specially configured for
thay piece of kit? I tried patching my conventional aerial through it once,
but it ony made things worse.
Max
John Fowler
You have two choices
1. Pay £40 for digital satellite installation from Sky then subscribe to one
of their packages from about £12 to £32 per month. As a side you will get
free digital BBC1 BBC2 (no ITV yet) Channel 4 and Channel 5. In addition you
will get all the other free to air channels such as BBC Choice and BBC
Education.
2. Pay £100 for digital satellite installation from Sky, there is no need to
subscribe but you will get all the above mentioned channels.
Included in both deals is the set top box dish and remote control.
Personally I have the full subscription which gives me 100s of channels
including sports, movies, news documentaries etc.
You can take your set top box with you in your caravan using a second mini
dish and get the all the channels you subscribe to at home in your van,
I did it this year in the Vendee in France!
Additional dish for the van cost me about £50.
John Bretton
John,
Was the additional dish that you bought just a normal one? If so, how did
you mount it?
John B
anthony.kent
sticking to the roof with suction cups, on our current van (Avondale
Grampian) it was already fitted through the roof.
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George (Max) Townend
system up - the direction for Astra was something like 21 degrees above the
horizon and a few degrees east of due south. The reason given was that the
satellite footprint was optimised for central Europe and Northern UK was on
the edge of it. I don't know if the digital birds are in different orbits.
Max
"Simon Gardner" <66...@hack.powernet[dot]co[dot]uk> wrote in message
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> In article <39c4e...@katana.legend.co.uk>,
> "George \(Max\) Townend" <geo...@legend.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Most
> > satellites are only about 20 degrees or so above the horizon in the UK,
so
> > even small trees can get in the way.
>
> This is completely untrue. I think you are getting confused by offset
lnbs.
>
>