RE: Cheap Satellite System

["Nigel Giddings" <nigel.giddings@xxxxxxx>]

Mike,

This is an 'Analogue Box' not digital, not sure how long Sky plan to
continue Analogue transmission. There are a number of Free To Air programs,
SKY News is always a favourite.

Alignment of a dish is relatively simply. The Astra Satellites are at 19.8
degrees East of North, you need a clear path. You need to mount the dish
twice the distance from any high objects, roofs, trees, blocks of flats
etc.
as they are high.

Eg if the tree is 50ft higher than the dish mounting point and in the line
of sight the dish needs to be 100 feet away from it.

This is not a motorised system, you pick the 'bird' and tune to its
stations. You don't have to use Astra, you might try Eutelsat... check out
there websites for the latest channels carried. You may want to try
manually
moving the dish but its not recommended. You can also mount two LNBs on
dish
to pick up two different positions from the same dish, it gets complicated
and you would require additional H/W probably making it uneconomic.

Regards

Nigel

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Lucas [mailto:aardvaark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 August 2003 18:48
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Cheap Satellite System

Hi All,

I don't often post messages to the group but I wanted some advice from
you A / V experts.
LIDL supermarkets are selling an 80cm Satellite dish & Tuner for under
£40.

http://www.lidl.co.uk/gb/index.nsf/pages/c.o.oow.20030821.p.Satellite_Sy
stem

It could be a great buy but I have a few questions that I don't know
the answer to:

1.      Is a dish without sky subscription any use?
2.      Is it possible to fit and align a dish yourself without
specialist equipment?
3.      Would this setup receive signals from just one broadcast
satellite, or could I pick-up other signals?

If anybody has any answers for me I would be grateful.

Cheers
Mike L


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