DO ANY MEMBERS KNOW THE BEST SAT T.V. SETUP TO GET

HI I CANT FIND THE BEST SAT T.V. SETUP FOR HOME G.B.  I HAVE SEEN SKY ANY HELP PLEASE ????????

Do you mean the best Sattellite TV setup for use in Spain to receive UK channels?

Hi, Ive seen whole packages for sale in Lidls in the UK for £60/£70 which includes the dish and receiver.  I was thinking about buying this for my apartment as satelite set ups in Spain without the monthly fees are expensive - around 1500 euros or so Ive read.

Has anyone had any experience of such this equipment?

You can buy those same satellite setups in Spain from Brico houses, other DIY places for the same price.  You won't get Sky on them in Spain nor will you get freesat.  You will get some other satellites, mainly German or Dutch, but you can sometimes get BBC Prime and 24 hour news programmes.  Basically the dish is too small.  If you want satellite, you will need the bigger (and better made) dishes because you are right on the limit of the UK satellite footprints.  (Seems funny talking about this in the Driving in Spain forum ---- if you look at the TV in Spain forum further down you will see it has been discussed there).

IMHO you are just as well off using the TDT (Spanish Digitial TV) with an outside aerial.  Plenty of English (ie American) programmes on which do a dual language broadcast.  You will not, though, get any English news channels.

If you do want the freesat channels, plenty of advertisers now do these for around (or under) the €500 mark which includes dish, lnb, receiver, remote and installation.  Depends where you live on the size of the dish and, again, this has been discussed under TV in Spain including footprint maps which show the size of dish you'll need.

Yep!

I agree with Bobaol.

This subject has been discussed to death on this forum!

Come on people, do a bit of research before you post a 'new' question!

The kits in Lidl and the like are for 'Mobile Homes' and they will not pick up 'Sky' on the CDS or indeed most of Spain

On the CDS you will need at least a 1.80cm Sat Dish and you will also need someone who knows what they are doing, as most so called 'Sat Engineers' out here don't even carry a Sat Finder leave alone know how to use one, and just elevate and point the dish to 'more or less that's it' kind of installation.

And ask them about changing the 'skew' on the LNB and they will look at you as if you are speaking an alien language!

"just elevate and point the dish to 'more or less that's it' kind of installation".

That's exactly what I did, been working fine for 6 years and saved myself a packet on installation!

If you know what you are doing, then you can get away with it for the most, but do you loose signal when it rains?

Because if the dish isn't aligned correctly then that's what will happen!

Using a Sat finder will ensure that you are locked onto the correct satellite, as there a 16 Astra Satellites in orbit, and you need  to lock onto those at 28.2° east for UK Sat services. It will also allow you to ensure that you can position the dish to obtain the highest, stable signal, as fluctuating signals will also lead to reception problems.

I've been having this same argument discussion with the 'Engineers' that keep trying to 'fix' our community sat system, and almost two years on, we still have problems. Having said that, the system that the promoter installed is sub-standard and hopefully we can get rid of our illegal president this year at the AGM, change Administrators and then get it sorted out.

If not, then I'm going to put a dish up on my roof terrace!

If you are going to DIY, then there is a great guide at UK Satellite TV.

When it rains, and there's surface water on your dish, it doesn't matter how well aligned it is, you'll get signal problems as the water particles "reflect" the beam away from the LNB. Happens even with smaller dishes. If you can get the wife to stand outside with an umbrella over the dish while it's raining, you should still be able to watch the whole match uninterrupted.

Hi all...

Just a quick addition to the thread...on Monday 2nd August Lidl have a 4 port LNB on offer at 17.99€. So if you have a single sat dish you can feed up to four sat receivers...also on offer are a Free to Air Sat receiver for 39.99€,  HDMI cables for 4.99€ and and a 4Gb micro SD card with adaptor for 9.99€.

So for those who are independent of communal areas heres a chance to have sat TV in up to four rooms....at a relatively low cost.

Incidentally, from practical experience, on Astra 2D at 28.2E, it is possible to receive some signals from the UK on a 80cm dish but these will break up after about 8pm. Setting up an 80cm dish in azimuth is relatively easy using a Satfinder (Maplin) but elevation is very tight just a fraction off will lead to signal loss. With a larger dish (1.8m or greater) it's a lot easy because of the stronger signal capture.

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OK, how many people had to look up "azimuth"?

A few months ago I picked up a Ross sat tv kit from a pile next to the checkout at Homebase for £80. I think they had them in for the world cup. It has a 65 cm dish. When i got back to Spain (Villanueva de la Vera, Caceres) I bolted the bracket/dish to an upright post on my porch, took ten minutes. The instructions recommended using dishpointer.com . - click on the google earth template and it gives you the direction, elevation, and the amount you must turn the LNB thingy which sends the signal to your receiver box. Another ten mins tops. Just needed a compass to get the general direction, common sense to get the elevation roughly right, ie 22% and then wiggle the dish around while my wife watched on the TV for the signal strength number which was displayed. Finally twist the LNB to get the best reception. I played around with a few different satellites they recommended and settled for one which gives me about 1000 stations. Of which twenty are English language news programs, from Sky, BBC, China News, Bloomberg, Cnn, Russia TV, etc. The rest are European stations, not of a lot of use, but fun to flick through if bored.