PORTABLE SATELLITE DISH

[ChristineandAlan]

HELLO EVERYONE,we are going to france in june,can anybody advise me which is best system to buy,suitable for spain aswell as my wife loves watching the soaps. hoping there somebody out there to help us A BIG THANK YOU ALAN P/T

 

[JTQ]

How far south in Spain?

This starts to make a real difference on the size dish needed for reliable reception.

Down to the foothills of the Spanish Pyrenees a 65CM dish works in good climatic conditions but signal breaks up in thunderstorms etc.

 

[Sproket]

You can have a look on HERE you will get an idea of what you require.

You can get a Folding arm satellite dish on e-bay.

You will need to take a look on this site satellite for caravans

 

[Sproket]

If you all ready have a sky box at home you can use take it & use that.....

 

[ChristineandAlan]

HI SPROKET.thanks very much for info looks like i have a lot of choice.looks like 90cm dish to be on the safe side to cover all europe thanks again ALAN P/T

 

[ChristineandAlan]

HI SPROKET.thanks again unfortunely i cable tv with a v box ALAN P/T

 

[ChristineandAlan]

HI JTQ, i am jumping the gun really if everything goes o/k i will go to spain next year.im trying to kill 2 birds with one stone i didnt want to buy the wrong one,sproket has put me on the right track thanks ALAN P/T

 

[JTQ]

Dishes themselves are cheap enough to have two; one for the UK and well down into France but of a size that's easier to live with. And another just for the long haul that whatever way you look at it is a size that's going to have storage issues.

Then just change over the LNB and stand. In fact a second LNB need not cost more than

 

[Woody3]

And another tip - that I keep pushing on here - is to wait until you get to France to buy your dish. For a 80cm dish (a 'standard' size) in the UK you will pay

 

[ChristineandAlan]

HI WOODY thank you very much for your information, i would not of thought of buying one in france.it must have taken you ages to write it all out. A BIG THANK YOU AGAIN ALAN P/T

 

[ChristineandAlan]

HI JTQ. we only want to use the dish abroad we have a digital aerial on the caravan,we can store the dish on the fixed bed we are looking at 85 to 90cm that way we should be covered everywhere THANKS AGAIN ALAN P/T

 

[TopCat1]

Hi, I know it's a bit late but I think your going to be lucky to get the BBC or ITV much into Europe. Both have changed to broadcast on the Astra 1 satellite I think. I know for definate that we cannot recieve either on a large 3m dish on the villa in Alicante. Have a look at the following website. It has some 'footprint' maps that will help you I think. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/findasat/satlocate.html