satalite dish

[andrew_374528766]

just bought a dish from aldi has all that is needed for free view have not been to a site to try it yet just wondered if any one else had used one if there any good or would a digital ariel be better

 

[Woody3]

Er, why do you need to go to a site to try it out? It will work anywhere so just try it out wherever convenient.

Can't quite understand what you are getting at in the last bit, but one thing is certain - there ain't no such thing as a DIGITAL aerial. Any suitable aerial will work with digital TV, presuming you mean Freeview.

 

[Douglas_374404558]

HI! Andrew yes these sets from Aldi are very good for the money i have used one for a few years with very good results have used it from north of Scotland to south of Derbyshire , I use mine with my Sky decoder and get all the channels that i get as if it was in the house ,including all the sports channels .usually takes me about 5 to 10 minutes to set up ,why not try setting yours up at your house before you go away with your van .if more info required get back on here .

cheers Duggie

 

[andrew_374528766]

HI! Andrew yes these sets from Aldi are very good for the money i have used one for a few years with very good results have used it from north of Scotland to south of Derbyshire , I use mine with my Sky decoder and get all the channels that i get as if it was in the house ,including all the sports channels .usually takes me about 5 to 10 minutes to set up ,why not try setting yours up at your house before you go away with your van .if more info required get back on here .

cheers Duggie

great to here youve found them a good product i live in the foothills of the pennines so the dish on the house is above the roof i have tried the portable one at ground level but i think there are to many obstructions so unable to find a signal

 

[SirRogerFFS]

Andrew..... The kit you have bought is ideal for your caravan needs .

First ane foremost they receive free to air it will cover most of the channela you want and a few more .

There are a lot of sites where terrestial signals cant get through so your aerial system wont work

Please dont tbe fooled there is no so such thing as a digital aerial its a high gain suitable for digital regardlaess of whats on the box

Right the system works well as long as you have a clear view of satellite location you will get perfect pictures .

The first time set up is a bit of a pain but once done a couple of times you will find it easy .

Im sure you will get lots of help on here to set it up but as Ive toldmany people if you a problem ask Parksy a Moderator for my E mail address and Ill help you set up

Sir Roger

 

[andrew_374528766]

Andrew..... The kit you have bought is ideal for your caravan needs .

First ane foremost they receive free to air it will cover most of the channela you want and a few more .

There are a lot of sites where terrestial signals cant get through so your aerial system wont work

Please dont tbe fooled there is no so such thing as a digital aerial its a high gain suitable for digital regardlaess of whats on the box

Right the system works well as long as you have a clear view of satellite location you will get perfect pictures .

The first time set up is a bit of a pain but once done a couple of times you will find it easy .

Im sure you will get lots of help on here to set it up but as Ive toldmany people if you a problem ask Parksy a Moderator for my E mail address and Ill help you set up

Sir Roger

thanks very much

 

[raccoon]

Hi Andrew, We got one of them as well afew months ago. They are worth the money. Only the compass is a bit cheap though. I would sugest to you that you connect it up to your home satellite reciever and that will tune all the freeview channels in for you. Then if you have a way of setting the dish up in the garden to a tv then try your setting up of the dish there.

I did that and it means that when you get to your site all you need do is to connect everything up and just move the dish left and right till you get the picture. The hardest setting i found was for the up and down of the dish but once done at home you just lock them screws up.

I tried my old sky unit on the caravan dish with my sky+HD card and it still worked minus the HD ofcourse.

 

[Philspadders]

there is an ebay shop-netgadgets i think that is currently doing a tripod, mesh dish, lnb, and cable for around

 

[Bri2]

Andrew,

I have used this system in its case on top of a table, initialy at home and in the awning with good results.

Just have to be careful you don't knock it. Once you get the hang of setting it up, as others have said, its a good system.

Bri

 

[Trevor_NI]

Hi Guys,

I bought a satellite kit from Melksham Satellites (hope the name is right). It came with dish, receiver (Sky box), sat-finder meter, compass, cables etc. Most useful was a map of the British Isles, showing latitude and elevation grid. This has been a real Godsend ! I can set up in less than three minutes.

One thing that I do is to take my SKY box from home. It appears that your viewing card and box are matched so that if you try to use your card with another box you only get some of the channels.

Hope this helps,

Trevor

 

[Woody3]

Hi Guys,

I bought a satellite kit from Melksham Satellites (hope the name is right). It came with dish, receiver (Sky box), sat-finder meter, compass, cables etc. Most useful was a map of the British Isles, showing latitude and elevation grid. This has been a real Godsend ! I can set up in less than three minutes.

One thing that I do is to take my SKY box from home. It appears that your viewing card and box are matched so that if you try to use your card with another box you only get some of the channels.

Hope this helps,

Trevor

A Sky card and box are only 'matched' if the user has premium channels such as sports or movies. Otherwise any card will work in any box once activated.

 

[sarah647]

I'm pleased to hear that some of you have got one of the Aldi kits and you can actually get it to work! I bought one a few weeks ago but after over an hour of trying to get it working we ended up abandoning the idea, left it at home and spent the week watching the same 4 DVD's.

I understand it was only

 

[flipperNI]

Hi Andrew i cant say how they work on the mainland but i bought one to use in Northern Ireland with my sky plus and couldnt get a peep out of it. It ended up in the skip. Dish was just too small.

 

[Philspadders]

i simply dont understand why people have problems with these aldi and mapln sat systems.

Follow the instructions and they are fine.

If you live near Sheffield and are having trouble drop me post on here and i may be able to help.

 

[sarah647]

I did follow the instructions with mine and I even got a friend who installs satalite dishes for a living to see if he could do anything but none of us could get any sense out of it.

The signal strength is fine its the signal quality that we cannot get to change from 0%.

So I now have

 

[david_374241885]

I use a piece of cardboard with a cheap compass stuck on to it,and the satelite angles marked of , dish stands on carboard pick up arm is turned to reqiured satelite angle, it makes set up so easy,it probably has to be seen to be believed.

 

[DerektheSecond]

Hi I bought on of these kits from Lidl when they were about

 

[sarah647]

Just had a search and it looks like im not the only person who has problems getting the Aldi kit to work. Seem to very mixed reviews. Going to give it one more try then im taking it back. My concern is I will spend even more hours getting it to work at home then I will have to go through it all again when on site.