#Satgear easyfind system tv
However, this is where “awareness” comes into play, the satellite cluster we need for our UK TV is fortuitously located at the most Easterly side of the band of satellites likely to be found.
The latter identifies the correct satellite has been found, rather than the audio units that typically respond to any signal. Given a little aptitude, awareness and patience the audio satellite finders are anything but "a waste of money", they indeed save 90% of the investment in the more sophisticated units like the Primesat 500 and its clones. "Don’t waste your time or money on the cheap buzzer things." Coverage in the UK/Eire is saturation everywhere. Anything outside that area will require VERY careful dish alignment to ensure a reliable signal, and going down the west and for most of the south will be unusable. As you will not be able to record on your newly acquired box see if they have a 'multi-room' box which is much smaller and very much lighter but is otherwise identical in operation.įinally if using abroad note that the footprint covered by UK public service broadcasts (BBC, ITV etc) sits roughly NW-SE across France with the southerly limit on the west being around the Vendee and in the SE roughly around Lyon. If you need to buy a Sky box try your local branch of Cash Converters where you will get same for about £10 with remote, mains cable, and a good guarantee. However don't try to align the dish using the Sky box signal/quality indication as the are notoriously deaf and slow to respond to adjustments.
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If you have an Android phone download a copy (free) of Satellite Director which not only helps with the azimuth (rotational direction) but also shows where the bird is in the sky so that you can avoid trees.Ī Sky+HD box with either an expired viewing card or a Freesat-from-Sky viewing card (once of £25) is a good option as it gives many more channels than a Freesat box. As already suggested an in-line signal finder (about a fiver from Aldi or Lidl when on offer) is very useful. You will likely need a couple of combination (ring + open ended) 10mm spanners to adjust the dish inclination.You will also need some good ground pegs to hold the feet down as a dish at even 1m high represents a significant wind loading. My original tripod was a worklight stand without lights from Bricoman for about €12: I have since got a lightweight Konig on eBay for about £20 but it is easier to use.Ī good idea is to take with you some 4mm and 5mm wingnuts - such things are unknown in France - to use on the dish mounting U-bolts.
Leroy Merlin do a good range as do Bricoman. Generally speaking a 60cm ovoid dish complete with LNB and 10m of cable is cheaper and more easily obtained in DIY sheds in France than in the UK.