Watching the race from campsite, best solution?

[TackleburyUk]

I have been tasked by our group to try and sort a way of watching the race and the football on Saturday night.

Personally I would rather watch paint dry than the football but we have all been given tasks and this is mine....

Does anyone know, or can suggest the best way of doing this?

I have a spare sky box, I know you can pick up freeview on this but I don't have a spare dish.

I also wondered if I could stream it from the UK, I have a slingbox so could connect to my uk based box and stream Eurosport. Will the network support a decent 3G signal on Vodafone or 3?

I have read a few forums on PH but Im looking for a sure-fire, hopefully sub 100 solution!

Any advice will be gratefully received.

Tack

[Rick Cutler]

Where are you staying first of all!

I wouldn't stream racing while there, A. Data is hopeless during the race as the transmitters can't cope with the volume of people.

3G is also very expensive as although Vodafone allow you to take your UK data plan with you for 2 a day, a football match will use about 1gig of data, most vodafone contracts have a limit of 2gb a month!

I would search ebay and get yourself a cheap large dish, the bigger the dish the easier. Take your sky box and viewing car and set that up. You would obviusly need generator or access to power though.

[The Tea Boy]

for the football, they are showing it on the big screen/stage where the concerts are being held after the last band are on! so should be a good area to sit down and watch etc if you want to see the game.

Matt

[TackleburyUk]

Hi Rick,

Mason Blanche!

We have a 10 gb & 2 gb plan so plenty of data but as I supected the network probably won't support it.

Looks like I need a dish and tripod.....

Thanks

[nsi]

Maplin sell dishes in suitcases. Designed for camping or travel. You will need a way to set the angle etc. maybe a signal strength meter (or maybe the box has that built in?)

[angry jock]

PM'd you Tack

[TackleburyUk]

angry jock said:

PM'd you Tack

Thanks chap.

Fire me off your number and i'll be in touch and pop over to say hi.

Tack

[RobbyJ]

I bought this dish:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131115679704

and this tiny decoder:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171119473248

and a 10m cable from the same seller selling the dish.

I hooked it all up last week and using a free app called Dish Align had it all working in 20 mins, will be much faster next time I have to do it. I'm using an old 22" monitor with HDMI as the screen with some PC speakers for sound.........contemplating taking my projector too, the back of the gazebo has projector screen written all over it!

[TackleburyUk]

Love the dish, could use that in the other halfs motorhome!

[OvalOwl]

Watch out if you are relying on a dish to receive BBC1 off satellite. The powers that be have put the BBC stuff on a narrow beam and so you may need a bigger dish than here in Blighty.

However according to this http://robssatellitetv.com/astra-2e-reception-map-... you should be OK with a 60cm dish.

[TackleburyUk]

I'm planning on getting Eurosport, uk signal I guess.

I've also read that the German feed should work too?

Failing that it's sky movies!!

[LeoZwalf]

You have a PM sir

[johnhere]

You will need:-
A dish with LNB pref mounted on a tripod (the bigger the dish the better, more so in bad weather).
A Sky box decoder, Sky card that has Eurosport 1 & 2 matching the box (you can match the card to the box through Sky's web site).
A TV
Power to run the above.

Dish will need a clear view towards the satellite.....no trees and does not move as in wind.

HINT
Look for others that have set up a working dish and copy their settings.