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[FredericRobinson]

Various camping stuff from this Sunday, including a satellite TV kit for 60 quid, might be worth a punt

[Printertosh]

Good call.
Reading posts from previous years some people might find the heavy duty tent pegs handy (not too bad on Tertre Rouge campsite).
Fold down bucket would be good for iced beers too

[a.christie]

Heavy duty tent pegs.....................pah!!
Get yourselves a few Timber screws, 22mm tap washers to protect the tent eyes and a 10mm socket and cordless and you`ll never want to bang in another tent peg again. Hope this helps

[surveyor]

FredericRobinson said:

Various camping stuff from this Sunday, including a satellite TV kit for 60 quid, might be worth a punt

I think the sat kit will not work that far south...

[FredericRobinson]

Any reason why not? (I know absolutely nothing about such things, but plenty do have satellite set-ups at Le Mans, although from what I've seen there's a lot of fiddling involved in getting a signal).

[surveyor]

You need a larger dish as right on the edge of the signal at Le Mans

[mikal83]

you'll get fine sky around Narbonne with a 80cm dish mid france vg and LM great but small dish......maybe not

[FredericRobinson]

German Eurosport?

[mikal83]

and other german channels were easy to get all the way down to southern spain. Bundesliga, F1 etc

[kel176506]

I've always wanted to take a small TV to watch the Eurosport feed when at Le Mans so might take advantage of this but could anyone explain a couple of thing that are required to enable this.....

1. You set the dish thing up pointing at the signal etc. do you then plug that feed out of the dish box into the Sky box? Or would a FreeSat TV pick up and be able to search for Eurosport?

2. Is EuroSport free to air like the freeview channels or does it need a special viewing card if it is Sky box required?

3. This maybe obvious but we don't take a motorhome etc. and are a bit more traditional tent campers, so i'm guessing you need a petrol generator running all the time to power said TV and equipment?

I'm trying to decide the value of having a TV there and have seen quite a few people do it, especially when the World Cup/ Euros is on it does feel like it might be well worth having and i like the idea of being able to watch the race more........but is lugging generator etc and the security aspect of having that stuff their worthwhile?

For those that are tenting it, whats others opinion?

[surveyor]

We tried last year. But failed as our dish was too small. Not sure if we are trying again this year - thinking about a laptop tethered to a hotspot with bags of data and a projector. One of the networks down there had good 4g even on the main event.

We briefly got excited after finding a Le Man channel on terrestrial TV. Turned out this was the local community channel...

[Printertosh]

Dish connected to Freesat box needed for free german eurosport, then listen to Radio Le Mans for commentary on FM radio. (The freesat box has to be set to allow all channels not just the UK Freesat ones but it's easy to do that in the settings menu).

We use a large dish with 2 offset receivers so we can pick up uk sky satellite and german satellite on the same dish simultaneously without having to adjust between the 2. Very useful after too much Kronenbourg

Our campsite has electric via very long extension leads so we don't have a problem with power.

[lowdrag]

surveyor said:

You need a larger dish as right on the edge of the signal at Le Mans

We have the standard 90cm dish here at Le Mans and a very good signal on Sky. I'd guess a smaller one might work but then I'm no expert.

[surveyor]

lowdrag said:

surveyor said:

You need a larger dish as right on the edge of the signal at Le Mans

We have the standard 90cm dish here at Le Mans and a very good signal on Sky. I'd guess a smaller one might work but then I'm no expert.

I think the one we tried was about 40cm. No dice.