Satelitte Dish
Discussion
There are lots of historical threads on this. You may want to check them out.
Some suggestions :
Get a decent 80cm Dish and Mount, some campsites have trees or obstructions.
Get someone who knows how to align it well. We have an ex-Sky installer and he still had problems aligning it manually.
German Eurosport is still FTA and you can get Radio Le Mans for audio via an FM Radio. This is what we do.
Have spares for connectors and cables etc.
Some suggestions :
Get a decent 80cm Dish and Mount, some campsites have trees or obstructions.
Get someone who knows how to align it well. We have an ex-Sky installer and he still had problems aligning it manually.
German Eurosport is still FTA and you can get Radio Le Mans for audio via an FM Radio. This is what we do.
Have spares for connectors and cables etc.
I found this website handy for aligning dish, especially if you know the campsite well so can spot a few permanent objects to line up with from where you usually camp (we don't have an allocated spot so can usually camp near to the same spot every year)
go to http://www.dishpointer.com/
Type in 47.95, 0.2075 that will get you the circuit
Then drag the green satellite dish to your campsite position
Click 'All Satellites' above map
Then select satellite from dropdown list, the 2 different satellites you'll probably want are 19.2E (free german eurosport) and 28.2E (UK sky)
Then zoom in and out of the picture as big as possible to pick up a tree, pole, building to line up with on the line of sight
Then print out a few maps to follow when you get there (at least one zoomed in and one zoomed out)
Below the map is dish setup data that give you info on elevation, azimuth(?) and LNB Skew but I find that once your pointing in the right direction it's easy enough to find the elevation by watching the signal strength on the set up page of sky box or download a free phone app with an angle measurer but remember if your dish is an offset dish (LNB faces dish) you might need to deduct 22 degrees (or whatever your offset is)
I have twin offset LNB's on a 80cm dish so we can pick up both satellites at the same time without adjusting dish. I've fixed the twin LNB so that once I've picked up the main satellite the other one lines up as well as long as no ones thumped it during the year!
Good luck
go to http://www.dishpointer.com/
Type in 47.95, 0.2075 that will get you the circuit
Then drag the green satellite dish to your campsite position
Click 'All Satellites' above map
Then select satellite from dropdown list, the 2 different satellites you'll probably want are 19.2E (free german eurosport) and 28.2E (UK sky)
Then zoom in and out of the picture as big as possible to pick up a tree, pole, building to line up with on the line of sight
Then print out a few maps to follow when you get there (at least one zoomed in and one zoomed out)
Below the map is dish setup data that give you info on elevation, azimuth(?) and LNB Skew but I find that once your pointing in the right direction it's easy enough to find the elevation by watching the signal strength on the set up page of sky box or download a free phone app with an angle measurer but remember if your dish is an offset dish (LNB faces dish) you might need to deduct 22 degrees (or whatever your offset is)
I have twin offset LNB's on a 80cm dish so we can pick up both satellites at the same time without adjusting dish. I've fixed the twin LNB so that once I've picked up the main satellite the other one lines up as well as long as no ones thumped it during the year!
Good luck
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