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Sky & Freesat fringe reception
Astra 1N chat - January 2012
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<blockquote data-quote="Satellite74" data-source="post: 791856" data-attributes="member: 379688"><p>definitely true. And you always run the risk of having to deal with a council bureaucrat who will make it their personal business to try and suck the fun out of it completely for you. Not to get into too much detail, but a friend's landlord once wanted to repaint the front of the house (19th century Gründerzeit building with elaborate stucco ornaments), and he thought he'd add a splash of colour and paint it in a kind of pale blue... he was denied permission and told to do it in a colour more similar to the old historic light grey...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I would probably try that too... nobody wants to be called a xenophobe these days... however, it's a tricky business, because as a foreigner Article 5 of the German Constitution (the right to freedom of information) applies to you too, and numerous court decisions have clarified that a landlord cannot categorically keep a foreigner from receiving their home country's television channels... but a compromise needs to be found if the landlord or other tenants/flat owners take offence at a very visible dish. In one recent case, the court ruled that as a compromise, the foreign tenant was allowed to mount a dish on the roof of the building at their own expense.</p><p></p><p>The path of least resistance, however, would probably indeed be a clear transparent dish... or mounting the dish horizontally, like I suggested above... I think I've even seen special satellite dish stands somewhere for horizontal operation...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Satellite74, post: 791856, member: 379688"] definitely true. And you always run the risk of having to deal with a council bureaucrat who will make it their personal business to try and suck the fun out of it completely for you. Not to get into too much detail, but a friend's landlord once wanted to repaint the front of the house (19th century Gründerzeit building with elaborate stucco ornaments), and he thought he'd add a splash of colour and paint it in a kind of pale blue... he was denied permission and told to do it in a colour more similar to the old historic light grey... I would probably try that too... nobody wants to be called a xenophobe these days... however, it's a tricky business, because as a foreigner Article 5 of the German Constitution (the right to freedom of information) applies to you too, and numerous court decisions have clarified that a landlord cannot categorically keep a foreigner from receiving their home country's television channels... but a compromise needs to be found if the landlord or other tenants/flat owners take offence at a very visible dish. In one recent case, the court ruled that as a compromise, the foreign tenant was allowed to mount a dish on the roof of the building at their own expense. The path of least resistance, however, would probably indeed be a clear transparent dish... or mounting the dish horizontally, like I suggested above... I think I've even seen special satellite dish stands somewhere for horizontal operation... [/QUOTE]
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