Sattalite on a BOAT ??

dom1269

hi i am new to satallite tv and i was wondering if there would be any chance i could recive it on a boat ?? and the most it would move would be about 5 degrees! and another question a have a sky dish with a thompson LNB can i use that for astra 2 28.2E with my Technomate or do i need a diffren LNB ?? thanks for the help!

Robbo

Hi,
Your _Sky dish setup is fine to use with a technomate.

Any movement of the dish even by 5 degrees would mis-align it.

I belive that you can get dish setps designed specifically for boats,
where the dish is aligned automatically. A google search should provide more info.

dom1269

what about if i used 2 LNB's?

rolfw

For what purpose?

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dom1269

to not loose signal when the boat swings out a few degrees and does the satallite have to be bang on ie if it was ment to be at 28.2 and it wa at 27.8 would i still get a signal?

Yeshi

Lol no it cant be anything out it has to be perfect. if you had 2 lnbs how would u switch between the 2?? even if that was posibleit would take ages to switch and by the time you have done that its time to switch again.

As said in an earlier post there is an item like spirit level which will correct it.. and keep the dish in its positition.

rolfw

The dishes for boats have gyro stabilisation, but they are of course not very cheap, click here.

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2cvbloke

Maybe you could construct some sort of pivot & weight system which keeps the dish straight at any angle at which the boat is at, or there are some pretty expensive, but effective, self-adjusting boat & caravan/motorhome dishes which can do the same job...
(rolf beat me to it!!!)

If you're on the canal or river, just sit the dish on the ground, either on a tripod or a pole hammered into the ground when you're moored up...

I've seen a few narrowboats round here which have minidishes and even Lidl or Maplin portable kit dishes fitted, and I guess that they work pretty well on the boats, but there are the odd few on a pole in the ground...