system buying

kebabinho

Hi,

i am lookign to get a setup to recieve satellite tv from the astra satellite (and hopefully if they ever come back, Sky italia and Digitial +).
im not sure what i need on the dish front.
it was suggested a 1 metre dish. how much should i pay for this?
Ive noticed you can get different lnb's. what size/strength (or whatever) should i go for? how much should i pay for this?

regards

kebabinho

rolfw

The most important piece of information for determining dish size, is where you live in relation to the satellite footprint, where are you?

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Lancelot

Hey Rolf ........

Think he mentioned in a previous thread that he'd
'Just bought a house with a S*Y minidish attached'

So fairly local on the scale of things I presume.

L

kebabinho

i dont live in the middle of nowhere. i live near derby

Lancelot

OOOh dear .... leaving youself wide open there.

Good job CH isn't about

If you only want 19E form derby the a 70cm will be fine mate.

Rgds

L

kebabinho

CH?

what about this LNB business? what do i need for that?

Lancelot

Channel Hopper.

You will get to hear more of him I'm sure if you hang around here
for any length of time.

As for the LNB it's down to how much you want to spend.
they have a noise figure in DB and the lower the better.
having said that the Invacom 0.3 can be had for £25
or an MTI 'blue' 0.3 is £15.
Someone said recently that on e*ay they were selling
LNBs for £9 and they were quite good.

Try to get decent cable especially if you have a long run from the dish.
CT100 is recommended.

gameboy

Lancelot - where can you get these prices?

Are they all off Ebay ?

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rolfw

Thanks Lancelot, yes just checked back in the post history to see that.

Worth noting for newbies though, if you are asking for answers to problems or queries about system setups, then the more information you give, the more likely you are to get a good answer. Some of the guys on here alternate between several forums and have pretty busy lives outside the forums, so can't always afford the time to search back through a poster's post history.

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kebabinho

sorry about changing forums and that, wasnt sure where to pos the first time. i have decided to go with the reciever option as opposed the the pc option.

what channels can i expect to pick up if i point at the astra satellite?

Lancelot

@ Gameboy , Wiz**d satellite were doing good deals recently.
worth checking their website,
as for the e*ay thing I think it was a conversation recently on Dudez.

Rgds

L