total novice to satelite

smokeyUK

can anyone recomend a good setup to watch spanish tv or s american tv in spanish language . what i would need and good place to buy from and what is possible to receive as i am in the north esat of england

thanks

spiney

For free Spanish channels in UK, see: www.lyngsat.com/freetv/Spain.html .

Astra1 requires only a small dish, Hotbird slightly larger, Hispasat larger still.

(for some idea of dish size, try googling for images of "astra1 footprint", then "hotbird", then "hispasat").

Most inexpensive free-to-air sat receivers will do, but channels do change, to save constant manual updating a "blind scan" type receiver is useful.

A conditional access receiver may allow card viewing of (some) pay channels, depending on how you "get" the card.

A fixed single dish with "monobloc" lnb antenna will get astra1/hotbird, but for receiving 3 or more satellites a motorised dish is really required!

(for suppliers, see our links pages!).

smokeyUK

thanks for the info i was looking at a motorised 80cm dish that should do the job i take it

spiney

80 cm is ok for astra1/hotbird, but I'm not sure about Hispasat, you really need advice from other people getting that in your area.

(Unfortunately, the Hispa beams very rapidly "fall off", going towards north and east, across the UK).

wallwok

I am 50 miles north of you and I have a motoised 80cm dish, hispasat is perfect and all others around to 53e.

smokeyUK

no probs u will be seting up sat on the weekiend any probs i know where to come cheers

smokeyUK

ok ive got myself a 80cm dish with DiSEqC 1.0 1.2 2.0 & 1.3/USALS with a 0.2 lnb . what is the best value for money receiver avialable with cam slots and what is the best cam to get. i am mostly interested in then hispasat channels

wod

well technomate recievers are good i've got the 1500 ci one and would say go for a dragon cam

smokeyUK

whats the current going price for those units

Oily

Around the £100 mark for a 1500CI+,don't know about the cam

wod

the dragon cams are about 70 ish but worth it

smokeyUK

also what can be picked up using the sky minidish as to channels also can a universal lnb be used with the didgy box runing 2 receivers

rolfw

If you leave the minidish pointing at Astra 28.2 (where Sky UK is), then there is really nothing useful there for a non-Sky receiver and the dish is too small for an offset LNB for a second satellite. You would need a larger dish with perhaps a couple of offset LNBs or a separate dish with a motor.

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smokeyUK

wich sateliite is best to line up as a reference point when setting a 80cm motorised system i am in north east england on coast

Sir Bronking

thor 1w is usually fav

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smokeyUK

right ive bought a tachomate 1500+ receiver how are these to setup

Sir Bronking

ive just inputted technomate 1500+ into search facility and came up with 83 pages of threads.
so i guess that mean's there is plenty of info on this forum if your willing to look

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smokeyUK

thanks for that good read / whats the difference between a patched unit and normal unit ?

rolfw

The patched unit will enable the viewing of some encrypted channels without card or CAM.

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mickeymegabyte

hello smokeyUK,

when you are new at sat messing, try cheap stuff such as a mini dish

I take a mini dish away with me when I work away on nights
I set up a 12v supply to my receiver (dreambox500s) and mini dvd player, from cig lighter in van.
I put mini dish on back seat and with all windows shut have had excellent results on Hispasat 30w,Astra1 19E,Hotbird 13E.
When you practice it only takes 2mins to find these Sats, I've done this in Lockerbie, Scotland to Reading area.

smokeyUK

right i have installed satelite and tachomate 1500 but have few ??? the tachomate has conax embeded cam . what does that do . also wich sytem is beter to use usal or disq mine motor uses both but chich is best . also is there anywhay of getting rid of my sky digy box and use tacho unit . ive tried my subcription card on tacho but no joy

thanks

wod

the technomate 1500 doesn't have conax embedded , its just got a card reader that will read any of the encryptions except sky uk cards

for your sky uk card to work you will need a dragon cam and to put the sky card back in the sky digibox for it to keep getting the keep alive signal

smokeyUK

ive been told by the company i purchsed unit from that has conax patched cam .just wanted to know what it does

wod

arh they patched the reciever then in that case it will open any channels in conax encryption or allow you to use conax card in it

Lancelot

Yes but, only if the keys are known.
Currently there aren't any public keys for any conax package.


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