Dishes on holiday

**sat200** · 10-09-2005

the orange dish is a televes 1.8m prime focus i live about 2 min walk from televes uk, and buy alsot of stuff there for my satellite shop

Originally Posted by gameboy

Haven't been around recently, I was on holiday in Spain for Easter, posting a few pictures take from my recent visit.

The orange dish was in a holiday park, where the visitors from all round Europe mounted lots of different size dishes to anything that would hold them steady.

On the same site was the tiny black dish on the roof of a caravan.

The one on the balcony must lose some signal from the bars?

My family think I'm nuts going round taking pictures of satellite dishes on holiday - I think they're right!

If anyone collects any more feel free to add them...

**sat200** · 10-09-2005

hi the white/gray dish is made concentric dish i use to sell them in my shop upuntill 2001

Originally Posted by rolfw

Nothing much exciting over here in France, but these are the two old dishes I re-tuned for my sister near Chartres, both on 28.2E for her two Sky digital receivers, didn't have a twin at the time.

***closetosoton*** · 12-09-2005

Originally Posted by deepbluesky

Nice picture closetosoton
In Greece of course many people are willing to pay the 50? per month for Nova....

well, compared to Tenerife, a bish of a dish-haven, Greece didn't seem big on dishes, or keen on big dishes. this is the only pic I got for you - and was indicative of most of what I saw, small dishes pointed at 13E for nova. this was the hotel dish which pipped inot our room 9 channels of fuzzy images...the odd 1M dish looked a little more west, maybe 30W, but not sure. the most amusing one i saw was a 1M solid dish next to a caravan on a campsite that some germans had lugged all the way on holiday with them, inlcuding tripod - probably just for 19.2E german stuff. personally i go on holiday to get away from it all, but it seems portable satellite is taking off in the world of camping & camper vans & the like....

cts

***deepbluesky*** · 12-09-2005

Where in Greece have you been to closetosoton ?

***closetosoton*** · 12-09-2005

Originally Posted by deepbluesky

Where in Greece have you been to closetosoton ?

finikounda, peleponese.
www.finikounda.com/
cts.

***deepbluesky*** · 12-09-2005

I see. Well i've never been there only in Kalamata and that is 10 years ago. As i can see in the map this seems to be a village between Methoni and Koroni.

If you want to see lots of small and big dishes you gotta go to Athens, Thessaloniki and all major touristic centers like Corfu, Crete, Zakynthos. A quite high amount of smaller dishes can be found in the town of Xanthi and Komotini (Northeastern Greece) where many turkish speaking people live.

***closetosoton*** · 13-09-2005

Originally Posted by deepbluesky

I see. Well i've never been there only in Kalamata and that is 10 years ago. As i can see in the map this seems to be a village between Methoni and Koroni.

correctomundo

If you want to see lots of small and big dishes you gotta go to Athens, Thessaloniki and all major touristic centers like Corfu, Crete, Zakynthos. A quite high amount of smaller dishes can be found in the town of Xanthi and Komotini (Northeastern Greece) where many turkish speaking people live.

sounds about right, although i try not to go looking for them! i was surprised that far south how many albanians where working there for the season, not that i spotted any specific 16E installations - a bit hard to 'spot' compared to 13E - i.e. not much in it!

-cts

***deepbluesky*** · 15-09-2005

Albanians work all over Greece since 1990 mostly for less money than Greeks would, the usual immigration problem in the EU. There are quite a lot and since their PayTV is cheap i hear about more and more customers. A friend of mine in Megara west of Athens told me about that because he is working in a TV shop.

Let's return to the dish photos

**Analoguesat** · 08-10-2005

Finally got round to finding our Bulgaria pics out. Taken in August 2002 here on the first pic notice the White Stork perched on the pole, (theres hundreds of them around) the Moskovitch parked on the road, (hundreds of them around too!) the state of the road (pretty typical for rural Bulgaria, and the sensitively sited satellite dish on the roof....

**gameboy** · 08-10-2005

Now that's a big dish - hope they don't get as high winds as we get in Jockland!

**Analoguesat** · 08-10-2005

Heres a typical scruffy block of flats in the Bulgarian village of Singel. Theres a rusty steam loco dumped in the adjacent railway yard! (I can provide a pic if anyones interested).

***steffan_st*** · 08-10-2005

Shot these pics during my vacation in Scotland,this is from a filling station on the west coast.

***steffan_st*** · 08-10-2005

Here's another dish at a supermarket that looks just the same.The feed shure looks interesting.

Any idea what they use these dishes for?!?

**rolfw** · 08-10-2005

I think that all of the Esso garages in the UK have similar two way setups.

permalink · 09-10-2005

Local Coperative shops have the same here. Send and receive, stock levels, price changes etc etc.

**Topper** · 09-10-2005

Originally Posted by JuMbuCk

Local Coperative shops have the same here. Send and receive, stock levels, price changes etc etc.

More importantly EFT downloads.... these days one doesn't have money in the till only dosh in the FILE... if it doesn't go to the bank then you don't have money in the bank

Likvid · 09-10-2005

Prodelin VSAT dishes with transmit.reject filter in OMT, nothing special, most international corporations have these on their offices to communicate thru IP or Frame Relay in one big corporate LAN.

***closetosoton*** · 07-11-2005

Just come back from Egypt (Dahab, Sinai peninsula), dishes pop up on the poorest looking of houses sometimes, sorry no pics - what was I thinking? Mostly 1-1.2M prime focus looking at the sky....

-cts

**T_G** · 07-11-2005

Ahhh Dahab.....wonderful memories....Where else did you go?

**Topper** · 07-11-2005

Originally Posted by T_G

Ahhh Dahab.....wonderful memories....Where else did you go?

Wonderful mameries er memories sorry

**Analoguesat** · 07-11-2005

Originally Posted by closetosoton

Just come back from Egypt (Dahab, Sinai peninsula), dishes pop up on the poorest looking of houses sometimes, sorry no pics - what was I thinking? Mostly 1-1.2M prime focus looking at the sky....

-cts

No pics?? call yourself a satellite enthusiast?

***closetosoton*** · 08-11-2005

Originally Posted by Analoguesat

No pics?? call yourself a satellite enthusiast?

erm, no, not a single one, i was too busy doing this and this:

i'll have to go back. infact i'm planning too already, and this time i can make a better job, actually i tell a lie i took some video coverae too, with an old camcorder i picked up from work (£20!) which no doubt I can extract some footage. watch this space.

Originally Posted by T_G

Ahhh Dahab.....wonderful memories....Where else did you go?

just dahab, swiftly via sharm el sheik airport...

**T_G** · 08-11-2005

Is that you in the picture?

***Robbiewright*** · 23-01-2006

This is a photo I took in Cairo. i hope they remember to take it out before the roof goes on.

**rolfw** · 23-01-2006

Is that your bike in the foreground Robbie?

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