Help with dish purchase

[Johnny72]

Hello,
I live in Brussels Belgium, and I need to buy a satellite dish to ensure reception of SKY HD on Hotbird.

I cannot install a normal dish as it is not allowed

I used to have, 8 years ago, a particularly shaped dish (I attach a photo) , which ensured good reception but at the time I did not have sky HD.
My first question is:
- does anybody knows brand and model of this dish at the easiest solution would be to buy the same again.
It is smaller to comparable dishes and ensures good reception and looks less like a sat dish. I had it installed on a stand on the balcony.

Another option could be to buy a "flat" dish such as the selfsat H21 d4. But I am not sure it will ensure good reception. Also I have only one cable getting into the apartment and this dish has no SCR option.

any advise?

Many thanks for your help and I hope I have posted in the right section.


Johnny

 

[Captain Jack]

Sky Italy, I assume? A Squish or Selfsat flat dishes will do what you want. They work well enough in strong signal areas.

 

[Johnny72]

Squish

many thanks for your reply. yes Indeed Sky Italy. Will the squish dish support SCR?

 

[Captain Jack]

It doesn't, just a normal LNB on there. What do you need it for?

 

[Johnny72]

It doesn't, just a normal LNB on there. What do you need it for?

The my sky hd receiver needs two cables to be able to record and I have only one cable going from terrace to the room

 

[sonnetpete]

Selfsat dishes can be supplied with a twin LNB. Amazon.fr stock them...

 

[archive10]

I used to have, 8 years ago, a particularly shaped dish (I attach a photo) , which ensured good reception but at the time I did not have sky HD.
My first question is:
- does anybody knows brand and model of this dish at the easiest solution would be to buy the same again.
It is smaller to comparable dishes and ensures good reception and looks less like a sat dish. I had it installed on a stand on the balcony.

That looks like a Cahors (earlier known as Visiosat) Bisat. It's a multifocus dish, with support for multiple LNBs.
And it's relatively large.
But is still looks like a dish - it's just elongated.

Not really a small dish.
But I don't think you need a large dish like that (unless you want to point *through* the railing as in your picture).
In Brussels, I think you can do 13E (aka Hotbird) on a really small dish - square dish or not.
And HD is same same as SD - same signal, just different formats.

Gibertiny does a 40 cm one. You can paint it black, or any colour you like to make it hide against a wall or something (car spray-paint from DIY autoparts shop will do). It's really tiny - and if you paint it, say, dark grey or brown, it's less noticeable.
You can even get camouflage covers that look like, well, plants, rocks, nothing at all like dishes - and they're all just plastic and will hide your dish while taking (almost) none of the signal.

 

[archive10]

many thanks for your reply. yes Indeed Sky Italy. Will the squish dish support SCR?

If you do go for a small "normal" dish - any SatCR / Unicable LNB will work. As long as your reciever supports it...

 

[rolfw]

Any twin LNB dish and a stacker-destacker will do the job.