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- 28e, 19e, 13e, 30w
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Milkybarkid said:A few years ago I had an indoor dish. It was a 1m tied to a computer swivel chair. After a while I got the hang of how far to move it left and right and how to tilt it slightly forward or backward to get sats from 42E to 15W. There were a few others on that forum that many of us visit who reported setting up a Sky minidish inside, some of them fixed to a wooden plinth or attached to a tripod stand etc.
You people were my inspiration. Well, 'inspiration' may be too strong a word - I'd thought about trying a dish indoors before those threads but dishes used to cost a fair bit and it seemed a waste of money if it didn't work. And as it seemed unlikely to work... well you get the idea! You indoor "pioneers" paved the way for numerous other outdoor-challenged satellite hungry individuals! You proved it could be done!
Unfortunately my dish is never gonna be capable of getting much of what you got and I just don't have the room for a metre dish in me bedroom! But, to blow my own trumpet (ooh er) I believe my setup is probably one of the neatest bedroom install the world has ever seen! ;)
I'm tempted to get another one or two if I can find them cheap enough. I also bought one of those dishes for a mate. I had to try it out to see if it worked okay (I bought it s/h) and had the two on the window sill running through a DiSEqC switch with one pointed to Hispasat and the other to Hotbird. It got me thinking! I'm getting Hotbird sorted for the outside dish and I intend to leave the Hispa dish stationary - so it'd be good to have another dish to swing around to 5 west or 5 east when I feel like it. ;)
Milkybarkid said:And if you close the curtains no one can see in the window or see your dish.It's amazing how well it sometimes (but not always) works thru D/G.
Yeah, it works great with my curtains closed! Also works great through my parents' net curtains and their D/G.
Milkybarkid said:Skip even asked some questions at the time about it.
I sure did - here's a belated thanks:-thumbup