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<blockquote data-quote="xerxes" data-source="post: 45829" data-attributes="member: 176073"><p>Hi LairyLarry,</p><p></p><p>Do you really mean "Free to Air" - or "Free to View"?</p><p></p><p>You don't need any sort of card at all for "Free to Air", but you do for "Free to View". </p><p></p><p>"Free to Air" includes the BBC channels, Sky News, 4 music channels, and a whole load of bottom-of-the-barrel stuff, like the direct selling channels.</p><p></p><p>"Free to View" includes ITV, Channel 4, and Five.</p><p></p><p>These days, if you want the "Free to View" channels, you're going to have to subscribe to SKY - no way round it.</p><p></p><p>The good news is you should be able to pick up the <u>Sky</u> channels with your mini-dish, with a new card, with no problem in Darmstadt.</p><p></p><p>The bad news? I'd think you stand no chance at all of picking up the BBC and the "Free to View" channels with your minidish and LNB.</p><p></p><p>The problem is these all transmit from Astra 2D with a very weak signal to a "tight footprint" centered on the UK. To receive them in Darmstadt you're going to have to replace you're mini-dish with a bigger one - probably about 80cms, and your LNB with a sensitive, low noise one.</p><p></p><p>How easy is it to do? Well, spurred on by the likes of RolfW last year when the BBC switched to Astra 2D I did it all myself. Much easier than I was expecting. Bought everything I needed from ebay.de, and actually managed to sell my mini-dish and LNB to someone down in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (in the deep south). Didn't cost that much - about 90 Euros I think - much cheaper than having it done "professionally".</p><p></p><p>If you need more details, I can let you have them.</p><p></p><p>Xerxes</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xerxes, post: 45829, member: 176073"] Hi LairyLarry, Do you really mean "Free to Air" - or "Free to View"? You don't need any sort of card at all for "Free to Air", but you do for "Free to View". "Free to Air" includes the BBC channels, Sky News, 4 music channels, and a whole load of bottom-of-the-barrel stuff, like the direct selling channels. "Free to View" includes ITV, Channel 4, and Five. These days, if you want the "Free to View" channels, you're going to have to subscribe to SKY - no way round it. The good news is you should be able to pick up the [U]Sky[/U] channels with your mini-dish, with a new card, with no problem in Darmstadt. The bad news? I'd think you stand no chance at all of picking up the BBC and the "Free to View" channels with your minidish and LNB. The problem is these all transmit from Astra 2D with a very weak signal to a "tight footprint" centered on the UK. To receive them in Darmstadt you're going to have to replace you're mini-dish with a bigger one - probably about 80cms, and your LNB with a sensitive, low noise one. How easy is it to do? Well, spurred on by the likes of RolfW last year when the BBC switched to Astra 2D I did it all myself. Much easier than I was expecting. Bought everything I needed from ebay.de, and actually managed to sell my mini-dish and LNB to someone down in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (in the deep south). Didn't cost that much - about 90 Euros I think - much cheaper than having it done "professionally". If you need more details, I can let you have them. Xerxes [/QUOTE]
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