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You are not wrong there - and the bloody dish in the Maplin kit is brilliant white - sticks out like a sore thumb. Other than that it seems to do the job. Never had a Sat STB so can't compare. Will see me through until Free HD Sat is more established and better boxes come out over the next...

Thanks for all the advice. I have also learnt a whole lot more in the last 24 hours by trial and error and with the help of some other websites. As there may be people as equally baffled as me, I'll try and explain it how I found it because there are a few things to do. Start with this...

OK found lygnsat and it appears that Mr Boring here needs 28.2E where I will pick up all the Free to View Sat for UK and what HDSat BBC has to offer at the moment (and I can see from their listings its not much !) I guess I just tell my competant installer 28.2E, and I have home free? I'd...

Ok thanks for that but .... Is the BBC HD also at 28E? Huh, hum. and what are 19E and 28E? 19 degrees East? And if so at what inclination? And do we use grid north or magnetic north? (Yup - jail bait I am!)

Be kind to me, I am the SatelliteVirgin! Never had any kind of dish but have jumped in and bought a Foretec Star Passion from Maplin with dish after I saw my own TV with an HD source in a shop and I realised what I am missing. But I am a tight wad and will not pay for SkyHD (or Sky come to...