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Hello,

We are just in the process of buying our first MH (second hand, collect next week)

We want a tv and were wondering if any of you have brought or know anything about satellite dishes, how effective are they, how far through Europe do youpick up UK programmes etc. Any advice/help will be gratefully received and appreciated.

Thank you.

Quote: Originally posted by Drifters on 28/6/2011

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Hello,

We are just in the process of buying our first MH (second hand, collect next week)

We want a tv and were wondering if any of you have brought or know anything about satellite dishes, how effective are they, how far through Europe do youpick up UK programmes etc. Any advice/help will be gratefully received and appreciated.

Thank you.

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Depends where in Europe you want to go and whether you use FTA or Sky. I don't have Sky but with an 80cm dish on a tripod I have got all UK programmes as far east as Lubeck in Germany and in the Italian Lakes. Even when we have run out of UK main programmes we can usually still get BBC News (24) and the BBC Streams which meant we were able to watch the Grand Prix's as far east and north as Rugen Island in north/east Germany on our recent trip.  

David

We have a tripod system for sale if you are interested, have had it in the shed for the last few years. Have a fully automatic jobby - brilliant.

We haev a Sky box, as well as a zehnder receiver, means you can get best of both worlds and more channels you can shake a stick at. Not sure why you want all the channels as I prefer to be outside,

Look at oadpro, they have a great section on TVs & Sats. Can recomend them as well

https://www.roadpro.co.uk/retail/default.aspx

Thank you all for your very helpful/useful comments.

We also like to be outside but as Val points out over winter it is nice to catch up with current events and the odd film of a dark evening.

Like I say, we have only just bought our MH and this is all new territory for us, having just used most of our savings on the MH, we don't want to waste what little we have by rushing out and buying something that may not be right for us.

Thanks to Andy-M for his offer to purchase his old equipment, but for now, until we know exactly what we need, we will hold fire. This was more an exercise into prior knowledge from other members. Invaluable as it is unbiased, tried and tested.

Best Wishes

Travel Safe

Alex

Thanks TTDave,

But I think we need one that can convert to 12v, there appears to be sveral models with duel function.

Regards

Alex