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Have a look here lidl portable satellite receiver 
and here Lidl Suitcase Sattelite back agian

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Wizard

Hiya Just a question to you people who have satelite dishes, we dont have satelite at home, but want to know if we should buy one for the van? If we bought a dish in a case for away what channels would we get without subsciption?  Would we get the normal 5 channels or more - like digital?  Dont laugh at my daft question...

Cheers Shirley

Hi,

you don't get some of the ITV, channel 4 or 5 channels on the free satellite boxes, but you will get them with a free sat from sky. (which you pay a one off charge for)

Mike

Shirley and Steve,

Not sure about the suitcase systems,but you can get dishes and boxes from ebay and car boots etc and would receive a number of channels inc bbc 1,2,3,4 and radio channels.

hope this helps

steven

Quote: Originally posted by rugrat2 on 12/7/2007

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Dish in suitcase systems are for free to air sats only like eutelsat at 13 deg east they will not recive sky digital waste of money, buy a second hand sky box and a free to air card and get a sky dish with ground mount and your sorted

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Actually the suitcase systems will receive a range of satellites inc Astra flight 2 at 28.2E. This enables you to receive all the Free to Air channels such as BBC1, 2, 3, 4 and News 24 plus the ITV channels but not Channel 4 or Channel 5, both of which have access controlled via a viewing card and unfortunately the receivers supplied dont have card slots. Incidentally on the last trip out I noticed that Film4 and Film4+1 were available.

A good source of information for what you can receive free is http://www.lyngsat.com/freetv/United-Kingdom.html.

Hi

A good source for all satellite information is www.satelliteforcaravans.co.uk

Tyreman

Chat up a sky dish fitter - watch for the van parked nearby.  He'll fix you up with a second hand sky box, decoder card, dish,lnb etc for a small casher.  You'll need a short bit of alloy tube - bit of scaffold will do. This replaces your jockey wheel on site (presume you're a caravanner) and the fixer will do the rest.  Best to buy a satellite finder but not essential.

See www.satelliteforcaravans.co.uk for all the info/tips/advice/links you'll ever need including use abroad etc

Whats a free to air card and what cost would it be?

I have an old Sky box so what would i need to complete set up.

Thanks in advance!

I got my free to air card from Sky , rang them up and asked for one , the cost was £20 , this was about 3 years ago , so wether the price has changed i'm not sure .
I think this is the one i had Click_here

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Wizard