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Hi fimmy had same problems as you with my aldi sat kit,in the end got rid of small sat dish that came with kit, since i have been useing bigger dish no probs at all setting up

John

I use a sky box with my suitcase type sat kit from Maplins. I've found that although it says no satelite signal on Sky chanel 998 I have most if not all the chanels anyway, just try changing it to 101 and see what happens. Sat kit was only £69 and I've used it as far south as the Vendee.

Dave

I used the suitcase one from maplins for a few years, but always found that the wind blew it off aim quite often.  It was difficult to set up as you cannot lock the elevation of the dish while you swing it through the horizontal.

I bit the bullet last week and got one of these sets.

At £75 it's the cheapest set I could find anywhere.  Used it while away last week, very easy to set up with a sky box and did not budge an inch on the included tripod.

Edit.  The tripods with drilled hole for pegging down are £5 extra.

Hi fimmy.

             I like the "Comag" box's, but they also brand for Maplin/Aldi etc, I would go for a 12V model, as it is usualy the built in PSU that fails first on most mains only satellite box's, the 12v adapter that comes with satellite box's are a fairly standard switch mode device, but can be replaced with a linear model, which are more reliable, although more bulky, then of course you have always got the original adapter as a spare. hope that helps.

Andy.

Quote: Originally posted by Vectratot on 03/11/2009

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Just had a Screwfix sales leaflet delivered today and inside is a free to air Sat.System at £39.99. Anybody got one of these? are they any good for caravan

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