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hi we thinking of taking our sky reciver with us next year how easy is it to set up we have dish and finder just orderd

I have an already prepared "Idiots Guide" on how to aim a sat dish using a sat finder.

Unfortunately, it is 3 pages long and I have no idea how to include it on here as an attachment.

Any suggestions anyone?

Vin Blanc

Hi Sue.

          Are you going to use your Sky box just in the UK, or are you planning to use abroad, if so which country?.

I've never had a problem in the UK or as far as the South of France. Just get prepared and do a bit of home work.

I use the Maxview 66cm dish on a tripod. The furthest I went was about 40 miles from Spain. Got a great signal.

You do need a bit of patience occasionally. More so in the UK than abroad..

If you carry a laptop go to http://www.dishpointer.com/ when you get on site, put in your location and it will tell you everything that you want to know.

If you do not carry a laptop, before you go on holiday, put in the sites location, blow the screen up and print it out, then you can take that with you. 

thanks for your comments we will only be using it in uk

thaks

http://www.satelliteforcaravans.co.uk/

use a compass find dead south point dish to 140 / 145 degs east of south.keep sat dish vertical in uk.bingo.

have tv on / select  services / select 4 system set up / select 6 signal test / graph shows ..... signal strength / single quality /lock indicator /network id /transport stream.

signal strength = 50 % =ok

signal quality = 50 % =ok

lock indicator = ok = ok

network id = 0002 =ok

transport stream = 07d4 = ok

and you have a good picture and your away.

Hi sue go into Maplins Stoke & buy Satellite beeper (£9.99) works by ear piece beeping when searching for satellite(constant) beep when you find sat beep gets louder left to right then slight up & down until you get strongest beep, have used one of these for 5yrs on free to air sat. i.am now taking my sky box & card as i helped a chap on site find sky with this beeper earlier on this year

john

Always start rotating the dish from east towards south.

Hi niclisem.

                 I did seven years working for Sky, and trust me Sky ain't bothered so long as your monthly subsription keeps rolling in, my dept used to turn a blind eye, to dealers who were obviously, setting up ex-pats in Spain etc, with Sky, and registering the card and kit, to a UK address.

Even though some UK addresses had over a 1000 subscriptions registered to the one uk address.