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Do any of you have a satelite dish etc that you take away with you.  If so what make or model do you recommend.

Just asking because we're thinking of getting one. 

At the moment we use freeview but cant always get a good picture

Hi,

we have a Lidl putchased lit, but it is identical to the Maplins one. About £60 or so complete. At the moment you cannot get Ch4 and 5, but all other "Free to view" are available.

As long as you have a clear line of sight to the SSE it works really well.

Mr U-M

I have recently purchased all the bits I need but have not used it in anger yet! I have tried it in the back garden and to my surprise I actually got it to work! This is a good place to look http://www.wizardsatellite.co.uk/ I suppose I spent about £160 and got receiver, dish (64cm) tripod, signal indicator and compass plus cable. Will try it for real the end of next week!

David

I got my box and from freecycle for nothing and bought a dish and tripod from here.

You can buy a brand new minidish and LNB for around £12 off ebay.

Whilst they are very nice, you do not need a £100 Maxview dish to receive sat TV in your van !

There's a bit about it here

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=8&TopicID=16400&PagePosition=1&ThreadPage=1&ReturnPage=Search&search=&searchIn=

Be aware that the 'lidl' kits dishes are not storm proof. The sky dishes have holes so they dont get moved about in heavy wind. The lidl kits are solid so are prone to being blown off course. Ive used both and found the £20 ebay triax dishes are the best and stay put in wind.

To get all the free channels (and your local stations) you need a sky box from ebay and a £20 freesat card from sky.

Here are some pics in case you are interested of it mounted.

http://s268.photobucket.com/albums/jj1/BigSeanPat/

There is little things that have got bad press on these forums more than setting up satellites. Its dead easy - takes me about 10 mins to fine tune it all in.