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Hi all,

       Anyone tried the sat dish set up from Lidl, and are they any good.

Thanks

Sean P, a good post plus even thou I have the magic eye at home in the bedroom I would not have put two and two together for the secret box idea thanks for that, Im off to look on e-bay for a dish I still have my old box from when we upgraded to S+.

Marc

Quote: Originally posted by The Welder10 on 04/4/2009

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Hi all,

       Anyone tried the sat dish set up from Lidl, and are they any good.

 

Thanks

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Yes they are, I took mine to Brittany last year and it worked well. You may need to improvise (weld up?) a support bracket as the supplied items are a bit pp.

The smaller the dish the less demanding they are to align, I can usually set mine up in 5 mins or so.

Remember however, you have to have line of sight to the south east, any trees, hedges, bushes etc in the way and you are scuppered.

Mr UM

Hi Sean

Very interesting but not being as familiar with the set-up of a satellite I'm still a little lost. We did try once taking a normal standard dish that sky supplied fitted it on a pole, took our sky receiver and card from home and tried to set it up on site. Kept moving the dish but couldn't receive anything. Any tips?

Len

Tips? The link on my first post is very good about setting up.

1. There must be a line of sight, undisturbed by trees or anything.
2. Get a good satellite compass
3. First off get the pole mounted well
4. Look at the signal meter on the sky menu, under signal test
5. Now, get the dish 45 deg but able to sweep left or right
6. Sweep left and right quite slowly and watch out for the signal meter - it doesnt matter if you see a signal increase, but look for the lock code - if you don't see anything, then increase the height angle by about 1cm - then sweep left and right again

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj1/BigSeanPat/DSCF1293.jpg

7. The network ID and transport stream should show as above link and say locked - anything else isnt the right satellite, although most boxes dont allow you to see any others (on the LIDL kit you can)
8. Once you see these codes, you are in the right area and can 'get' the satellite, now tilt the dish upwards a little, just half a CM at a time and at the same time slowly move left and right a tiny bit until you get the strongest signal - you may have to drop it down if you go to far but keep watching the meter on screen
9. Keep doing this until the signal increases - the diagram above is a good quality signal - and usually about the best you will get, even 50% on both will be fine
10. NOW - my advise is once you have got the angle right, screw the bolts down so the dish mount has this angle. Now when i get on site, all I do is plop the mount on the tripod and do the sweep - the angle is set and fixed. If you cant do that, mark the position on the bracket with tippex or a perm marker

Enjoy..