Dish on balcony

kilasser

IM moving in to a new flat soon. But sadly the complex doesn’t allow sat dishes on the building. I have a balcony and am going to put the dish on the floor of it. Any suggestions on how I could stand it and secure it on the balcony floor. Thanks

Greenman

This might be something to think of!!!

Let us know what happens!!!:)

PK - the king

Why not use an old camera tripod and secure it with lashings?
Or you could hang it off a balcony railing?
Or install it inside (somewhere you won't see it, though)?

kilasser

Thanks for that link Greenman, very useful. I think I’ll use a bin/bucket full of cement and a pole in it and put may $ky mini dish on in. Im in London with an ROI sub so I don’t want to lose it for the sake of not being able to put up a dish, don’t want to miss the GAA over the summer . Thanks also PK for your suggestions.

Lennoxschips

As far as I know, the GAA on RTE is blocked on satellite.

kilasser

'As far as I know, the GAA on RTE is blocked on satellite'

No its not. watched it all last summer here in London and over the last few weeks, Sligo v Roscommon lastweekend.

Lennoxschips

Nice one, I thought Setanta had gotten RTE to block all of their GAA sport on satellite. In the past it was the case that they were scrambled.

BrianD

The GAA on RTE is not blocked on Irish cards.

By the link to "your right" to have a sat dish is an American site and would not apply to Europe. The continentals have sat dishes festooned to their buildings but it seems that the authorities don't like them over here. At the same time they allow one-off housing to destroy the countryside and have the rest of us subsidise them ....

Aquos76

I can confirm that the sunday game is now ON Net2 on the Irish cards. If I am not mistaken this issue was resolved befor the beginning of the championships last year. Maybe someone can correct me if I am wrong.

One thing I did notice though is that Setanta have not started to cover the games this year yet. They did not show the Waterford v Clare 2 weeks ago and they are not showing todays game either.

Mike 1972

it seems that the authorities don't like them over here. At the same time they allow one-off housing to destroy the countryside and have the rest of us subsidise them ....

Well bloody said mate !

seano

How about this for a solution.

Dish lying down

snaps

BBC2 N Ireland show GAA as well sometimes live. If you use the bucket of concrete thing, Make sure the pole sits in the bucket vertically and not on the P**s!

Mike 1972

There are also "non dish" satellite antenne on the market in the form of globes, long tubes and flat panels (like the old BSB "Squarial")

Funnily enough you have to look around quite a bit to find places selling such devices