what have you got

dogz

so what satellite equipment have you got and what do u plan on getting next

i have:

60cm dish for sky digital
60cm dish connected to a uk box with fta card
1.2m on a diseq motor able to revieve channels from 42e to 58w connected to a dreambox 7020
80cm dish fixed to atlantic bird 1 connected to a manhatten dsr5500ci with dragon cam
1.8m dish on a superjack used to recieve channels on 1west 5 east and 7west connected to the dsr with a switch


i want to get a few official cards next as the number of "free":D channels is getting less and less:mad:

Mossy Monk

i have a Sky+ box connected to a dish and thats it

the limitations of living in an apartment block
i guess i am lucky to have 2 feeds into here in the 1st place

Greenman

I have!!!

In the livingroom

Humax 5300 CI connected to 1.2 mt no-name dish for Astra 28.2 east, Triax 1.1 moving 28.2 east to 40 west,Triax 90cm for 19 Astra and Astra 13 east and a Triax 1.1 stand alone for 26 east Arabsat (and thats all for the wfe!!!

Grundig 3000 Irish $ky sub Family Pack connected to Triax 1.1.

Topfield 3000CI pro connected to the Triax 1.1 moving 28.2 east to 40 west,

In the hobby room.

Small Coship FTA connected to 1.2 mt no-name dish for Astra 28.2 east and Triax 90cm for 19 Astra and Astra 13 east.

The great thing about living in a little village where the neighbours aren't bothered what I do or install in the garden!!!

Re new stuff, no plans ATM!!!



The livingroom!!!

dogz

thats 10 dishes right?:eek: you lucky bastard, i thought i was doing great a few years ago with 7

Greenman

dogz wrote:

so what satellite equipment have you got and what do u plan on getting next

i have:

60cm dish for sky digital
60cm dish connected to a uk box with fta card
1.2m on a diseq motor able to revieve channels from 42e to 58w connected to a dreambox 7020
80cm dish fixed to atlantic bird 1 connected to a manhatten dsr5500ci with dragon cam
1.8m dish on a superjack used to recieve channels on 1west 5 east and 7west connected to the dsr with a switch


i want to get a few official cards next as the number of "free":D channels is getting less and less:mad:

Any chance of a few pic's???

Greenman

dogz wrote:

thats 10 dishes right?:eek: you lucky bastard, i thought i was doing great a few years ago with 7

Well actually 4!!!

emaherx

two palcom fta receivers
sky box
skystar 2 pci card in a pc
60 cm sky dish
80cm dish and a diseq motor
55cm torodial dish with 2 dual output lmb's and 3 standered lmb's and 2*4 way diseq switches

i would like to buy a dreambox at some stage

Pal

Sky Digital ( 60cm dish. old Grundig box. Irish card. UK card )
NTL basic cable
Freeview (Goodmans 7 day EPG box)
Hotbird/Astra1 ( 80cm dish. Palcom CI box with a Matrix cam )

byte

I moved home a few months ago and left my 80cm Triax with 3 LNB's (Astra 1, Hotbird, Astra 2) connected to a Manhattan Skyline 3000.

Sadly, in my new home, I just have Sky (Family/Entertainment Pack). I hope to address my lack of foreign TV soon.

BTW, Greenman, that dish farm rocks!

netwhizkid

I have

A 60cms dish for sky digital on 28.2° east,

A 80cms dish for Satellite broadband from skydsl on 8° West (Telecom 2D)

I plan to get a Hotbird setup FTA set-up in the new year, I will porabably use the Satellite broadband dish as romour has it ADSL from Eircom is coming in January to my area :- Hopefully Otherwise i will stick up another dish.

BTW Earthman if Belgium is ever invaded again, your place is likey to be used as a communications HQ. :v: Nice setup too

Greenman

byte wrote:

BTW, Greenman, that dish farm rocks!

Thanks and good luck with your future plans and I hope people post a few more pics!!!

Eurorunner

- 80cm lidl dish feeding golden interstar receiver.
- 80cm lidl dish - with Moteck SG2100 diseqc motor - feeding Skystar 2 pci card.


Will be moving house in the near future and thinking of going bigger - as i cant get feeds at the moment. Only concern I have is setting it up to withstand the elements. I'm struggling with the 80cm at the moment with stronwinds kicking its ass - i cant even imagine the problems that a 1.2m or 1.8m dish would cause in the west of ireland!
Admittedly, a large part of the problem is that the cheapo lidl dish and mount aint up to the task. That said, do any of you have these sort of problems with the bigger dishes?

byte

In my newer abode, the rear of the house faces east, so dishes will be happy around the back, unlike my "home" home!

Unfortunately, I've more pressing issues, the tenents before me had Sky installed (obviously by inhouse Sky team) and they have the dish on the chimney (2 storey house) with cable just run down the roof tiles, the corrugated type, and down the wall! I'm getting bad signals on mainly Eurobird channels, especially for signals with a lot of white in the background!

So I'm gonna have to talk to the landlord about removing dish from up there, put it on the back wall, and run the cabling through the attic at the back, and out again at the front and then down the wall (no cabling inside house to allow for satellite despite being a young house), instead of across the roof! All I need is the ladders!

Then I may just get a pole stuck in the ground and put my 80cm Triax on it, and run it straight to my PC Skystar 2 card.

Macy

At the moment,

80cm Triax, invacom twin, dodgy box and FTV card.
Second feed was going to my lidl box for radio reception, but it died and only managed to find the receipt over the weekend.

Next on the list is a quad to feed into a PC card as well. Very impressed with the analogue turner card, and the recording functions (hauppauge Wintv-pvr 250) so now with ITV going FTA want to add to that. Looking at the Sky Star 1 as next on the list will be new dish, a motor and a CAM.

Quick question, is it possible to use a motor and a switch from the same card/ reciever. i.e. a switch between astra 2 feed and feed from the motorised dish?

Ronan|Raven

1m motorised, gets me from 42east-45west. Hooked upto a dreambox 5620, also have a technomate 5000ci looped through to pick up those weaker signals the dreambox craps out on. Then have an 80cm hooked upto a comag FTA jobby for 28east. And a skystar 1 card hooked upto nothing!

Sparky

just the sky+ and pace FTA box for me, and a sat card in the pc for those hd tests

Tony

I've got nothin

Greenman

Macy wrote:

Second feed was going to my lidl box for radio reception,

Man after my own heart.
My FTA receiver is hooked into a baby FM transmitter on 88.7mhz for around the house and garden, pure heaven to listen to RTE Radio1,
NPR,Raio 4 and Five Live!!! as you are busy doing DIY with walkman on!!!

Greenman

Tony wrote:

I've got nothin

Ye sure!!!!

DMC

Well, this is the sum of my TV.... contrary to opinion, I watch **** all of the stuff!

Folks Place.
Sky+ with Multiroom

Dublin.
Sky Digibox with FTV card
NTL Digital
Lidl reciever (not hooked up at present)

As I would love to setup Astra 1 and Hotbird, unfortunatley, I can't in my house in Dublin and can't justify having it in the folks place, as I dont spend enough time there to do so.

Zaphod

Eurorunner wrote:

Only concern I have is setting it up to withstand the elements. I'm struggling with the 80cm at the moment with stronwinds kicking its ass - i cant even imagine the problems that a 1.2m or 1.8m dish would cause in the west of ireland!

If you go over 1M, then you should consider using either a linear actuator and polar mount, or something like a Jaeger SMR1224 horizon to horizon mount. Diseqc motors aren't the best at coping with winds on larger dishes.

Butterbox

4 dreamboxes all sharing. No stupid digibox.
2 fixed dishes (1 at 28E and 1 at 30W)
1 motorised dish to zap between 19E and 8W

Greenman

Butterbox wrote:

4 dreamboxes all sharing. No stupid digibox.
2 fixed dishes (1 at 28E and 1 at 30W)
1 motorised dish to zap between 19E and 8W

4 Dreamboxes thats alot!! are they all together in one room? when you say sharing do mean on a network?

Any pics???

dmeehan

i've got sky+ with multiroom and the fourth feed goes to an old sky digibox (a grundig) with an ftv card. the sky+ box output is piped around the house via a box in the attic

Greenman

dmeehan wrote:

the sky+ box output is piped around the house via a box in the attic

Are you using a loft box/
Which model?
Are you happy with it?

Bogger77

3 Sky Boxes (2 with FTV cards, one full $ky package) connected to a quad lnb,
1 Comag reciever hooked up to astra1, and astra2 (using diseq switch from the quad lnb), hoping to add hotbird at weekend.

Butterbox

Greenman wrote:

4 Dreamboxes thats alot!! are they all together in one room? when you say sharing do mean on a network?

Any pics???

All in different rooms sharing on an internal network and beyond.
I love my dreamboxes, but the day I start taking pictures of them is the day I will need to think my obsession.

dmeehan

Greenman wrote:

Are you using a loft box/
Which model?
Are you happy with it?

dunno what it is as i havent ventured up to the attic since it was installed 2 weeks ago. but it works, thats the main thing. it also pipes the rte's, tv3 and tg4 of aerial too...

it all seems a bit much considering there are only 2 of us in the house
next step is a tv in the toilets (joking)

Greenman

dmeehan wrote:

it all seems a bit much considering there are only 2 of us in the house

Better looking at it than looking for it!!!

dmeehan wrote:

next step is a tv in the toilets (joking)

Dunno the wife sometimes takes the portable into the bathroom as she soaks!!! Before people say its dangerous, over here in Belgium 240v sockets and light switches are standard in bathrooms!!!r

moc63

100 cm dish on a Moteck SG2100 diseqc motor (45e to 43 w).
Technomate 7750 receiver
2 sky digiboxes one with ftv card other with sky package.
1 skystar 2pci card (rarely used)
Dragon cam
Matrix cam
Conax cam

Whats next?. Sometime to watch it:D

Regards
moc63

Eurorunner

Zaphod wrote:

If you go over 1M, then you should consider using either a linear actuator and polar mount, or something like a Jaeger SMR1224 horizon to horizon mount. Diseqc motors aren't the best at coping with winds on larger dishes.

Yeah, will probably go for an actuator. Didnt go this route last time as I didnt like the idea of having to run yet another cable - to power it.

Greenman

Eurorunner wrote:

Yeah, will probably go for an actuator. Didnt go this route last time as I didnt like the idea of having to run yet another cable - to power it.

I have a 12inch Jaeger actuator, its 7 years old with polar mount attached to a Triax 1.1 meter dish, works very well.
Very happy with it!!!