Maplin FTA Camping Kit €116

christo82

Saw this in Maplins the other day for €116.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Media/PDFs/A04GG.pdf

Has anyone bought one? Any trouble with such a small dish and all?

Cheers

L1011

I've done Hotbird on the same size dish albeit polymer not metal. No rain margin.

christo82

Would this be any good for just Astra in bad weather conditions?

TheDriver

You'd be surprised what you can get for that money and spend a bit so you don't waste so much time afterwards fixing the blasted thing. If your not going to use it for camping, go get yourself stuff that might cost 180 overall for decent dish and brackets but well worth it in the end.

watty

"camping" is the operative word.

It is for strong signal in good weather. Lidl had the same, and the 2nd time folks were not buying them. The dish is too small. Go for 80cm dish system. Not much extra.

watty

christo82 wrote:

Would this be any good for just Astra in bad weather conditions?

No. It's not good here even in good weather for asta. Will work here in good weather for Sky and in France /Germany etc for Astra in good weather.

If the weather is bad you don't stay camping, you go home or to a B&B

christo82

Alright, I'll keep looking.

Cheers