Sky in Berlin

robert muldoon

A friend of mine has a place just outside Berlin, Germany and wants to instal a Sky dish. I know what you have to do to get a box here etc,does anyone who knows Berlin well can tell how to go about getting a suitable dish installed. This is a house in the country not an appartment.

Thanks

Sam Radford

Have you checked the map to determine what size dish is required?
http://www.beitinger.de/sat/astra_2d_english.html
Looks like 1.5m. So dig a hole, pour 1cm of concrete, stick a 2" diameter pole in it and mount the dish.

wil

Far be it for me to question your figures but a 1.5m dish on a 0.05m dia pole held in the ground with "0.01m" of concrete?
I suspect you may be an order or 2 of magnitude astray. Otherwise in a light breeze it would be doing Elvis impressions:eek:

www.satelliteforcaravans.co.uk
also gives some useful info on Astra2 reception abroad

byte

I thought he meant a cubic metre?

fat-tony

A cubic metre is a LOT :Dof concrete. A centimetre is too little . Somewheres in between maybe?

wil

And who'd know better than a Soprano.:D
Granted he may have meant a cubic metre, unlikely to shift that.
But on the continent a cm is a centimetre. We (with the US and UK) on the other hand are inclined to mix and match (excuse the pun) our units which can lead to the odd annoyance such as losing a $250million Mars Climate Orbiter.:eek:
m³ may be abbreviated as cu m, m3, m^3 or m**3 where superscripts are not available but never cm the SI abbreviation.
Pedantic perhaps but avoids confusion
Bottom line is a well secured sturdy support would be recommended