Need a camouflaged satellite dish for outside or indoor mounting

Psygnosis

Hi,
Looking for a bit of info and where to purchase the required equipment.
Basically the person can't put a dish on the outside of there house and mounting in the back garden is a no go as the whole house blocks the elevation to 28.2 east (think this is the sky setup)

So what he is looking for is as follows.

He is looking for data on camouflaged satellite dish for outside or indoor mounting. He cant sight sat from back garden so location will have to be on front elevation of house. He has small window box areas on front elevation. This could be used with a hidden dish

I notice some of sats are only 43 cm. Would they work in Dublin Area.If he can procure suitable aerial he wants to connect to 3 rooms and would subscribe to SKY and Setanta.

watty

Forget 43cm

It CAN go on rear of house. Very little pole above gutter needed. Elevation to satellite is a tad over 20 degrees. Unless you have a slanty roof designed for Lapland snow.

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podgeandrodge

watty wrote: »

Forget 43cm

Watty I know you know all about these things but I can't see why the small dishes are always referred to as a waste of time.

As said before I have a dish smaller than 39cm (camper dish from Maplin) and am successfully using it in Dublin in rail hail or shine with no problems.

wil

podgeandrodge wrote: »

As said before I have a dish smaller than 39cm (camper dish from Maplin) and am successfully using it in Dublin in rail hail or shine with no problems.

But that was only in reality, not in theory.
You can never trust reality:rolleyes:.

Psygnosis wrote:

Basically the person can't put a dish on the outside of there(sic) house

A very little pole won't sort that.
Unlike some, not everyone has the luxury of being able to mount a dish of any significant size where they feel or would like for a multitude of non-scandinavial reasons.
You may be operating on the limitations of reception with a micro-dish, but some channels is generally better than NO channels if you have little other choice.
But in Dublin certainly you should be able to get Sky adequately on a very small dish except perhaps in the worst downpours. Thats what books were invented for.:)

coffee to go

Maybe one of these:

www.sqish.co.uk

Covered in yesterday's Sunday Times:

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article3945007.ece

Have no idea if they'd be any good here in Ireland though, again maybe OK on east coast... The camoflaguing sticker concept is clever though.

watty

podgeandrodge wrote: »

Watty I know you know all about these things but I can't see why the small dishes are always referred to as a waste of time.

As said before I have a dish smaller than 39cm (camper dish from Maplin) and am successfully using it in Dublin in rail hail or shine with no problems.

1) Not all channels are on same satellite
2) Not everyone gets the same strength of signal.
3) Similar price and same work to install proper dish.

If Sky could use the UK 43cm dish, they would. They use a 65cm here and 43cm in London

Don't assume that what works for you is a general solution. Most of the effort is fitting the dish. It's daft to use a dish too small and maybe lose your movies24 or whatever when it rains.

Also LNBs are not all identical.

It's bad economics, bad engineering and bad sense to use a compromise ad hoc temporary dish for a fixed installation.

If people are coming here for advice they should be offered proper solutions. Not marginal ones that "happen" or "appear" to work for one person.


I've picked up all Sky channels in Limerick (much weaker Eurobird and Astra apart from 2D) on a 44cm dish. But I'd not install it for myself or anyone else even in Dublin/Wexford (better signal). It simply is too marginal. I'm using the 44cm dishes for up to 50km terrestrial applications.

The small dishes are OK for SE England for Sky. Or Germany for 19/13, Here you need 70cm to 85cm for 19E / 13E

podgeandrodge

i must admit that movies24 is the one channel thats a bit erratic! But i have recd lots of channels on 19e and 13e with ok strength before i settled on 28. Maybe the maplin version is good quality? On subject of installation i am crap with diy but the tiny wall bracket for the tiny dish was simple.

waster81

Might be right but the camping dish on sale in lidl/aldi is picking up astra 1 19e/13e loud and clear in dublin

watty wrote: »

1) Not all channels are on same satellite
2) Not everyone gets the same strength of signal.
3) Similar price and same work to install proper dish.

If Sky could use the UK 43cm dish, they would. They use a 65cm here and 43cm in London

Don't assume that what works for you is a general solution. Most of the effort is fitting the dish. It's daft to use a dish too small and maybe lose your movies24 or whatever when it rains.

Also LNBs are not all identical.

It's bad economics, bad engineering and bad sense to use a compromise ad hoc temporary dish for a fixed installation.

If people are coming here for advice they should be offered proper solutions. Not marginal ones that "happen" or "appear" to work for one person.


I've picked up all Sky channels in Limerick (much weaker Eurobird and Astra apart from 2D) on a 44cm dish. But I'd not install it for myself or anyone else even in Dublin/Wexford (better signal). It simply is too marginal. I'm using the 44cm dishes for up to 50km terrestrial applications.

The small dishes are OK for SE England for Sky. Or Germany for 19/13, Here you need 70cm to 85cm for 19E / 13E

Capt'n Midnight

waster81 wrote: »

Might be right but the camping dish on sale in lidl/aldi is picking up astra 1 19e/13e loud and clear in dublin

Don't forget we are in the middle of some fine weather now.

podgeandrodge

As stated before many times, I can receive 13e and 19e perfectly well and have done so in bad weather with the camping dish.