Small Dish and Receiver (Polish TV)

Kintarō Hattori

Hello there good folks,

First off my apologies if this is in the wrong place as I know next to nothing about this sort of stuff. I live in an apartment complex in Dublin with her good self. Like most apartment complex's satellite dishes are not allowed. However when I walk around the courtyard I can see a good few apartments that have rather small dishes (about the size of a dinner plate) hidden away on the balconies or placed right up beside the floor to ceiling windows that some of the apartments have.

With herself being polish I thought it might be nice for her to watch some TV from time to time. Obviously a dish should be outdoors but as I said quite a few people have them right beside the large windows that the flats have (our window is from the floor to the ceiling and quite wide) and the windows face out into a fairly large courtyard.

Do you guys think a setup like this would be able to receive good quality images? If so can anyone reccomend somewhere in town that would sell the equipment I'd need to watch some polish TV!

M5

Cyfra and Polsat are receivable with a 45cm dish pointing at 13.0e although they will break up in bad weather

would reccomend going bigger if you can though. There are also a few FTA chans on 19.2e (TV polonia for one) that are quite strong

I had a lidl camping satellite set and the signal was pretty good,

M5

byte

Personally, I'd say 60cm dish is absolute minimum for Hotbird (13°E), as bad weather is a given here!

Kintarō Hattori

This is the dish which seems most common in the apartments here. What do you guys think, would it be any good?

watty

60cm will only do for stronger channels in light rain on 13E.

You really need a 70cm in Dublin/East to 80cm/85cm dish in West /MidWest for reliable 13E reception.

M5

actually the stock cyfra one works fine for polsat and cyfra, even in bad weather