receive SKY in Amsterdam with camping kit

bittihuduga

hi
i have moved to amsterdam and cannot put dish in my apartment
i was wondering can i use the ALDI camping kit to receive FTA channels on 28.2?
the dish is 35cm.
will it be big enough to catch signals in amsterdam?

ALDI ad says - Kit consists of: hard carry case containing 35cm dish, receiver, LNB, adjustable wall bracket, suction base, satellite finder and compass, 10m satellite cable, 1 × 1.5m SCART cable, 2 × F connector and 1 × flat window F cable

steveon

In a nutshell no....u would need a much larger dish to catch the sky signal...even a 35 cm unless u are on the east coast of Ireland is way 2 small...would imagine u would need at least a 80cm or larger at a minimum.

You should be able to use it to catch astra 1....loads of german channels etc...a few english but nothing great

Mossy Monk

I'd say 60cm would be more than enough. Amsterdam is not that far from the UK.

netwhizkid

Those aldi and Lidl dishes are too small for even reception here unless on a sunny day and even the slightest breeze throws them off. The receiver will only receive FTA (free to air) channels so you won't actually receive Sky channels either only the FTA ones, but you alot of the content on Sky is FTA anyway so it will be kind of like Sky.

snaps

Ive seen ok results with a 40cm dish here i rain with a decent lnb fitted, would say a 35cm dish would be to small, but you never know until you try! If you have a south facing balcony/window you could sit a bigger dish in that looking south east?