Taking the skybox to france

JohnBoy

My sister's getting married in france in a few weeks time.

The wedding is in a little village in the arsehole of beyond. but very pretty


Anyway, my dad's obsessed with hurling, goes to all the matches, works in semple stadium, tried to plan his bypass last year around the championship type obsessed.


but somehow he agreed to go to my sisters wedding in france on the day before the all ireland.

which tipp are now playing in.


So the search is on for local irish pubs, of which the nearest are about an hour away and the staff didnt know what the all ireland was a few weeks ago when the sis called in.


Various internet based options have been investigated and discarded as they're either not available outside ireland, or the broadband's not good enough, or I reckon it's just not gonna be fast enough for hurling anyway.


An alternative solution has been proposed, one of the sister's friends was a satelite system installer in a previous life, he reckons if we bring an irish skybox and card over and he brings a dish that it'll all just work.

I cant see why it wouldnt, the box has no awareness of it's physical location so why should it no show the channels it's card would normally allow at home?

So, oh wise people of boards. can we make an old man happy?

cos it's gonna be a right dose getting up early to take him to an airport on sunday morning to fly home for the match

JMcCR

Yea, that'll work I watch my sky from Holland with no problems.
The further south you go the bigger the dish you need but afaik even in the south a 60 - 80 cm dish will have no problems.

http://www.dishpointer.com/ will give you the details. If you have trouble using it, tell the the name of the town and I'll get the info for you.

M5

If your in the south of France you will need a big dish. prob 1.5M or so.....

JohnBoy

Cool site, we're only gonna be half an hour from the english channel so the north/south issue shouldnt be a problem.

what satellite is sky on?

JMcCR

Don't think this is correct. My parents have a dish mounted to the roof of their motorhome (80cm) and it works all the way into Northern Spain. As they go more south they lose the RTE / BBC as these are coming for Eurobird which has a smaller footprint than the other satellites

JMcCR

JohnBoy wrote: »

Cool site, we're only gonna be half an hour from the english channel so the north/south issue shouldnt be a problem.

what satellite is sky on?

Look to the satellites at 28.2E / 28.5E (either)

Tony

Actually they come from Astra 2D which is focused on Ireland and UK. Eurobird has quite a wide beam http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/maps/eb1_fixed.html

JMcCR wrote: »

As they go more south they lose the RTE / BBC as these are coming for Eurobird which has a smaller footprint than the other satellites

ScrubsfanChris

M5 wrote: »

If your in the south of France you will need a big dish. prob 1.5M or so.....

I was in Quillan last week which in Southern France and is only about 60 miles from the Spanish border, they had Sky set up at the house and the dish was the same size as the one we have at home.

rlogue

I would recommend an 80cm dish to be certain of good reception, even in Northern France. My in laws have a house near Arcachon in the SW of France, about 60 km sw of Bordeaux. An 80 cm dish pulls in BBC, ITV, C4 & C5quite well, so RTÉ Two on Astra 2D with an Irish Sky box and a live card will work fine.

Few dishes in France point at Astra 2 so you will probably have to install a dish pointing at 28.2 and fine tuned on an Astra 2D channel like BBC 1, or hook the box up to a motorised dish making sure Astra 2 is found by a motorised receiver first as the Sky box certainly won't drive a Diseqc motor.

JMcCR

Tony wrote: »

Actually they come from Astra 2D which is focused on Ireland and UK. Eurobird has quite a wide beam http://www.lyngsat-maps.com/maps/eb1_fixed.html

Sorry, my mistake! I should have checked properly. I knew it was one of them

fitzgooble

you should have no problem with a standard zone 2 sky dish, the one we use in ireland, i once installed a zone 1 dish, about 45 cm in a pub in reykjavik, iceland and reception was perfect, you'll use astre 28 e, which is in geostationary orbit above uganda-ish so you'll be pointing it sse of your location, you can buy cheap sat finders in the likes of maplin electronics.

Tony

JMcCR wrote: »

Sorry, my mistake! I should have checked properly. I knew it was one of them

No need to apologise, honest mistake

rlogue

I am sure a zone 2 minidish will work but rather than carting one over from Ireland it might be more cost effective to buy an 80 cm dish at the local hypermarket in France.

watty

For Rain margin, even near channel, Go for 80cm.

Further East or south you need a bigger dish, solely for Astra 2D.

JohnBoy

Just said I'd update this, and yes, as predicted it worked a treat.

sadly benny dunne didnt






we had a full house as word got around during the wedding and a good few of the sister's friend's husbands turned up for the afternoon.

Tony

Good work