RE Saorsat + Freesat

michaelheno

Lads cannot get saorview where i am rural beara penn is there any box that can accomodate both the saorsat and freesat single

regards
Miko

swoofer

I think you mean signal and the answer is yes, a dvb s sat receiver but you will need 2 lnb's and an adaptor, dish 80cm will be fine, look at ferguson 150.

bappelbe

michaelheno wrote: »

Lads cannot get saorview where i am rural beara penn is there any box that can accomodate both the saorsat and freesat single

regards
Miko

I think the main problem you will face is that you will need 2 dishes pointing at 2 satellites, as the satellites are quite far apart.
I am not sure which boxes will take a cable (or 2) from both dishes - but there must be some box that will do it. I am sure there will be someone along with a suggestion

The Cush

michaelheno wrote: »

cannot get saorview where i am rural beara penn is there any box that can accomodate both the saorsat and freesat single

This will do Saorsat and FTA satellite - Walker WP95SAT-HD

swoofer

no one dish will do but get 80cm or bigger , look at this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oelcysN1gw

Peter Rhea

For the OP's part of the country, 2rn (formerly RTENL) specify a 'standard 100cm dish' for Saorsat alone & also refer to 'smaller high performance or Ka specific dishes', whatever they might be. They recommend that you 'talk to your local installer'.

It's all in this document. (Section 7.3 for the dish info.)

kooga

michaelheno wrote: »

Lads cannot get saorview where i am rural beara penn is there any box that can accomodate both the saorsat and freesat single

regards
Miko

this is what you need next an installer

http://www.tvtrade.ie/saorsat-freesat-kit.html

Peter Rhea

So nobody cares what the actual service provider has to say about what is needed to receive their service?

STB

kooga wrote: »

this is what you need next an installer

http://www.tvtrade.ie/saorsat-freesat-kit.html

GBCULLEN wrote: »

no one dish will do but get 80cm or bigger , look at this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oelcysN1gw

No.

I would not advise anyone on the Beara Peninsula to use such a flimsy dish with such a flimsy bracket. You need a proper dish with a proper bracket. Think Triax, TD88 or possibly TD110 and a multibracket.

GBCULLEN wrote: »

I think you mean signal and the answer is yes, a dvb s sat receiver but you will need 2 lnb's and an adaptor, dish 80cm will be fine, look at ferguson 150.

You need a dvb-s2 tuner (not a dvb-s). One of the LNB's must be a Ka LNB, and one a Ku, preferably a Inverto Black Ultra given you will be positioning the 28.2 on an offset bracket with the primary Ka lnb pointing at 9E. You need a Diseqc switch also.

Peter Rhea

See this thread, especially from post #10 on. The poster kodscoll seems to be an installer in the southwest.

Peter Rhea

michaelheno wrote: »

Lads cannot get saorview where i am rural beara penn

Are you basing this solely on what the Saorview coverage checker says or, have you tried with a decent outdoor aerial?

Maybe the house already has an aerial that could receive analogue tv?

Skull Murphy

STB wrote: »

I would not advise anyone on the Beara Peninsula to use such a flimsy dish with such a flimsy bracket. You need a proper dish with a proper bracket. Think Triax ....

You must own one of the Smart dishes or at least had a good look at someone else's? Or you have a rare gift of judging quality from YouTube videos?

The feed arm & elevation bracket on the Smart is more or less identical to Triax iirc. The dish face itself resembles the Triax "Basic" range which may or may not still be in production.

STB

Skull Murphy wrote: »

You must own one of the Smart dishes or at least had a good look at someone else's? Or you have a rare gift of judging quality from YouTube videos?

The feed arm & elevation bracket on the Smart is more or less identical to Triax iirc. The dish face itself resembles the Triax "Basic" range which may or may not still be in production.

Hi Skull,

I havent judged anything on the youtube video alone you will be glad to know.

A friend actually ordered one and asked me to set it up for him, so yes I have first hand knowledge of them. I was comparing them to the Triax TD range. There is no comparison and they are not losely based on that range at all.

And regarding using that cheap metal bracket to attach to the smart dish, it is too flimsy and not suitable for anchoring the offset 28.2 LNB off the main KA LNB 9E. And I have one of them. They are not robust. The slightest bit of wind and the alignment would be out. Fine perhaps on a Sky sized dish with an lnb either side, but anchoring for that distance, no way would they be stable.

I dont sell dishes, so you can take it as my experience. Beara Peninsula, it would not last long.

Skull Murphy

I'm certainly in agreement about the mounting bracket.