Dish Size, Receiver and Alignment

baba78

Hi everyone,

I am wondering if anyone can help with a small project I am about to start. My mam is looking for me to install a satellite dish for her in the house. She is old and sick of paying full UPC costs for a single Indian channel. She is struggling to pay these bills.

As I mentioned, she is only looking for Indian channels. Everything else is a plus.

I am fairly tech savy and handy with such things, but I have no experience with satellite dish installs.

I am looking for advise on what I need to get things started.

1. What size dish do I need?
2. What type of receiver do I need? looking for Quad LNB..
3. Can I use an phone app to find the satellite i need?
4. What satellite am I looking for?


Any help or advise would be fantastic and thanks for your help in advance.

P.S. She is living in Dublin, Ireland in-case that is important for alignment.

The Cush

http://www.lyngsat.com/freetv/India.html

The channels listed are all free to air. The easiest to receive with a standard 60-80cm dish and FTA satellite receiver are those on the satellites at 28°E, these are the same satellites used by Sky and Freesat.

baba78

Hi 'The Cush',

Thanks for your reply. I would be open to getting a bigger dish if required 90/120. Whatever it takes to get her the channels she wants.

The Cush

baba78 wrote: »

I would be open to getting a bigger dish if required 90/120. Whatever it takes to get her the channels she wants.

What channels?

swoofer

I cant find that indian channel on UPC and without an actual name its even more difficult. Can you say name of channels please?

But as a general rule of thumb in Dublin with a motorised dish you can receive satellites within the arc 43east to 30west so if channels are not on those sats its a no no. Even then a satellite can be at say 7west but the beam is over the far east so you cant get those either.

I should add if you click on the link the Cush posted and look across the panels until you get to beam then for each satellite click on beam and if it covers Dublin its possible to receive.

dxhound2005

baba78

I think the only Indian channel on UPC is Zee TV and it is not free to air on satellite either. It is part of the Sky pay TV package on the 28 East satellite and requires a subscription to Sky. The only channels from the Cush list you can get in Dublin are all on the 28 East satellite. The others are on satellites which cannot be received in Ireland. So a small dish and any satellite receiver will do for 28 East.

King of Sat allows channels to be sorted by country, see the list of channels on 28 East for India. Pakistan and Bangladesh may be of interest also ? and some Indian channels may be listed under UK (Zing TV is). Only those listed as Clear are free to air.

http://en.kingofsat.net/freqs.php?&pos=28.2E&standard=All&ordre=nom_pays&filtre=no


I cannot offer any advice on a DIY installation but there is plenty on the internet, like the one on Boards. You can also Google for phone apps, again something I know nothing about.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=77301674

Just to repeat, there is no point in wondering about bigger dishes. Those other satellites cannot be received in Ireland.

Gerry Wicklow

This site will tell you what satellites you can "see", what size dish it needs and where to point it.