Recommend a satellite dish

lmimmfn

I have a 7 year old sky dish installed, I'm on freeview now. It keeps losing signal, had 2 seperate guys check it out and second guy said its too corroded, and did a temp fix up job. Which is better but still suxblosing signal

I know nothing about dishes, can anyone recommend a good dish? I'd like something thats not going to be corroded in a few years if possible. I don't mind paying more if it means it'll last longer, basically decision is based on longer last in then price

winston_1

If you are on Freeview you will be using an aerial not a dish. And you will be very near the NI border, in NI, or on the east coast.

If you want a dish for Freesat a standard sky dish should do. The secret to avoid corrosion is to not live near the sea and good installation techniques with liberal use of Vaseline or silicon grease, something which most installers don't bother with.

My standard sky dish has been installed over 20 years now and there is no corrosion and it still works. I installed it myself.

muffler

winston_1 wrote: »

If you are on Freeview you will be using an aerial not a dish. And you will be very near the NI border, in NI, or on the east coast.

Why dont you stop being so pedantic? Everyone here knows what the OP meant as you cant get freeview from a dish so why dont you get off that bloody high horse of yours before you fall off and do yourself an injury.

gerry sat

Fibreglass dish, if you can afford it, or Inverto aluminium, or triax.

Modern Sky dishes are rubbishes, so keep away from them.

Regards,

Gerry

winston_1

muffler wrote: »

Why dont you stop being so pedantic? Everyone here knows what the OP meant as you cant get freeview from a dish so why dont you get off that bloody high horse of yours before you fall off and do yourself an injury.

Nothing pedantic at all. The OP clearly said he was on Freeview. Freeview is a UK service received through an aerial.
If he made a mistake it needs correcting so he and others don't make the same mistake.

winston_1

gerry sat wrote: »

Fibreglass dish, if you can afford it, or Inverto aluminium, or triax.

Modern Sky dishes are rubbishes, so keep away from them.

Regards,

Gerry

All very well. But the fixings, bolts etc, are still steel and will need protecting as I explained.

mickdw

2 guys checking out an old dish and doing temp repairs. Your labour costs must now be 5 fold the cost of actually replacing the dish.
I live basically in the sea in mayo and the sky dishes lasted about 1 year before falling down. I fitted a triax about 5 years ago, only paid about 55 quid for an 88 cm dish and it still looks absolutely new.

amikoalien2

lmimmfn wrote: »

I have a 7 year old sky dish installed, I'm on freeview now. It keeps losing signal, had 2 seperate guys check it out and second guy said its too corroded, and did a temp fix up job. Which is better but still suxblosing signal

I know nothing about dishes, can anyone recommend a good dish? I'd like something thats not going to be corroded in a few years if possible. I don't mind paying more if it means it'll last longer, basically decision is based on longer last in then price

Probably something like this

http://www.satworld.ie/78cm-triax-satellite-dish-td78-non-rust.html

Says its well protected from rust if you happen to live by the sea

Also having said that I also live by the sea and have a 12 year old sky dish
which I took down I wire brushed it & painted it with a cheap can of lidl's black spray paint and put it back up and it still works great but no doubt ther were made of better stuff in the early days

John T Carroll

mickdw wrote: »

2 guys checking out an old dish and doing temp repairs. Your labour costs must now be 5 fold the cost of actually replacing the dish.
I live basically in the sea in mayo and the sky dishes lasted about 1 year before falling down. I fitted a triax about 5 years ago, only paid about 55 quid for an 88 cm dish and it still looks absolutely new.

Ditto, not too far from the Old Head, +5 years.

Mint Sauce

winston_1 wrote: »

Nothing pedantic at all. The OP clearly said he was on Freeview. Freeview is a UK service received through an aerial.
If he made a mistake it needs correcting so he and others don't make the same mistake.

Yeah, and Freesat is also a UK service. We just happen to fall within its catchment area, as do Freeview users in Boarder areas or on certain parts of the East Coast.

Once the OP said he was using a dish, I had pretty good idea what he was on about as well, and I used to mix the two up regularly only up until about a year ago.

Getting back to the type of dish. I had an old mesh dish on my house, tottally corroded that worked fine till Storm Desmond took it. Was recommended the Triax one by my installer, and was only about €10-15 more than the Sky Mesh one. Personally went for the one, but still expect to get a good 5-7 years out of it, judging by the one that was there before.

John T Carroll

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Yeah, and Freesat is also a UK service. We just happen to fall within its catchment area, as do Freeview users in Boarder areas or on certain parts of the East Coast.

Once the OP said he was using a dish, I had pretty good idea what he was on about as well, and I used to mix the two up regularly only up until about a year ago.

Getting back to the type of dish. I had an old mesh dish on my house, tottally corroded that worked fine till Storm Desmond took it. Was recommended the Triax one by my installer, and was only about €10-15 more than the Sky Mesh one. Personally went for the one, but still expect to get a good 5-7 years out of it, judging by the one that was there before.

I very nearly made a cockup because of that, I had bought a Manhattan Freesat (cheap but good) box on Amazon and I was purchasing another for a friend but Amazon were out of them at the time and what popped up was the Freeview one but I spotted it just as I was about to purchase.

minterno

winston_1 wrote: »

If you are on Freeview you will be using an aerial not a dish. And you will be very near the NI border, in NI, or on the east coast.

If you want a dish for Freesat a standard sky dish should do. The secret to avoid corrosion is to not live near the sea and good installation techniques with liberal use of Vaseline or silicon grease, something which most installers don't bother with.

My standard sky dish has been installed over 20 years now and there is no corrosion and it still works. I installed it myself.

The crappy dishes that are doing the rounds for the last few years wont last anywhere, I put up one myself in a sheltered back garden and after 12 months its a pity, I have a 1.1m TRIAX on a motor out the back for years and it as good as new still(given a wash) and a 80 or 85 gilbertini stuck of the front of the house for a long time, id say over 10 years maybe and its spotless as well, the sky ones are not the same as they were im afraid

St Senan

The Standard Sky dishes either 45cm or 60cm are not out for the last 20 years. These dishes were introduced in late 97 early 98 as Sky digital was officially launched on 1 October 1998 and before that people used gibertini or triax 80cm solid dishes to pick up Sky Analogue. The original poster said in the 1st post "I know nothing about dishes" it's clear to the people here who want to help the poster that he meant satellite TV when the word Freeview was mentioned.

winston_1

Navarre wrote: »

The original poster said in the 1st post "I know nothing about dishes" it's clear to the people here who want to help the poster that he meant satellite TV when the word Freeview was mentioned.

Well now he knows a bit more, that Freeview is not available via a dish. And he has also been helped with dish suggestions.

muffler

I used to think that thread wreckers took a Sunday off. Seems not.

St Senan

winston_1 wrote: »

Well now he knows a bit more, that Freeview is not available via a dish. And he has also been helped with dish suggestions.

And now you know that the standard sky dishes were not around more than 20 years ago. and you also know the mods here have told you numerous times before to stop with your pedantic comments towards people coming here looking for help.

hju6

My engineer fitted a Triax TD 54 saorview dish, he said it was the best for my ariva freesat/saorview combo box, works great

winston_1

hju6 wrote: »

My engineer fitted a Triax TD 54 saorview dish, he said it was the best for my ariva freesat/saorview combo box, works great

Like Freeview, Saorview does not come from a dish.

winston_1

Navarre wrote: »

And now you know that the standard sky dishes were not around more than 20 years ago. and you also know the mods here have told you numerous times before to stop with your pedantic comments towards people coming here looking for help.

OK so my dish is 18/19 not 20 years old, thanks.

But as I said my comment was factual, not pedantic. Getting the two mixed up could cause one to buy the wrong equipment, see post 11.

dialer

A standard sky dish retail costs 43 euro.

I think if you got 7 years worth from it, you did very well. It owes you nothing.

In my mind just swap it out for a new one.

Mint Sauce

winston_1 wrote: »

Like Freeview, Saorview does not come from a dish.

Maybe, just maybe he also has an aerial connected to it for the Saorview service. It is a Combo Box after all.

Thurston?

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Maybe, just maybe he also has an aerial connected to it for the Saorview service ...

Maybe, just maybe, both of you have your sarcasm detector switched off ...

muffler

hju6 wrote: »

My engineer fitted a Triax TD 54 saorview dish, he said it was the best for my ariva freesat/saorview combo box, works great

I thought you were an installer based on some of your previous posts here.

So are you just a happy customer or an installer?

Mint Sauce

Thurston? wrote: »

Maybe, just maybe, both of you have your sarcasm detector switched off ...

No mines on.

icdg

I've reviewed this thread. A general warning to all. If you feel someone is trolling, don't feed the trolls. Otherwise you are culpable in the thread going off topic.

obezyana

I have to say the Satellite and Terrestrial forum have become fairly septic with all the nonsense being spouted about by certain posters. Some think they know how the trade works because they read articles online or they install for friends or families others just pick out holes in people's post just for the sake of it. The place has become a joke. I don't bother posting here that much anymore mainly because of those reasons. I'm sure some are happy at that It's a shame as it was a great place for anyone to get some info or ask a question without getting belittled by others.

This very thread had gone the exact same way as others with the usual suspects doing what they do best. Yes I got involved in tit for tat comments on other threads but I quickly realised how petty and pathetic this place has become so I opted out for the most part in posting here. I have learned not to get caught in the hook of posters fishing for trouble.

There are a good few posters here who I enjoy reading their posts as they are helpful and informative and it is these people who keep the forum from disintegrating all together if only the others didn't throw things off track.

I still come and read some of the threads and I still find it a good place for some relevant info I just wish the crappy attitudes of some of the posters would be knocked on the head, if the know it all posters reign in their ego's a bit and stop pretending to know everyting it would be even better

Sorry for the off topic rant but I guess it's the norm here lately I shall wait with baited breath for anyone who wishes to have a go. Maybe I'm just posting crap maybe not either way this forum is imo gone to the dogs.

icdg

Im afraid I'm going to take the view that the thread is beyond saving then.OP is welcome to start another