dish info

Germag

I have a sky dish and plus box. I also have an old 900mm Pace dish which was used for analog. The questions, can I use this dish for sky, free view and soar. What type of LMB (or is it LNB) do I need to do all this and where can I get one.What else do I need to do this?
Is there any way to receive BBC radio 4 on a dish in Co.Meath.
Thanks.

Johnboy1951

BBC R4 ... Extra, FM & LW are all on Free to Air satellite according to my receiver.

https://www.lyngsat.com/freeradio/United-Kingdom.html

steveon

Germag wrote: »

I have a sky dish and plus box. I also have an old 900mm Pace dish which was used for analog. The questions, can I use this dish for sky, free view and soar. What type of LMB (or is it LNB) do I need to do all this and where can I get one.What else do I need to do this?
Is there any way to receive BBC radio 4 on a dish in Co.Meath.
Thanks.

Your old dish for the analog would have been pointed to Astra 1 at 19.2 east and will need to be moved to Astra 2 at 28.2 degrees east. The lnb is an analog one and you will need a dual, quad lnb or single lnb for the dish providing you can actually open the collar and move the dish as its probably old at this stage and you actually dont need a dish this size anymore you would get away with a smaller dish 45-60cm dependin on where you are in the country...however if you can use the dish a lnb such as this for example would do

https://www.cablematic.ie/search/lnb/Double-LNB-converter-57mm-for-satellite-dish/TF93/?pag=1

Finally bbc radio 4 is fta on 28 degrees using the following freq
10788.00 V QPSK 22000 5/6

swoofer

I understand what you mean. Its quite possible a 90cm dish will pick up soarsat form 9east in Meath. You need a special lnb holder that allows you to pick up 28east as well. The lnb for soarsat is different from the normal lnb, typical of rte. soarsat uses the ka band frequency, astra uses Ku band. The ka band lnb is a dual output so you have 2 feeds.

here is a video free tv and they sell all the bits.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmOWa0UXoIY

this is what you need

http://www.freetv.ie/satellite/saorsat/ka-band-lnbs/

dxhound2005

Germag wrote: »

I have a sky dish and plus box. I also have an old 900mm Pace dish which was used for analog. The questions, can I use this dish for sky, free view and soar. What type of LMB (or is it LNB) do I need to do all this and where can I get one.What else do I need to do this?
Is there any way to receive BBC radio 4 on a dish in Co.Meath.
Thanks.

Freeview is the UK terrestrial service for which you need an aerial, not a dish. Their signals from the North may or may not reach you.

Saorview is the Irish terrestrial service also through an aerial RTE 1, RTE 2 etc.

Saorsat is what Swoofer described. It is there to fill in parts of the country which cannot get Saorview on an aerial. Not needed in Meath.

If you have your Sky box up and running it will give you everything that Freeview, Saorview and Saorsat has to offer, including all the BBC radio stations.

Any non Sky box connected to the Sky dish will give you the same radio and TV, except RTE, TG4 and TV3. They are part of the Sky pay TV package.

Another service is Freesat, all the free UK channels on a dedicated box. If you are paying Sky you get all of them included.

Germag

Thank you all for the info, very helpful. Looking at the youtube video I saw tv trade .ie but when I went to find them on line all I could find was a site called free tv. Any suggestions on where to get what I need?

Johnboy1951

Germag wrote: »

Thank you all for the info, very helpful. Looking at the youtube video I saw tv trade .ie but when I went to find them on line all I could find was a site called free tv. Any suggestions on where to get what I need?

freetv.ie

http://www.tvtrade.ie/ goes to www.freetv.ie

Capt'n Midnight

SaorSat only shows the RTE channels and TG4.

To get TV3 3e etc you need a TV aerial for SaorView.

It's at 9E so sub-optimal with the dish pointing at Astra


Also Saorsat is on the Ka band so normal sky dish full of holes doesn't work well. A solid dish is preferred.