Moving to Sweden

aka Dus

Hi everyone, long time lurker & occassional poster with new login. Hope you can give me some advice, I'm thinking this is the best place to ask.

I'm moving to Sweden shortly and have my sky box down off my wall packed up and ready to go. The apartment I am moving into will not permit the normal sky box dish on the wall as I had when I lived in Germany. i think the Swedes consider Satelitte receivers to be for poor people only.

However, I recall a couple months ago there was a link to indoor receivers which when placed inside a window could receive a signal adequately. I wonder could you please post the link to that site?

I have checked the astra satellite and southern Sweden where I will live is comfortably within the footprint of a couple of the Astra 2 satellites. however, having checked the alignment of the windows of the apartment I have realised it faces almost due south. I need to have the receiver facing East, right?

Do you think one of these small indoor receivers will be adequate to take the sky signal?

Any other advice, observations or comments gratefully received.

Thanks a lot

Dus

Zaphod

Any satellite dish that works outside should also work inside, assuming the glass isn't lead lined. There are no specific indoor antennas to my knowledge.

If the glass is double-glazed, then it will also attenuate the signal but to what extent depends again on the window's construction/material. Ideally the glass should be replaced with polycarbonate to keep signal losses to a minimum.

Perhaps something like a cassegrain type dish might be worth considering, as they tend to have high efficiencies and are fairly compact (due to lack of feedarm) so are more suited to indoors where room is at a premium.
http://www.sattv.nl
(Click on 'schotels' and see bottom of page)

If you can put a disguised dish on a balcony, then that's possibly a better way to go overall
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=224642


You say that you're in southern Sweden, so let's assume Stockholm. That has co-ordinates of 59N, 18E. This means if you are facing directly south in Stockholm, you will be facing in the direction of 18E. As the Astra 2 satellites are located at 28E, you need only move eastwards by 10 degrees in order to be aligned with that. IOW your south facing windows should be fine in that regards.

Finally, as in the thread about Budapest -
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=233738
- the Astra 2D footprint is much tighter than the others, and this means it is much harder to receive the RTÉ and BBC channels in continental Europe than the other Sky channels. The following reception reports will give you an idea of what's required.

http://www.astra2d.co.uk/sweden.htm

aka Dus

Zaphod wrote:

Any satellite dish that works outside should also work inside, assuming the glass isn't lead lined. There are no specific indoor antennas to my knowledge.

If the glass is double-glazed, then it will also attenuate the signal but to what extent depends again on the window's construction/material. Ideally the glass should be replaced with polycarbonate to keep signal losses to a minimum.

Perhaps something like a cassegrain type dish might be worth considering, as they tend to have high efficiencies and are fairly compact (due to lack of feedarm) so are more suited to indoors where room is at a premium.
http://www.sattv.nl
(Click on 'schotels' and see bottom of page)

If you can put a disguised dish on a balcony, then that's possibly a better way to go overall
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=224642


You say that you're in southern Sweden, so let's assume Stockholm. That has co-ordinates of 59N, 18E. This means if you are facing directly south in Stockholm, you will be facing in the direction of 18E. As the Astra 2 satellites are located at 28E, you need only move eastwards by 10 degrees in order to be aligned with that. IOW your south facing windows should be fine in that regards.

Finally, as in the thread about Budapest -
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=233738
- the Astra 2D footprint is much tighter than the others, and this means it is much harder to receive the RTÉ and BBC channels in continental Europe than the other Sky channels. The following reception reports will give you an idea of what's required.

http://www.astra2d.co.uk/sweden.htm

Thanks a lot.

It's actually Malmö I'm moving to which isn't quite as far north or east as Stockholm but I'm still hopeful it wont be a big deal.

The windows are double glazex but they are pretty new with a PVC frame.

I'l investigate a little more efficiently thanks to your advice.