FTV without dish?

ro_chez · 28-09-2005 12:38pm #1

Hi all, first time posting in this forum. There's alot of valuable information in here but I could'nt find the answer to this, so apologies if its been posted before.

Do you need a dish to get the ftv channels? At the moment I have a uk registered sky card and I was gonna get a digibox shortly. Would this be enough or would I need a dish aswell.

Thanks.

mjsmyth · 28-09-2005 1:15pm

You will definately need a dish..........

Hagar · 28-09-2005 1:22pm

And a telly...

watty · 28-09-2005 1:36pm

An an "LNB" on the end of dish arm, and proper Satellite Coax cable not ordinary TV cable or cable TV cable.

Gargantuan · 28-09-2005 2:18pm

Electricity is also very desirable.............

Capt'n Midnight · 28-09-2005 9:19pm

With Terresterial TV you need an aerial even though you are within 10Km of the transmitter. (ie. most of Dublin), I'd be shocked if you wern't aware of this.

With Satellite the transmitter is using less than 1% of the power of a terresterial one, and instead of covering a county it's covering the whole of Ireland and GB, and the transmitter is a just a tad further away - about 35,800 Km away give or take.

Actually you don't need a dish, you could use one of these

you could use a TV type aerial but it would have to be a lot longer than these - http://www.hamradio.hr/9a2ga/mw/mw.html

squarial might work in the UK, don't think they'd work here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1233927.stm

Capt'n Midnight · 28-09-2005 9:32pm

http://www.whom.co.uk/grundig/bsb.htm - inside of the squarial

Zaphod · 28-09-2005 10:56pm

Squarials were designed for reception of RHCP signals in the DBS band. Apart from a few oddball Russian channels on Eutelsat W4, which are probably too weak for a squarial in any case, there's nothing else to be received in Europe.

In the US, the use of circular polarisation for Ku-band signals is widespread.

FTV without dish?

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