Whats the reality of putting your Dish on a window and moving it yourself?

TVDX

Well in case the entire subject line doesnt make it ill repeat the question.

Whats the reality of putting your Dish on a window and moving it yourself?.

As in just plonking it up on the window sill and moving it around to see what satellites you can receive.

Now if its a mini dish i realise it would be hard to test this theory in terms of what i could receive because most satellites would need more than a small dish like that to get their signal, but if anyone can answer that question id be happy to know.

Secondly the obvious possibility of getting an 80 cm dish and moving it around.

Ok an explanation, fixing another dish top the building where im living is impossible, getting a motorised system is probably way too expensive, so just as a hobby i want to mess aorund with a digital receiver i have that is not a Sky box and just mess around and see what i can get. On the same subject what are you looking at for a motorised system.

Ok very long thread, look forward to hearing from you.

sergeant121

Have a look here - http://www.analoguesat.co.uk/ and, when the front page opens, ignore the music and click on the Enter in the centre of the screen.

Then scroll down the blue menu bar on the left to Painting and hiding dishes.

Click on that and, when it opens, scroll down - you'll see it IS possible - the dish looking through a (lead free) glass window, a digiglobe or a rock!

sergeant121

Have a look here - http://www.analoguesat.co.uk/ then scroll down the blue menu bar on the left to Painting and hiding dishes.

Click on that and, when it opens, scroll down - you'll see it IS possible - the dish looking through a (lead fre) glass window, a digiglobe or a rock!

Tony

Originally posted by sergeant121
Have a look here - http://www.analoguesat.co.uk/ then scroll down the blue menu bar on the left to Painting and hiding dishes.

Click on that and, when it opens, scroll down - you'll see it IS possible - the dish looking through a (lead fre) glass window, a digiglobe or a rock!

Interesting site. The guy pictured painting the dish in black and white won "Satellite installation of the year" for his efforts.

Tony

sceptre

Very interesting link.

Love the guy who stuck the fibreglass rock (looking like a big snowball) over his dish:D

sergeant121

That 'rock' is a genuine (American - where else) product. $299 or thereabouts IIRC from another forum.

sergeant121

No, wasn't in a forum, was on a web site - http://www.satcover.com/rock.htm

Tony

Originally posted by sergeant121
That 'rock' is a genuine (American - where else) product. $299 or thereabouts IIRC from another forum.

I wonder can I get a boulder for my 1.8m:D

sceptre

Originally posted by Tony
I wonder can I get a boulder for my 1.8m:D

1.8m??!?

Secret's out on what we should be buying?

What in the name of all that's holy can you do with your 1.8m dish Tony that you need that?