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Getting more TV stations in Sligo

  • 15-08-2007 02:43PM
    #1
    laserbeam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭


    Hi All

    Just wondering does anyone know a way of getting some of the UK stations in Sligo!! I do not want to get a dish or aerial as we are in a rented house and not sure how logn we will be there! Would like to avoid the whole monthly subscrition thing too so a portable solution would be great!! Currently we can only get a pretty fuzzy rte one and two!!

    Cheers:)


Comments

  • #2
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    How would you expect to receive anything with no aerial or dish?


  • #3
    laserbeam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭laserbeam


    Hi

    I heard there was a box you could get where you could get stations!! Can you get this and an aerial which is a portable solution?


  • #4
    Ulsterman 1690
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭Ulsterman 1690


    I have a 65cm dish from Maplin mounted on a concrete paving slab (flagstone) sitting in the back garden pointed at 28 deg East

    I have a FTV (Freesat) Digibox so I get all the BBC and ITV channels and with the FTV card I can get Channels 4 & 5 as well

    when I move house Ill just take the dish/slab and digibox with me

    Oh and I dont pay any subscription (other than to Auntie Beeb)


  • #5
    laserbeam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭laserbeam


    Hi Ulsterman

    Many thanks for your help on this.. Where did you get your digibox?
    Just one other question is there much wiring and setup for this solution??

    Cheers


  • #6
    Ulsterman 1690
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭Ulsterman 1690


    Bought the digibox from simplydigital but I dont think they would sell a system with a card to anyone without a UK address (maybe you have friends or family you could ask)

    The dish/LNB/cables came from maplin. While the paving slab (and drill bits) came from a local builders merchant :D

    If you can live without Channels 4 and 5 satellite.ie can sort you with a FTA system (dish and reciever)

    The only tricky part setting it all up is aligning the dish on the correct satellite (see the wiki/sticky threads) Having a signal meter is a big help when doing this bit (In theoy you can get by without one if you have A LOT of time and patience)


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  • #7
    TheDriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,178 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    I found Ulsterman that 28.5 came straight away (well, maybe 5 mins) hence no need for signal meter, same again when I changed my dish. FOund it horribly difficult to get hotbird or astra 1 however!


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