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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Gosub


    andy125 wrote: »
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/281172003249?lpid=83&clk_rvr_id=608078379272

    Would this work in Ireland seems a good price, very hot on hukd
    The dish seems a bit small. I think an 80cm dish is required for Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,917 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    andy125 wrote: »
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/281172003249?lpid=83&clk_rvr_id=608078379272

    Would this work in Ireland seems a good price, very hot on hukd

    45cm dish is too small to work reliably here, you'd need at least 60cm. Anyway, they only appear to ship to UK.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,339 ✭✭✭✭Tony


    Dish is slightly smaller than the recommended size for Ireland which is 60cm but it is a great price and the Philex brand is a step up from the dishes lidl and Aldi sell from time to time. Just bear in mind that RTE is not free on satellite so you will need a separate receiver and small aerial to pick up saorview.

    andy125 wrote: »
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/281172003249?lpid=83&clk_rvr_id=608078379272

    Would this work in Ireland seems a good price, very hot on hukd

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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,286 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    Gosub wrote: »
    The dish seems a bit small. I think an 80cm dish is required for Ireland.

    60cm is fine- the dish and mounting kit for a 60cm dish works out at around 20 Euro- an 80cm one would be around 35 Euro. It depends on where in the country you are though- the further outside the footprint hotspot you are- the better the signal strength you'll get from a larger dish. For the East coast- a 60cm dish is tonnes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,101 ✭✭✭✭dodzy


    Marhay70 wrote: »
    Anyway, they only appear to ship to UK.
    Parcel Motel.

    Just to note that this receiver (I think its the model:28261R) is FTA as opposed to FREESAT, as far as I can make out. Ebay description is inaccurate. Still a decent price for a full HD kit.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    It will be a nuisance when you are having to retune about every 3 weeks and your channels are all over the place with no EPG only now and next also.

    A false economy, best buy a Sky dish and get yourself a branded uk freesat box like this via ebay.co.uk and Parcel Motel.

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BUSH-BFSAT03HD-HD-RECEIVER-FREESAT-BOX-HDMI-180-CHANNELS-INC-BBC-iPLAYER-/390795154308?pt=UK_Sound_Vision_Satellite_TV_Receivers&hash=item5afd34d384


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    dodzy wrote: »
    Parcel Motel.

    Just to note that this receiver (I think its the model:28261R) is FTA as opposed to FREESAT, as far as I can make out. Ebay description is inaccurate. Still a decent price for a full HD kit.

    That item with the satellite dish would be too big for parcel motel and as I said the guys better off getinng a branded "Freesat" receiver and get a Sky dish installed separately. Those other cheap dishs have no life-span and will be misaligned after a storm, the Sky mesh dish survives it a bit better.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,402 ✭✭✭Invincible


    Stinicker wrote: »
    That item with the satellite dish would be too big for parcel motel and as I said the guys better off getinng a branded "Freesat" receiver and get a Sky dish installed separately. Those other cheap dishs have no life-span and will be misaligned after a storm, the Sky mesh dish survives it a bit better.

    A Triax dish is miles ahead of a Sky dish, no trouble with it rusting and comes with a solid mounting bracket, never moved in any storm.


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