Camping Newbies - Sky TV?

postbox said:
Out of curiosity, would you even get a decent enough signal for Sky?
I have visions of you needing a dish the size of Jodrell Bank.
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According to that link on the 1st page a 40cm dish is good enough for UK, Northern France, and parts of Scotland.

I would have thought a dish pointing to the sky from the ground is just the same as a dish pointing to the sky from a house.

Incredible logic I used there wouldn't you agree?

Oh hang on, what about all those great big obstructions you find in the countryside. Yes, maybe I will need a dish the size of Jodrell Bank.
 
ChrisGTL said:
According to that link on the 1st page a 40cm dish is good enough for UK, Northern France, and parts of Scotland.

I would have thought a dish pointing to the sky from the ground is just the same as a dish pointing to the sky from a house.

Incredible logic I used there wouldn't you agree?

Oh hang on, what about all those great big obstructions you find in the countryside. Yes, maybe I will need a dish the size of Jodrell Bank.
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Given that

a) We are apparently a bunch of computer geeks who obsess about mhz
b) We don't know what we're talking about
c) You don't care for our opinions

Why don't you pop off?
 
ChrisGTL said:
According to that link on the 1st page a 40cm dish is good enough for UK, Northern France, and parts of Scotland.

I would have thought a dish pointing to the sky from the ground is just the same as a dish pointing to the sky from a house.

Incredible logic I used there wouldn't you agree?

Oh hang on, what about all those great big obstructions you find in the countryside. Yes, maybe I will need a dish the size of Jodrell Bank.
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Yes or no would have been suffice ;), but your sarcastic, stubborn response did make me smile.
 
ChrisGTL said:
Jeepers!!

Looks like I've really upset some of you.

Let me paint a picture for you; If I wanted a caravan I would have got a caravan, and what % of caravans have a TV (damn they even put aerials on caravans as standard). Look at caravan/camping sites - electrical hookups and TV points. Must be loads of other 'dumb' people like me going to these sites, unless their just catering for me.

Caravan vs tent - well a caravan is just like a small home in a different location (hotel anyone?). Tenting is proper outdoors, and when you have walked further than you have ever done before it is nice to sometimes just come back and cool down in front of some sport on TV. Likewise when the otherhalf (some of you may need to lookup 'relationship') is taking yonks having shower/drying/straightening hair it is also nice just to catch up with the news on TV for an hour before setting off out for tea etc.

Believe me we don't go away to watch TV as some of you suggest - hell I bet 90% of you would take your PC so you can get that well needed pistol upgrade before your nocturnal friend does.

Quink - I don't think you would insert anything to anyone tbh. Sorry, that's just my opinion.
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Genuine LOL man nice post....
 
I just got an infraction for quoting some of the OP's words in post #67 from w3bbo so I'm going to duck out right about now. Good luck OP.
 
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Threads mint..

calls for some "picture says a thousand words" moments.

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Posted with a smile of course :)

Camping is great fella, get out there and enjoy it.
 
Oh this thread.... :D

The last time I went camping was at a Festival, so no showers, horrible loos, etc...

The last time I went camping just for fun and pleasure...
Scotland, near a lake, breathtaking views, a phone in case of emergencies. A meth stove, and a book.
I spent half the weekend whittling away a stick. Looked like a good wand xD Still got it somewhere I think...

Infarctions aren't really as bad as they sound... just a pleasant warning.

Definitely sounds like OP needs a holiday though.... So much stress. Jeeze. Of course, as others have pointed out, the escaping the rat race will be null and void when you're taking this kind of stuff... The closest I'd get to taking a TV on holiday with me tomorrow would be taking an eBook...

I have to agree with others though. Nobody needs hair straightners on a camping holiday. It's part of the experience. If you don't understand that, you really don't understand at all. Nor do you need Sky. It's about being relaxed for the weekend, not caring, and generally getting in touch with Nature, and yourself. Hell if I took kids on a holiday, I'd be encouraging them to climb trees, not watch X-Factor... If you have to watch some TV program, watch it on iPlayer etc...

Seeing as the OP is being so defiant though.. Just use SkyGo on some kind of device with WiFi. Which no doubt the campsite will probably have.

Some people really do make me despair...

As for getting all snappy at other members OP, that's just plain stupidity... Rule one of GD. If people annoy you, press that little X in the corner... Jeeze.

Skidder said:
To each their own, you take your satellite camping to make it more like being at home, I pooh in my garden to make home feel more like camping.
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Somehow you always manage to deliver jokes suited to your username...

kd
 
LOL seems like the OP is on his period with some of mardy replies;).

Camping and sky tv??..who woulda thunk it eh??:p
 
To me, camping is going out in the middle of nowhere, going back to basics, away from it all - the 'all' being the rush of today's modern life and all the ties that come with it.

It's not about taking life's comforts and gadgets with me. Whether that comfort or gadget be a mobile phone so somebody can distract me at their convenience, or Sky TV so I can be spammed with 5 minute adverts every 10 minutes, or taking a heater (lol?) with me to keep the chill off my feet.

Learn to make a fire, learn to put a whistling kettle on the fire for a cup of tea, learn how to deal without today's necessities.
 
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