Installing/buying own dish

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FeFiDoh

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Anyone here have their own dish? I don't mean Sky one. It is true that you can pick up some of the Euro ones and in turn means you get a lot of the sport that would normally not be shown here or mean paying for Sky sports?

It was something I considered a while back and only recently thought of again but have no idea on any kind of equipment that may be needed, how difficult it is, what can be picked up.

Thanks
 
There's loads of stuff here to wet you appetite for having a go. Static dishes and multi dishes are a doddle to set up. A compass and a cheap signal meter will do the trick. Even motorised dishes are fairly easy so long as you have a little patience. There is tons of lit out there once you start looking, receiver, mounts.

A few years back I was quite into it but now I don't bother so have lost track of what is up there and free. I've just had a quick look at these sites and I quite surprised how cheap some of the stuff is now.

Have a little look here to get a taste

http://www.satellitesuperstore.com/dishes.htm

http://www.aerialsuperstore.co.uk/satellite-dishes-13-c.asp

Hope I'm OK with the links. It's not PC stuff. Delete if it breaks any rules..
 
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I do remember when looking before the dishes were quite reasonably priced and needing some sort of alignment thing to pick up a signal strength, those dishes are even cheaper now as you say so seems pretty good value for money. I just have no idea what satellites there are and what you can get? That is the more interesting aspect as it would be nice to see what I could view. With ESPN leaving VM and sport just being across to many providers and services out there I am getting bit fed up of needing so many subscriptions.
 
last time i looked into this you need a motorised satellite and a decent motor (due to wind) and a decent stand (due to wind) but even then they are only rated to last up to 100mph and recently we had winds over that within the past few years up here in scotland anyway and peoples dishes were bent out shape or ripped the stand loose from the house, etc.

unless of course you have a huge back garden with lots and lots of space where you can stick a MASSIVE motorised dish into the ground and bolt it there.

anyway the dish and the motor and the stand would come to roughly £250 for a decent setup then another £50-150 to install it.

you may also want to upgrade the LNB to a better one or one with more outputs, again another few ££.

now you need to buy a sat box which can control the dish.

if you want a HD one and one which can record, this is where things start to get expensive. boxes costing £200-£500 each.

now again if you are wanting this for sports, then again a lot of the matches being shown on sky sports, espn or BT most likely wont be on the free european sat channels it will be another match, so if man utd vs man city is on sky sports, the game you will be able to get will be wigan vs sunderland, etc.

another thing to consider is, it wont be in english, sometimes it will be but most of the time it wont be.

to pay all that money for a dish, motor, stand, lnb, HD boxes and then an engineer to install it all, it would actually be cheaper to pay a sky subscription for 2 years. at least that way you can actually enjoy the top games and in ENGLISH.

if your tight about money there are illegal ways of being able to watch the top games in English for pennies or even for free, but those cannot be discussed here. imo this is the option you are wanting to look into. google "card sharing"
 
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