12thSign
17th December, 2008, 08:11 PM
Can anyone help with an easy to understand guide to positioning a satilite dish & buying the correct equipment to get up & running?
I have been living in my current flat for 8 month's, a large dish is fixed to the outside of the building with a satelite connection inside. The dish is too big to be a sky dish, so I presume it must be a free to air dish or one suitable for something like a technomate to connect to it.
My neighbour tells me the previous occupier tried installing it himself but gave up trying to position the dish as it was too difficult & complicated to do. He also said the dish moves!
After reading the threads, I suspect he had a technomate receiver or something similar connected up. It's interesting to hear you can get live premiership football coverage from 3pm form other satelites, I don't know anything about receivers, dishes, satelites or how many there are.
Can anyone advise me of the following;
A good receiver (make & model) to buy?
How to set up the receiver to receive the broadcast?
How to correctly position the dish & what equipment if any are required?
What is patching & how to do it?
What is digital B?
I am a newbie & know nothing about patching, transponders, LNB's or how to set up from scratch without getting too technical.
Thanks
I have been living in my current flat for 8 month's, a large dish is fixed to the outside of the building with a satelite connection inside. The dish is too big to be a sky dish, so I presume it must be a free to air dish or one suitable for something like a technomate to connect to it.
My neighbour tells me the previous occupier tried installing it himself but gave up trying to position the dish as it was too difficult & complicated to do. He also said the dish moves!
After reading the threads, I suspect he had a technomate receiver or something similar connected up. It's interesting to hear you can get live premiership football coverage from 3pm form other satelites, I don't know anything about receivers, dishes, satelites or how many there are.
Can anyone advise me of the following;
A good receiver (make & model) to buy?
How to set up the receiver to receive the broadcast?
How to correctly position the dish & what equipment if any are required?
What is patching & how to do it?
What is digital B?
I am a newbie & know nothing about patching, transponders, LNB's or how to set up from scratch without getting too technical.
Thanks