Northern Ireland sky dish size??

[seanmckeown]

what size of dish would i need for basic freesat in northern ireland?

i've seen many sites saying a 43cm might not work but some other sites saying they would be ok.

does anybody have any first hand experience on this?

[patkins]

Hi Sean, you should have no problem if you get a 60cm dish to be on the safe side, but if in the future you want to expand to other sats. maybe now is the time to go bigger with,say, a 1m motorised set up.

[cauliflower69]

You may have problems with certain transponders with a zone 1 dish. Go for a zone 2 and all will be fine

[seanmckeown]

its not for my house, just for a caravan, so not too fussed if dont get all the channels

[cauliflower69]

for the sake of ease of install alone I would go for the zone 2 dish as you would have to fine tune the smaller dish more to peak signal.

[Bonesy]

I recommend a 90cm motorised dish, have it in Belfast here and gets thousands of channels without problems.

[cauliflower69]

Its not for his house he said it was just for his caravan

[Thomo]

Used a zone2 many of times on the north coast with no problems, now changed it to a zone 1 and get the same signal results, hope this helps seanmckeown.

[DMBoot]

I recommend a 90cm motorised dish, have it in Belfast here and gets thousands of channels without problems.

What satellites do you reliably pick up with that?

Particularly beyond 5 West.

[digicon]

What satellites do you reliably pick up with that?

Particularly beyond 5 West.

You do realise that this thread is 3 years old, maybe open a new one with the question you want answering

[DMBoot]

You do realise that this thread is 3 years old, maybe open a new one with the question you want answering

I saw that but I did a search and spotted a thread already existed and that the user I asked the question to has the same size dish as I'm putting up was on the forum tonight at 8:38pm.