Setting up a dish.... HELP!

alanbb

Hope you guys can help, and I apologise if this in the FAQ's or the wrong forum!

I want to install a dish in a mobile home down the country, and was wondering how to go about it.
I have been given a Sky dish by someone who has had Sky but gone back to NTL. They have also given me the Sky box as well as the dish. Is there any way I can rig these up to receive even a basic few channels?

Really in the dark here, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Tony

Take a look at the video in the DIY section of my website http://www.satellite.ie/acatalog/DIY_satellite_systems.html at the bottom of the page

jonathan11

You should be able to get the free to view channels with what you have, BBC1/2/3/4 ITV, Film4 etc etc.

You will also need....

• a satellite finder, these are easy to pick up in elecltrical shops.
• some coax cable, you can get this in B&Q
• a compass is handy although not 100% necessary, it gives you a good start point and then you move the dish over and back a couple of degrees until the sat finder picks it up...

alanbb

Cheers lads, very helpful.

So basically, the Sky box that I have should pick up those channels simply by connecting to the dish. (Once the dish is pointing in the correct direction of course)

Tony

Yes thats correct

alanbb wrote: »

Cheers lads, very helpful.

So basically, the Sky box that I have should pick up those channels simply by connecting to the dish. (Once the dish is pointing in the correct direction of course)

Mountjoy Mugger

Had a quick look at your link to the aligning a dish page, Tony.

Very informative!

I particularily like the "Waving a dish about in the deluded hope ..."

Tony

Mountjoy Mugger wrote: »

I particularily like the "Waving a dish about in the deluded hope ..."

Must have missed that bit

sweetie

jonathan11 wrote: »

You should be able to get the free to view channels with what you have, BBC1/2/3/4 ITV, Film4 etc etc.

You will also need....

• a satellite finder, these are easy to pick up in elecltrical shops.
• a compass is handy although not 100% necessary, it gives you a good start point and then you move the dish over and back a couple of degrees until the sat finder picks it up...

I managed to do it without these two. Handy to know what way south-southwest is though.

Zaphod

Tony wrote: »

Take a look at the video in the DIY section of my website

I never knew Brad Pitt installed satellite dishes in his spare time.

Tony

He had to give it up and he was held captive several times by customers for hours on end

Zaphod wrote: »

I never knew Brad Pitt installed satellite dishes in his spare time.