TV and Satelite
Totally confused.
Can someone tell me exactly which TV and satalite to buy for my motorhome. No aerial hole in roof only ariel
conection at side of van. Sensible price but something that will definitely work well. Thank you for your help.
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short answer....no...
it sounds as if you know very little about the subject....
i could easily say, roof mounted teleco/oyster.....but then the questions.....
roof mounted or free standing?
single or twin lnb?
what satellite box do you want?
do you want the tuner to be built into the tv?
are you a sky subscriber?
where do you camp....uk only or europe?
which leads to .....size of dish?
....and auto skew??
how big a telly do you want?
12v only or mains, too?
do you ever camp away from ehu sites?
if you need someone to tell you which tv or which dish you need, i suspect you will be struggling to understand why i have posed some of these questions?
lastly, for now, budget???
an all singing roof mounted fully auto 85cm work anywhere (within reason) teleco is around £2k...
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It’s a bit like choosing a radio. You could by a little tranny or spend as much as you like. I bought a Snooper SatNav that can get digital TV. During an idle moment I tried it and it worked (with a siple aerial on the inside of the windscreen). I wouldn’t
recommend that route but it would be better than nothing. Next up is to look at an add-on for a laptop, if you have one. The top end of the range is Avtex. As for receiver, it rather depends on what you want to watch and where you will be.0 -
Even the cheapest set up (£50 for dish and box) will provide pictures of equal quality to the 2K version. Some of these cheepies are twin LMBs too. Watch out at Lidl and Aldi for these! That's what I have and its lasted for nearly 2 decades! Used my sky box on it too!
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Even the cheapest set up (£50 for dish and box) will provide pictures of equal quality to the 2K version. Some of these cheepies are twin LMBs too. Watch out at Lidl and Aldi for these! That's what I have and its lasted for nearly 2 decades!
Used my sky box on it too!....it certainly will, M, hence my question re budget....
however, whenever someone comes on and asks about a subject like this and its apparent they need help, attempting to explain how to set up a manual dish along with the different satellites and their positions will be extremely confusing.....hence the usage/geography
questions.perhaps the anwer is to go and visit an expert company and get a demo of a simple system working....then buy one.....but a freestanding dish in the hands of a novice will cause infinite frustration......
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You could browse >this site< for educational purposes. If you are not technical then I think you have little option but to leave it to reputable fitters to equip you with a simple to operate system. Trouble is the simple to operate systems don't come cheap. As your profile does not indicate what part of the country you are from or what kind of outfit you have, it is difficult to advise you further and as has been pointed out, what is your intended use?
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probably 'best compromise' for ease of use and price within uk is a dome.....but range is quite small....
we had a Camos Flatsat through the roof manual 'dish' on our previous van.....worked really well, long range for a small unit, easy to use....in fact the Snipe now uses the same 'aerial' technology and this might also be a good option.
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Even the cheapest set up (£50 for dish and box) will provide pictures of equal quality to the 2K version. Some of these cheepies are twin LMBs too. Watch out at Lidl and Aldi for these! That's what I have and its lasted for nearly 2 decades! Used my sky box on it too!
....it certainly will, M, hence my question re budget....
however, whenever someone comes on and asks about a subject like this and its apparent they need help, attempting to explain how to set up a manual dish along with the different satellites and their positions will be extremely confusing.....hence the usage/geography questions.
perhaps the anwer is to go and visit an expert company and get a demo of a simple system working....then buy one.....but a freestanding dish in the hands of a novice will cause infinite frustration......
To be honest B, my first system was a home made tripod and Lidl dish and box. I was a novice and although I practised at home first the technique was mastered quite quickly. With a really decent compass and the boxes inbuilt sat 'finder' I didn't experience much frustration. I think the main issue in my early days was realising how low in the sky the satelite beam was and judging the height of trees and building in the way which would obscure this, once I mastered that it was pretty much plain sailing. Choice of pitch was then half the battle!
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we have a satellite dish from Aldi's which we bought 2 years ago, does the job. We were looking at our dealers and asking him for his advice on satellite dishes which were going to cost around 200 pounds, we had seen the Aldi one and being the good dealer
he said we had nothing to lose buying the Aldi one for 50 UKP and seeing how we got on with it. We have been using it ever since. We did have problems where to place it as easy to knock over. Problem solved when I bought Aldi's tripod airer. We put it
up at front of caravan, attach the satellite dish to it, we use it for hanging out the towels to dry and drying clothes - multi-purpose. Only thing with the satelliite is no matter where we are it is ITV England we have to use 168 for local STV news but we
can get loads of channels on it. Had our 50 pounds worth x0 -
Totally confused.
Can someone tell me exactly which TV and satalite to buy for my motorhome. No aerial hole in roof only ariel conection at side of van. Sensible price but something that will definitely work well. Thank you for your help.First of all do you intend going to Europe, if yes then get a satellite dish and receiver for definate, if no then a good digital aerial is all you will need in the UK.
If you do go for a satellite dish and receiver for Europe you will need at the very least a 65cm dish this will give you UK tv just over half way down France, an 85cm dish will give you it down to almost the South of France but no further. As a few of the others have said you don't have to pay a fortune to get a dish/receiver and tripod. We bought a briefcase set from Aldi about 7 years ago we still have the receiver but have bought a new bigger dish as weknow go to Europe, we also use a tripod to mount the dish on, the advantage of this type of system is that you can place the dish anywhere on your pitch so it is easier to avoid trees. Try ebay there are usually sets available. It doesn't take much to learn how to use them, a bit of practice at home and then take it away and try it out. As for a tv set we have a 12/240v one its Cello, it has built in freeview, free sat, DVD player and a usb port, it also has built in Irish equivalent to freeview so would work in Eire. With the tv having 12v and everything built in we can use it when off grid. Hope this helps.
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Tammy whilst I agree that a digital aerial in the UK is generally fine it does depend where you go. In areas in the Lakes, parts of Wales and much of he Highland of Scotland we often need to use a sat dish as an aerial is blocked by the surounding hills.
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Tammy whilst I agree that a digital aerial in the UK is generally fine it does depend where you go. In areas in the Lakes, parts of Wales and much of he Highland of Scotland we often need to use a sat dish as an aerial is blocked by the surounding hills.
yes, there are many remote areas in GB which are not served by a terrestrial signal, so we carry both sat dish and an aerial. With regard to the latter this site may help
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I always take my dish. Otherwise I'd have to cook for myself.
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Sometimes in some areas it's the aerial on the caravan that's not up to the job, in anything other than strong signal area these omnis are no better than a coat hanger. Sometimes you need a huge domestic aerial to get even the basic channels.
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Sometimes in some areas it's the aerial on the caravan that's not up to the job, in anything other than strong signal area these omnis are no better than a coat hanger. Sometimes you need a huge domestic aerial to get even the basic channels.
We have an Omni self tuning one, have to say much,much better than the one we had previously on the caravans.
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I had a Glomex (flying saucer) aerial on my yacht which always picked up around sixty to seventy odd channels. It was at the top of a forty foot mast though.
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had our van a year now and still havent found the digital tv aerial
not that its an issue, it seems to work extremely well, although we generally use satellite......
it seems to be at least the equal of the previous directional 'status' that we had in the Bolero....
over New Year we used it (in lieu of the dish) as it was extremely windy, and it picked up all the normal channels straight away....our two pals we messing around with their staus aerials and really struggled to collect even the main home channels.....
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There are several factors at play when evaluating the effectiveness of an aerial. One is the quality of the signal, another the strength of the signal and a third, how good the aerial is itself. With regard to the first and second, even moving to the pitch next to you can have an effect! However, some designs of aerials just do not perform well in certain conditions, some designs do much better.
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