Satellite Dish for Europe
We are going to South of France and Northern Spain and have bought a Humax reciever and are looking at the Satgear Premium 80cm satellite dish or the Maxview MV012 75cm satellite dish.
The Satgear dish is about £120 cheaper.
Has anyone used either of these dishes? Can you advise which one is best?
Many thanks
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In getting a reliable satellite signal that far south size does matter. On our previous motorhome we had an 85cms dish and we got UK terrestrial TV (BBC1,BBC2, ITV,Channel 4,etc) as far south as Carcassonne. You may well get other English language programmes further south but the ones I have mentioned will fade out the further south you go. The Easy Find option might prevent a lot of frustration in finding the signal.
David
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You should be OK with an 85CM down to the south of France but Northern Spain is a dead spot. You can get it as you head south but you really need a 1m dish.
Have a look at
https://www.satbeams.com/footprints?beam=7491
Or just search 'Sat Footprint 28.2' or 'dish size 28.2' and read the masses of tech stuff about dishes etc.
The issue is that you will run out of signal at the France/Spain border, but you may get lucky and hit a warm spot to half way down Spain. You then need to look for other satellites that carry something watchable, this will drive you mad, there are dozens of them and millions of channels. Research before you go. There are UK channels on some euro satellites but it gets complicated as they are encrypted and only certain tuners will get them, or some use the BBC Satback system broadcast on the Intelsat 907 27.5W satellite, but there are complications to this.
Take some DVDs.
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We have a free standing 85cm dish and have received UK (BBC 1, BBC2, ITV, CH4 ) when we were in Agde last Sept/Oct. We don't have anything fancy just a dish , tripod and LNB. OH is quite good and at times patient finding the signal. We also received uk channels while at Cavalaire-sur-Mer.
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as TG says, 85cm will cover most of France and after that it gets a bit tricky...
we've been right down to the west of the Algarve and easily picked up our Sky package channels (sports, movies, Sky one, atlantic etc) as these are not broadcast on the small UK spot beam like the BBC is...
they are on a larger Pan Euro beam which only needs a small dish...
however, you need to be a sky subscriber and bring a sky digibox and card with you to get these...
also as mentioned earlier, the 907 Intelsat carries a 'backup' copy of all uk channels but needs a 'special' decoder to access them...
weve been away for 10 weeks and have been without the 'normal' uk channels for most of that....we crossed into France a couple of days ago....uk tv....great....
had a look at the listings and, guess what, hardly a program worth looking at....
have we missed it? a resounding No...
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I don't bother taking the TV when we go abroad. Digressing to 'over here' for a moment, the terrestrial signal at Warwick seemed quite patchy with the picture breaking up every time a plane flew into BHX.
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Good info here but does anybody know if an avtex tv with an installed Sat receiver fitted and an 80cm dish will pick up any UK tv in southern germany?
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