Sat dome or wind up dish

[Byronic]

Well, that would about do us, using the ariel, along with a smattering of DVD's. Bearing in mind that we move just about every day, would I have to re-tune the TV every time as well?

It often pays to retune each time you move as the chances are you'll bring in a few more stations, including local stations which may be useful. I find that most English (American) language programmes are dubbed into Spanish and the audio not transmitted, meaning that changing the language setting on the remote is usually ineffective, perhaps my telly lacks the latest technology! Max Discovery as already stated is mainly English language, another one was Nitro but seems to have gone awol this winter.

I speak Spanish but the missus doesn't, I leave her during the summer in the UK attempting to fill a compact 12v (adapter jumps power to 18v) 500GB harddrive recorder with interesting programmes, in lieu of DVDs. Never actually gets round to watching more than half of them, but good standby for rainy days in Espana.

 

[El Veterano]

It often pays to retune each time you move as the chances are you'll bring in a few more stations, including local stations which may be useful. I find that most English (American) language programmes are dubbed into Spanish and the audio not transmitted, meaning that changing the language setting on the remote is usually ineffective, perhaps my telly lacks the latest technology! Max Discovery as already stated is mainly English language, another one was Nitro but seems to have gone awol this winter.

I speak Spanish but the missus doesn't, I leave her during the summer in the UK attempting to fill a compact 12v (adapter jumps power to 18v) 500GB harddrive recorder with interesting programmes, in lieu of DVDs. Never actually gets round to watching more than half of them, but good standby for rainy days in Espana.

Yes, I hadn't considered that it might pull in a few more channels, but pretty obvious when you think about it. The downside of that for me is that although my Cello Traveller is only about a year old it is painfully slow at downloading a program list. I think I would stick to half a dozen DVD's instead of going down the external hard drive route. And we are the same, we never actually get round to watching half of them anyway. Last year we dragged a Megasat dome on the roof of the MH from UK right down to Gibraltar and nearly into Portugal and back again over about 5 weeks. After Northern France all it was doing was putting the fuel consumption up! So I am trying to avoid that scenario again

 

[Byronic]

Yes very definitely an individual decision as to just what efforts people go to get telly. I've seen Brits buy 2.4metre dishes in Morocco, and leave them behind of course lol. A visa lasts normally for 3 months so not a lot usage. Wifi or Sat. in the right campsite is an option.

But I think 4G internet TV will be the way to go for wilders, and already is heavily promoted as an option for Brit domestic apps. with a proxy server.

 

[Itch Scratchers]

4g TV

Yes very definitely an individual decision as to just what efforts people go to get telly. I've seen Brits buy 2.4metre dishes in Morocco, and leave them behind of course lol. A visa lasts normally for 3 months so not a lot usage. Wifi or Sat. in the right campsite is an option.

But I think 4G internet TV will be the way to go for wilders, and already is heavily promoted as an option for Brit domestic apps. with a proxy server.

Hi

Full timing in Spain we've been looking into 4g and can't find unlimited download due to "fair usage" policy I'm told so the max is 5gb. So currently we use a wifi connection from a bar, cafe or occasional campsite we stay on to download programmes from BBC iPlayer and C4OD. ITV only has catchup without download. You need a VPN of course which we use Witopia at about £4 per month. We've also got various series download such as Breaking Bad (brilliant if you've not seen it) and it's more than enough. However, there's also the Spanish Freeview which is obtained via the standard MH antenna which has been covered in previous posts.

 

[Itch Scratchers]

Oh and...

There's also English radio. TRE is available from Benidorm all the way down to Gibraltar and good listening

 

[El Veterano]

Hi

Full timing in Spain we've been looking into 4g and can't find unlimited download due to "fair usage" policy I'm told so the max is 5gb. So currently we use a wifi connection from a bar, cafe or occasional campsite we stay on to download programmes from BBC iPlayer and C4OD. ITV only has catchup without download. You need a VPN of course which we use Witopia at about £4 per month. We've also got various series download such as Breaking Bad (brilliant if you've not seen it) and it's more than enough. However, there's also the Spanish Freeview which is obtained via the standard MH antenna which has been covered in previous posts.

I'm sorry, but as much as I appreciate the information in your post I find all this 4g, C4OD, Witopia all too much for me. It sounds like I would be needing to take most of the contents of my office in the MH, and then be trying to find somewhere to plug it all in, let alone finding time to sit and watch it all. Spanish/ French Freeview through an old wire coat hanger seems the way to go for me.

 

[Deleted member 12539]

Thanks to all for your comments... the Snipe seems to me to be a good balance of value for money and does not increase the height of the m/h too much.
We usually take a few extra DVDs with us to add to our growing collection, although the TV is not that important, it is useful if the weather is not good.
I will be allowing £800 for the Snipe and its installation, but I would also need a decoder.

 

[Byronic]

There's also English radio. TRE is available from Benidorm all the way down to Gibraltar and good listening

And if within 20km of Gib. BFPS (Brit. Forces Radio) is available in FM. BBC Radio 4 on LW can be received as far as Gib. but not guaranteed, distance weather and geography all have varying effects. Can pick it up just about everywhere in western France, all on standard car unit and aerial.

 

[Canalsman]

Thanks to all for your comments... the Snipe seems to me to be a good balance of value for money and does not increase the height of the m/h too much.
We usually take a few extra DVDs with us to add to our growing collection, although the TV is not that important, it is useful if the weather is not good.
I will be allowing £800 for the Snipe and its installation, but I would also need a decoder.

Let us know how you get on please ...

I might consider one too.

 

[Wooie1958]

Thanks to all for your comments... the Snipe seems to me to be a good balance of value for money and does not increase the height of the m/h too much.
We usually take a few extra DVDs with us to add to our growing collection, although the TV is not that important, it is useful if the weather is not good.
I will be allowing £800 for the Snipe and its installation, but I would also need a decoder.

Let us know how you get on please ...

I might consider one too.

Same here,

i`ve got a Multimo Mobile dish at the moment which works very well but i`m thinking of an automatic one.

 

[yeoblade]

Thanks to all for your comments... the Snipe seems to me to be a good balance of value for money and does not increase the height of the m/h too much.
We usually take a few extra DVDs with us to add to our growing collection, although the TV is not that important, it is useful if the weather is not good.
I will be allowing £800 for the Snipe and its installation, but I would also need a decoder.

I purchased this openbox v8 new version uk plug openbox upgrade from v5s and skybox f5s uk stock | eBaysat box from ebay. It has a 12v input from the supplied mains adapter so just plug straight into the 12vdc van plug, works a treat.

Whilst the reception is perfect in UK & Benelux area I will be travelling south through France later on so will be interested in the reception and point where it drops out, compared to a Dish.

 

[El Veterano]

I purchased this openbox v8 new version uk plug openbox upgrade from v5s and skybox f5s uk stock | eBaysat box from ebay. It has a 12v input from the supplied mains adapter so just plug straight into the 12vdc van plug, works a treat.

Whilst the reception is perfect in UK & Benelux area I will be travelling south through France later on so will be interested in the reception and point where it drops out, compared to a Dish.

As it has to get its signal from a dish I would imagine it would loose signal in more or less the same way as any other receiver, and would remain totally dependent on dish size.

 

[yeoblade]

As it has to get its signal from a dish I would imagine it would loose signal in more or less the same way as any other receiver, and would remain totally dependent on dish size.

Yes it would.

They're two separate points I was making, the receiver would make little difference, just sharing the availability of buying a 12vdc reciever for a reasonable price, And I will be interested in how the flat panel 'dish' will be in comparision to a normal dish/LNB set up. The Snipe panel isn't that big so I'm not expecting a fantastic performance from it as we head south, we'll see

 

[El Veterano]

Yes it would.

They're two separate points I was making, the receiver would make little difference, just sharing the availability of buying a 12vdc reciever for a reasonable price, And I will be interested in how the flat panel 'dish' will be in comparision to a normal dish/LNB set up. The Snipe panel isn't that big so I'm not expecting a fantastic performance from it as we head south, we'll see

An interesting post and I will be interested in the outcome, as I too have looked at the Snipe panel. But I have my doubts! Look forward to the results.

 

[Tezza33]

Yes it would.

They're two separate points I was making, the receiver would make little difference, just sharing the availability of buying a 12vdc reciever for a reasonable price, And I will be interested in how the flat panel 'dish' will be in comparision to a normal dish/LNB set up. The Snipe panel isn't that big so I'm not expecting a fantastic performance from it as we head south, we'll see

The receiver does make a difference as well, I use a Dreambox which is also 12v and does the same type of thing as the open box, it has a very sensitive tuner so picks up weak signals as well as having the benefit of being 12v so not needing an inverter, I am not a fan of flat panel dishes myself because with a normal dish you can replace the LNB with one of your choice, again I opt for a very low LNB noise figure of .1db which will also work well with weak signals and can be replaced for £20 if you have problems, I have been parked up with others using 85cm automatic dishes and with my manual 65cm dish I have picked up channels they cannot get, I actually carry a spare LNB just in case (I would carry a spare Wife if I could get away with it) try checking the price of a flat panel LNB if you need to replace it in the middle of Europe

 

[scek]

We've got a crank up maxi view. Takes less than a minute to get it up and running.
We use an app which tells us where to point the dish and also the angle.
One turn of the handle = 1 deg. So if the app says 25.6 its 25 1/2 /turns and aim it where the app says.
We had it up in gale force winds and its never moved.
Installed it myself in 3 hours. Used the big hole in the roof where the TV aerial went through. Drilled 2 small holes for the 2 cables (twin lnb), bonded and screwed the unit to the roof and finish off inside running the cables, just used the original TV cable.I had a quote of between £350 and £450 for installation depending on how the job went. Rip off !

 

[Tezza33]

We've got a crank up maxi view. Takes less than a minute to get it up and running.
We use an app which tells us where to point the dish and also the angle.
One turn of the handle = 1 deg. So if the app says 25.6 its 25 1/2 /turns and aim it where the app says.
We had it up in gale force winds and its never moved.
Installed it myself in 3 hours. Used the big hole in the roof where the TV aerial went through. Drilled 2 small holes for the 2 cables (twin lnb), bonded and screwed the unit to the roof and finish off inside running the cables, just used the original TV cable.I had a quote of between £350 and £450 for installation depending on how the job went. Rip off !

We have sat watching an automatic dish circling around and not locking because the signal isn't strong and we have ours within a few minutes, I would not pay the extra for an automatic dish

 

[Wooie1958]

We have sat watching an automatic dish circling around and not locking because the signal isn't strong and we have ours within a few minutes, I would not pay the extra for an automatic dish

That`s precisely why i went for the Multimo Mobile dish instead of a fixed one in the first place.

On a couple of occasions last year in France the fixed set ups couldn`t get a signal because of the trees on the aires.

I used a coax extension and set mine up on a little table on the ground at the front of the van so it picked up the signal from underneath the trees.

On one of them there was 2 other UK women and the wife sat in my van all watching Emmerdale and Corrie :rolleyes2:

I`m still undecided whether to get a Snipe

 

[jagmanx]

We are not Desperate for Live TV

Yes it would.

They're two separate points I was making, the receiver would make little difference, just sharing the availability of buying a 12vdc reciever for a reasonable price, And I will be interested in how the flat panel 'dish' will be in comparision to a normal dish/LNB set up. The Snipe panel isn't that big so I'm not expecting a fantastic performance from it as we head south, we'll see

However.

We have an AVtex TV and my first choice would be the SNIPE..... Mainly for its convenience and "matching".
Look forward to you evaluation !

 

[ozzo]

any comparison to the VuQube by anyone?