steve121
Guest
hi i going to buy a roof mounted satellite dish 66cm maxview and humax hd receiver for europe can anyone tell me if its ok steve
Jacques le foot
Guest
Have no experience of the make you are looking at, but we have an Oyster dish, and have no trouble at all, in most places over Europe. We have even changed to the southern transponder and got our favourite 'midlands' progs down in Dubrovnic, Croatia. Needless to say, close trees give a problem if they in the line of sight to the satellite..just a move a few feet either way usually solves the prob.
Regards,
Jackie
P.S. Our receiver came with the 'instalation', and the sky card cost £20..one off payment...certainly enough progs for the viewing you need on hols.
Regards,
Jackie
P.S. Our receiver came with the 'instalation', and the sky card cost £20..one off payment...certainly enough progs for the viewing you need on hols.
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Pioneer
Guest
Hi,
fitted a Maxview 66cm dish to my Motorhome, the windup version, and can honestly say have had excellent reception through it. Takes less than 2mins to find the signal from astra or any other satelite that is pre programmed into the reciever.
For Southern Europe, the larger the dish the better, you will struggle to get some programmes from Astra with the 66cm dish.
Some say they have recieved Astra signal in the S of France, well yes if you want to whatch repeated 24 hr BBC news and Sky News, I have had these in Southern Spain, Portugal and the S of France.
But, the dish is worth it, and does not take up valuable storage space.
If I have a critisism about it, the LNB mounted roof guide gets rusty, so put more paint on it before mounting the dish.(white car spray paint does the trick).
Happy Camping
fitted a Maxview 66cm dish to my Motorhome, the windup version, and can honestly say have had excellent reception through it. Takes less than 2mins to find the signal from astra or any other satelite that is pre programmed into the reciever.
For Southern Europe, the larger the dish the better, you will struggle to get some programmes from Astra with the 66cm dish.
Some say they have recieved Astra signal in the S of France, well yes if you want to whatch repeated 24 hr BBC news and Sky News, I have had these in Southern Spain, Portugal and the S of France.
But, the dish is worth it, and does not take up valuable storage space.
If I have a critisism about it, the LNB mounted roof guide gets rusty, so put more paint on it before mounting the dish.(white car spray paint does the trick).
Happy Camping
steve121
Guest
hi thanks for the advice it was helpful