Sat dish for garden and new panasonic 42" plasma

[davidd]

After some sage words from Der I have just ordered a fantastic panasonic 42 v10 thing (sounds like a german bomb).

Which will be mega, it will be more mega if we can I can get a satellite dish up and running. We live in a grade II house so no dish on the house. I have space in teh garden where I can shove one but I was not sure what to buy or how to mount it....

I was thinking of..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Raven-60cm-Satellite-Dish-Ki...

Thoughts from people who know would be appreciated.

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[headcase]

Is there anything in the garden to mount it to? If not then find a suitable place in the garden that would not have a tree/hedge in lign of sight of the satellite, dig a hole, drop a pole in it and cement it it (straight and level of course) then clamp the dish to the pole, align and job done.

For a freesat tv you only need 1 LNB connection so if you think your not going to use the other 3 that are available you may find a cheaper one with a single lnb.

[DaveR]

Sourcing a dish should be easy - it's mounting it on something suitably solid that requires the thought. If it's any distance from your house, use some decent cable too. I got mine from Satcure - who I see also do patio stands for dish mounting...

[E31Shrew]

davidd said:

After some sage words from Der I have just ordered a fantastic panasonic 42 v10 thing (sounds like a german bomb).

Which will be mega, it will be more mega if we can I can get a satellite dish up and running. We live in a grade II house so no dish on the house. I have space in teh garden where I can shove one but I was not sure what to buy or how to mount it....

I was thinking of..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Raven-60cm-Satellite-Dish-Ki...

Thoughts from people who know would be appreciated.

D

Our house is listed also but back garden faces south. As long as you can get line of sight facing south east it shouldn't be a problem. I wouldn't have thought that these days any local busy body would take ant note of a dish on a Grade 2 listed house.

[talkssense]

I've used these a couple of times and they might be worth as look. Would definately be worth seeing one for real though, they can just look really cheap, like a few of the examples on their website

http://www.sqish.co.uk/

[davidd]

Right, sorry I got a little sidetracked then.

So could I get away with..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sky-Freesat-Satellite-Dish-L...

Obvioulsy I need to buy a bit of cable but thats hardly a hardship..

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