Sky dish built into a Freeview aerial? was Crystal Palace Freeview

.... if I look around her
neighbourhood and elsewhere in north London (say Walthamstow to
Enfield area) I see loads of simply enormous external high-gain
widebands...

Just the reflector on these aerials is larger than a Sky mini-dish, and the
aerial is much longer front to back. TV aerials are now bigger than Sky
dishes, but people can use them where they could not get planning or
landlord permission for a dish.

Could someone make a new type of Sky mini-dish that was DISGUISED as an
"enormous external high-gain wideband" Freeview TV aerial, and help out
people who can't get permission for a normal dish?

You could use transparent dish material or wire mesh for the top half of the
TV aerial's reflector so it would work like a standard offset mini-dish,
then hide the LNB among the director elements on the main shaft of the
"ordinary TV aerial".

It shouldn't even have to be tilted upwards towards the sky because of the
normal principle of offset dishes whereby the arm holding the LNB is almost
horizontal anyway. The only thing that might look odd about this "TV aerial"
is that it could be pointing in a different direction from other aerials,
but that would not be enough to upset a landlord or local authority who
would otherwise object to a dish.

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:58:17 +0100, "Stephen"
wrote:


|Could someone make a new type of Sky mini-dish that was DISGUISED as an
|"enormous external high-gain wideband" Freeview TV aerial, and help out
|people who can't get permission for a normal dish?


Alternatively there is one combined with a light.
http://www.sdsdigital.co.uk/Digiglob...sh-pr-615.html

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In article , Stephen [email protected]
nkmail.sptv.demon.co.uk writes
.... if I look around her
neighbourhood and elsewhere in north London (say Walthamstow to
Enfield area) I see loads of simply enormous external high-gain
widebands...

Just the reflector on these aerials is larger than a Sky mini-dish, and the
aerial is much longer front to back. TV aerials are now bigger than Sky
dishes, but people can use them where they could not get planning or
landlord permission for a dish.

Its still a stupid silly class thing..a skydish....

Could someone make a new type of Sky mini-dish that was DISGUISED as an
"enormous external high-gain wideband" Freeview TV aerial, and help out
people who can't get permission for a normal dish?

Yep just shows how stupid it all is!..

You could use transparent dish material or wire mesh for the top half of the
TV aerial's reflector so it would work like a standard offset mini-dish,
then hide the LNB among the director elements on the main shaft of the
"ordinary TV aerial".

It shouldn't even have to be tilted upwards towards the sky because of the
normal principle of offset dishes whereby the arm holding the LNB is almost
horizontal anyway. The only thing that might look odd about this "TV aerial"
is that it could be pointing in a different direction from other aerials,
but that would not be enough to upset a landlord or local authority who
would otherwise object to a dish.







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