Lidl sat system

Hi my 80 year old mum lives in a house rented from the National Trust for
Scotland and can only receive the four channels and when the area is
converted to digital in 2010 she will only receive the minimum channels. The
National Trust for Scotland will not allow her to have a satellite dish in
view on the building or in the garden. Of course, Sky will not install a
system on the property. So I have come with the idea of buying the satellite
system from Lidl and siting the dish in the garden and concealing it with a
box of some kind. Is this feasable? The dish will be able to see the
satellite from her garden. Also will this system be as easy to use as Sky
for an 80 year old? e.g is there an epg?

Thanks for any advice and ideas so my mum can get channel 5 and the other
BBC and ITV channels.

Dave

"Davie" wrote in message
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Hi my 80 year old mum lives in a house rented from the National Trust
for Scotland and can only receive the four channels and when the area
is converted to digital in 2010 she will only receive the minimum
channels. The National Trust for Scotland will not allow her to have a
satellite dish in view on the building or in the garden. Of course,
Sky will not install a system on the property. So I have come with the
idea of buying the satellite system from Lidl and siting the dish in
the garden and concealing it with a box of some kind. Is this
feasable? The dish will be able to see the satellite from her garden.
Also will this system be as easy to use as Sky for an 80 year old? e.g
is there an epg?

Thanks for any advice and ideas so my mum can get channel 5 and the
other BBC and ITV channels.

Dave



Do you think your Mum will want to watch anything other than the basic
channels? The novelty soon wears off you know. After DSO she will have
BBC1-4, Parliament, ITV1-4, More 4, E4, Film 4, Dave, a host of shopping
channels, several news channels, and any radio she wants except
ClassicFM. Isn't that enough - at 80+???

otherwise, get a secondhand Sky box and buy a FreeSat card from Sky. Buy
a (large) Sky dish and hide it somewhere in the garden - it only has to
be placed so that it cannot be seen by the public and maybe even paint
it green or brown. The only criteria is that the dish must have a clear
sight at about 150deg bearing and about 40deg up (relative to horizontal
ground) and must be stable in all weather conditions. It is unlikely to
work inside a box of any sort although if you use polycarbonate for the
windows it should work inside a shed.

None of the receivers other than Sky will get 4 or five as they are
encrypted, although that may change next year when the BBC get their
FreeSat service up and running.


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Woody

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In article , Davie
scribeth thus
Hi my 80 year old mum lives in a house rented from the National Trust for
Scotland and can only receive the four channels and when the area is
converted to digital in 2010 she will only receive the minimum channels. The
National Trust for Scotland will not allow her to have a satellite dish in
view on the building or in the garden. Of course, Sky will not install a
system on the property. So I have come with the idea of buying the satellite
system from Lidl and siting the dish in the garden and concealing it with a
box of some kind. Is this feasable? The dish will be able to see the
satellite from her garden. Also will this system be as easy to use as Sky
for an 80 year old? e.g is there an epg?

Thanks for any advice and ideas so my mum can get channel 5 and the other
BBC and ITV channels.

Dave



Another example of how badly thought through the digital changeover has
been done.

And the British obsession with the satellite dish = BAD!!!..

Course she can put up a bloody great TV aerial I very much expect but a
sat dish can work sometimes in very low locations like the back yard if
it can "see" the satellites. And the Sat answer is still yet to come
before you'll get channels 4 and 5.

I'd just go and do it and then take the barstewards to the European
court of human rights!...

Bloody stupid shower but the sound of it!...
--
Tony Sayer

In article , Woody
scribeth thus

"Davie" wrote in message
o.uk...
Hi my 80 year old mum lives in a house rented from the National Trust
for Scotland and can only receive the four channels and when the area
is converted to digital in 2010 she will only receive the minimum
channels. The National Trust for Scotland will not allow her to have a
satellite dish in view on the building or in the garden. Of course,
Sky will not install a system on the property. So I have come with the
idea of buying the satellite system from Lidl and siting the dish in
the garden and concealing it with a box of some kind. Is this
feasable? The dish will be able to see the satellite from her garden.
Also will this system be as easy to use as Sky for an 80 year old? e.g
is there an epg?

Thanks for any advice and ideas so my mum can get channel 5 and the
other BBC and ITV channels.

Dave



Do you think your Mum will want to watch anything other than the basic
channels? The novelty soon wears off you know. After DSO she will have
BBC1-4, Parliament, ITV1-4, More 4, E4, Film 4, Dave, a host of shopping
channels, several news channels, and any radio she wants except
ClassicFM. Isn't that enough - at 80+???

otherwise, get a secondhand Sky box and buy a FreeSat card from Sky. Buy
a (large) Sky dish and hide it somewhere in the garden - it only has to
be placed so that it cannot be seen by the public and maybe even paint
it green or brown. The only criteria is that the dish must have a clear
sight at about 150deg bearing and about 40deg up (relative to horizontal
ground) and must be stable in all weather conditions. It is unlikely to
work inside a box of any sort although if you use polycarbonate for the
windows it should work inside a shed.

Good advice there from me old mucker but what a bloody silly buggers
thing to have to do!..

None of the receivers other than Sky will get 4 or five as they are
encrypted, although that may change next year when the BBC get their
FreeSat service up and running.



--
Tony Sayer

"Davie" wrote in message
.uk...
Hi my 80 year old mum lives in a house rented from the National Trust for
Scotland and can only receive the four channels and when the area is
converted to digital in 2010 she will only receive the minimum channels.
The National Trust for Scotland will not allow her to have a satellite
dish in view on the building or in the garden. Of course, Sky will not
install a system on the property. So I have come with the idea of buying
the satellite system from Lidl and siting the dish in the garden and
concealing it with a box of some kind. Is this feasable? The dish will be
able to see the satellite from her garden. Also will this system be as
easy to use as Sky for an 80 year old? e.g is there an epg?

Thanks for any advice and ideas so my mum can get channel 5 and the other
BBC and ITV channels.



that won't work then - you need a sky box plus card to get channel 5 - and
4.
you can however get concealed dishes that connect to a regular sky box.




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Gareth.

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"Woody" wrote in message
...
otherwise, get a secondhand Sky box and buy a FreeSat card from Sky. Buy a
(large) Sky dish
Zone 2

and hide it somewhere in the garden - it only has to
be placed so that it cannot be seen by the public and maybe even paint it
green or brown. The only criteria is that the dish must have a clear sight
at about 150deg bearing and about 40deg up (relative to horizontal ground)
More like 23deg

and must be stable in all weather conditions. It is unlikely to
work inside a box of any sort although if you use polycarbonate for the
windows it should work inside a shed.
We usually put the dish behind a wicker or similar fence thing, so it looks
like a compost heap.

All this is so that that tourists can walk past snapping away and be fooled
into thinking "Isn't it bucolic?" when in actual fact the people who
actually have to live there 365 days a years need satellite telly and proper
double glazing and all the other mod cons. If I had my way I'd do away with
all these silly planning regs concerning people's private houses.

Bill

I'd be a bit worried about a box getting dirty and cutting the signal. It
really needs to be made from GRP of a grade used in radomes etc, and to be
honest, I'd have no idea where to start looking for something like that. I'm
sure that this hidden aerial syndrome comes up quite often though, so I bet
someone out there makes systems that look like something else!

Brian

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"Davie" wrote in message
.uk...
Hi my 80 year old mum lives in a house rented from the National Trust for
Scotland and can only receive the four channels and when the area is
converted to digital in 2010 she will only receive the minimum channels.
The National Trust for Scotland will not allow her to have a satellite
dish in view on the building or in the garden. Of course, Sky will not
install a system on the property. So I have come with the idea of buying
the satellite system from Lidl and siting the dish in the garden and
concealing it with a box of some kind. Is this feasable? The dish will be
able to see the satellite from her garden. Also will this system be as
easy to use as Sky for an 80 year old? e.g is there an epg?

Thanks for any advice and ideas so my mum can get channel 5 and the other
BBC and ITV channels.

Dave

You can buy dishes disguised as garden lamps & various other things. I can't
remember where I'm afraid (do a google search?)

Sat receivers can be pretty cheap these days. It might be better to go to an
online dealer who knows a bit more than the Lidl staff.

From a recent thread in this forum, it looks like Channel 4+E4+More4 will be
free to air soon so it wll only be Channel 5 that needs any kind of card.


"Davie" wrote in message
.uk...
Hi my 80 year old mum lives in a house rented from the National Trust for
Scotland and can only receive the four channels and when the area is
converted to digital in 2010 she will only receive the minimum channels.
The National Trust for Scotland will not allow her to have a satellite
dish in view on the building or in the garden. Of course, Sky will not
install a system on the property. So I have come with the idea of buying
the satellite system from Lidl and siting the dish in the garden and
concealing it with a box of some kind. Is this feasable? The dish will be
able to see the satellite from her garden. Also will this system be as
easy to use as Sky for an 80 year old? e.g is there an epg?

Thanks for any advice and ideas so my mum can get channel 5 and the other
BBC and ITV channels.

Dave

In article , Bill Wright
scribeth thus

"Woody" wrote in message
...
otherwise, get a secondhand Sky box and buy a FreeSat card from Sky. Buy a
(large) Sky dish
Zone 2

and hide it somewhere in the garden - it only has to
be placed so that it cannot be seen by the public and maybe even paint it
green or brown. The only criteria is that the dish must have a clear sight
at about 150deg bearing and about 40deg up (relative to horizontal ground)
More like 23deg

and must be stable in all weather conditions. It is unlikely to
work inside a box of any sort although if you use polycarbonate for the
windows it should work inside a shed.
We usually put the dish behind a wicker or similar fence thing, so it looks
like a compost heap.

All this is so that that tourists can walk past snapping away and be fooled
into thinking "Isn't it bucolic?" when in actual fact the people who
actually have to live there 365 days a years need satellite telly and proper
double glazing and all the other mod cons. If I had my way I'd do away with
all these silly planning regs concerning people's private houses.

Bill



Yep absolutely barking the whole system;!....
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Tony Sayer

In article , Peter
Munks scribeth thus
You can buy dishes disguised as garden lamps & various other things. I can't
remember where I'm afraid (do a google search?)


What no one can answer is why is a lump of ally and plastic shaped like
a Thelves DAT 45 or similar considered more "worthy" then the same metal
and plastic shaped like a satellite aerial?.....


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Tony Sayer