Dish question

Re my earlier Sky box Q I have decided to go for a Humax 500GB Freesat box - thanks for the helpful advice.

Now the dish. Could I get away with mounting the dish in the loft if I use a zone 2 dish?
I am in North Surrey so a zone 1 dish should work when mounted outside.
Will the increase in gain between a zone 1 and 2 dish make up for the signal absorption due to timber and red tile roof?

Can anyone suggest any cheap dish kit suppliers in or around Surrey / London that I could pick up from? or alternatively a mail
order supplier.

Thanks

Alt Beer wrote:

Now the dish. Could I get away with mounting the dish in the loft if I
use a zone 2 dish?
I am in North Surrey so a zone 1 dish should work when mounted outside.
Will the increase in gain between a zone 1 and 2 dish make up for the
signal absorption due to timber and red tile roof?

It is not just the absorption, it is the noise that is radiated. The
sky at satellite frequencies is less than 10K. The front end probably
increases that quite a bit, but not to the 300+K of a loft roof in the
Summer.

My gut feeling is, unless you have a radome panel in the loft (which may
be against building regs) there is no hope.

In article , Alt Beer
wrote:
Re my earlier Sky box Q I have decided to go for a Humax 500GB Freesat
box - thanks for the helpful advice.

Now the dish. Could I get away with mounting the dish in the loft if I
use a zone 2 dish? I am in North Surrey so a zone 1 dish should work when
mounted outside. Will the increase in gain between a zone 1 and 2 dish
make up for the signal absorption due to timber and red tile roof?

NO!

Can anyone suggest any cheap dish kit suppliers in or around Surrey /
London that I could pick up from? or alternatively a mail order supplier.

Thanks





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"Alt Beer" wrote in message
...
Re my earlier Sky box Q I have decided to go for a Humax 500GB Freesat
box - thanks for the helpful advice.

Now the dish. Could I get away with mounting the dish in the loft if I
use a zone 2 dish?
I am in North Surrey so a zone 1 dish should work when mounted outside.
Will the increase in gain between a zone 1 and 2 dish make up for the
signal absorption due to timber and red tile roof?

No.


Can anyone suggest any cheap dish kit suppliers in or around Surrey /
London that I could pick up from? or alternatively a mail order supplier.

If they are still going Spectrum in Croydon - bought my first setup from
them 15 years ago.



Thanks

"Alt Beer" wrote:
Re my earlier Sky box Q I have decided to go for a Humax 500GB Freesat
box - thanks for the helpful advice.

Now the dish. Could I get away with mounting the dish in the loft if I use a zone 2 dish?
I am in North Surrey so a zone 1 dish should work when mounted outside.
Will the increase in gain between a zone 1 and 2 dish make up for the
signal absorption due to timber and red tile roof?

Can anyone suggest any cheap dish kit suppliers in or around Surrey /
London that I could pick up from? or alternatively a mail order supplier.

Thanks

Definitely not.
--
Adrian

"Alt Beer" wrote in message
...
Re my earlier Sky box Q I have decided to go for a Humax 500GB Freesat
box - thanks for the helpful advice.

Now the dish. Could I get away with mounting the dish in the loft if I
use a zone 2 dish?
I am in North Surrey so a zone 1 dish should work when mounted outside.
Will the increase in gain between a zone 1 and 2 dish make up for the
signal absorption due to timber and red tile roof?

Can anyone suggest any cheap dish kit suppliers in or around Surrey /
London that I could pick up from? or alternatively a mail order supplier.

Thanks






Screwfix and B&Q have them - nothing clever is needed.

David Woolley wrote:
Alt Beer wrote:

Now the dish. Could I get away with mounting the dish in the loft
if I use a zone 2 dish?
I am in North Surrey so a zone 1 dish should work when mounted
outside. Will the increase in gain between a zone 1 and 2 dish make
up for the signal absorption due to timber and red tile roof?

It is not just the absorption, it is the noise that is radiated. The
sky at satellite frequencies is less than 10K. The front end probably
increases that quite a bit, but not to the 300+K of a loft roof in the
Summer.

My gut feeling is, unless you have a radome panel in the loft (which
may be against building regs) there is no hope.

There are disguised dishes available but none are cheap

If you can, simply mount a dish at ground level and surround 3 sides
of it with shrubs, etc.

Steve Terry
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In article , Alt Beer
writes

Can anyone suggest any cheap dish kit suppliers in or around Surrey / London that
I could pick up from? or alternatively a mail
order supplier.

Amazon is currently the bargain spot for these, branded zone 1 dish plus
quad lnb can be had for under 20quid inc post.
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it's a ba-na-na . . . .

Alt Beer wrote:
Re my earlier Sky box Q I have decided to go for a Humax 500GB Freesat
box - thanks for the helpful advice.

Now the dish. Could I get away with mounting the dish in the loft if I
use a zone 2 dish?
You can certainly store the dish in loft.

Bill

Steve Terry wrote:

If you can, simply mount a dish at ground level and surround 3 sides
of it with shrubs, etc.
Four side of it. The signal comes down at an angle.

Bill