Portable sat dish

[Janso]

My dad's got a portable dish, and he's wanting to use his multisat line when at the caravan - is it possible to motorise one of these? or does it all depend on make and model etc?

 

[nickyd186]

What is he hoping to pick up with it if you don't mind me asking ?

 

[Janso]

19.2 and 23.5 mainly. He reckons he's had a lock on the satellites so it's just a case of motorising it to save pratting about switching between them.

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The alternative is trying to fit a multi LNB rack, which would probably be cheaper in all honesty.

 

[nickyd186]

I'm guessing it's over on the east coast? Surprised a portable dish is picking them up tbh

 

[Janso]

Aye, down in Norfolk. Could be right mate but he reckons he can pick them up.

 

[nickyd186]

Will be Netherlands channels also some English transmit on those I've got a website link somewhere with all on those. I got whole set up for just under £100 from a site called multimediasystems.multimedia systems.co.systems.co.uk I dunno if they do anything separate that may help

 

[bees]

Used to use a portable dish on a touring caravan, had to align the dish manually,
pretty straight forward when you have done it a few times, so if it's not a static caravan
I'm not too sure how a motorised set up would work.

 

[nickyd186]

Astra 3B (23.5°E) - All transmissions - frequencies - KingOfSat

https://www.lyngsat.com/Astra-1KR-1L-1M-1N.html

 

[Janso]

Cheers, will have a look at that website. Yeah it's a static one bees.

 

[bees]

You should be OK with motorised then, how are you connecting to the net ?

I used a wireless dongle which wasn't great to be honest, 3 network had the best coverage.

It may be best to try one first before shelling out on a motorised set up.

The sites I visited with WiFi where pretty expensive if you use their coverage, again, WiFi connection
so I wouldn't expect fantastic results.

Was told to play a radio station on silent on my phone while running the box to stop the WiFi
dropping out. ;)

 

[Janso]

Yeah it's a wireless dongle, the EE one - good advice with the radio station though, hadn't thought of that.

Think I'll show him how much a motorised dish costs and then see how much having to manually align the dish bothers him. lol