Sat TV in the Med

[Deleted User YDKXO]

I want to receive Sky on my berth in South of France. I know I can pay squillions for a dome thingy but I'm not interested in watching TV at 25knots
So, what do I need, where do I get it, how do I get it to work and is it legal?

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[EME]

You get the boxes from certain dealers in UK, who register you as a user at their address. ( Address to be suppplied by PM)....You then take box down with you, you buy a dish locally ( you need a certain larger size, which I'll find, now that ITV coverage is less) . Hey presto perfect reception.



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[EME]

Should have added... even cheaper skinflint version is to acquire secong hand digibox and carry your UK card down with you ( as my inlaws do). We have seperate though in case Sky find out one day how to track us or as is more likely, bother catching up with 'offenders'.

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[ccscott49]

You need minimum 60cm dish, the 30cm doesn't work, or rather didn't in Barcelona, but the actual dish is cheap. I want to get a sky card for mine, how can I do that? I don't mind paying for it, but of course..................

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[tcm]

i am a total bonehead sat-TV-wise. I havenae got it at home, frexample.

BUT i i do have a sat tv thingy on the boat, in the med. This gets CNN and Skynews free, like at home. I think it also gets german lady mudwrestling too, but the kids deny all knowledge.

Cheapiest thing is a pontoon-based fixed jobbie that you put on the pontton, or nail to the pontoon if they let you. Otherwise it is a frightening few quid. The KVH stuiff seems to be the market leaders. The G4 is for skinfklinty sunseekers who have Candy dishwashers and probly Reddifusion tellys. Proper gear is the G6, nearly as big as a real satellite.

There was a good article in MBY a month or so back but of course I only read my stuff, not anything else. Also, it got all technical, whereas it should do as the boat tests do and say cor look, only £xxx, good innit?



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[HowardB]

I've looked into this as I have a new apartment in Spain, - Until May sometime, most dishes worked for UK TV stations, but then they 'turned off' signal from a certain satelite, reducing dramatically the footprint of transmission. Now to get UK type Sat TV pictures you need a dish over 2 metres wide. You can still get the Dutch, French, Spanish etc channels depending on the satelite and card - as well as CNN and Discovery and 1 or 2 others. The Dutch movies are generally in English with Dutch subtitles, but you have to pick your way through the things you probably wouldn't want your kids / inlaws to think you make a habit of watching!

I'm keen to know if there is a way round this too...

Howard

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[EME]

I can't remember exact dimensions but doesn't need to be 2m in S o France ,,,think it's 60/70cm - we get better reception there on Sky than in UK, but we did have buy a larger dish when Beeb pulled their Astra stunt. Unfortunately only know "set-up' folks in South of France. I have the angles written down there somewhere as well. I am in UK at moment but will pm details to all when I get back later this week. We don't have Sky in UK but need some sport in France other than Boules...

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