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We are going on the MBM cruise to Normandy in June, just at the time of the Wolrd Cup and England's group matches. We don't want to invest in a 4K plus Sat TV system and are exporing much more reasonably priced sat dish/digibox systems. The basic requirement is that we can watch BBC/ITV when berthed at ports on the Normandy coast between Cherbourg and Fecamp. Has anyone tried and found to work a Sat system in that area. Will the Kerstan 30 cm or multimo sat dish work there? Any suggestions or recommendations (other than to stay at home or miss the footie- sorry can't do that, missed England winning in 66 and don't want to be there again!).
 
Can't think of any reason why the Kerstan dish wouldn't work - we have one and it's fantastic on the South coast. Bear in mind you'll have to take your home Sky box with you, or you won't get any of the premium channels (there is a way round this - PM me if interested).
 
Our little Kerstan disc certainly worked along the French coast and now brings in all the basic channels all over the Netherlands. We have only the 'basic' card so only get a few channels in addition to BBC/ITV. Was free when we got it but understand Sky now charge a £20 admin. fee.
 
Thanks Wiggo. I know about the Sky problem. We have a FreeSat card and this will get us BBC/ITV etc. None of the World Cup matches will be on Sky so we should be OK with that. Roadpro recommend a Multimo package consisting of a D2209 Multimo dish, a Pace Javelin Sky box, 10m wiring & connectors, a sat finder and compass all for £375. Seems a good package if the thing works as they say it should. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
Daft question perhaps but will the matches not be shown on French TV? As long as you have a multistandard TV set the only drawback would seem to be the commentary in French, come to think of it that could be an improvement.
 
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Mmm. I got a Kerstan 30cm minidish and a Dreambox DM500 for £250. And I get the premium channels. But it's less than straightforward.

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What is a Dreambox and why is it less than straight forward?
 
The dreambox is a non-Sky receiver that has a software CAM that can emulate NDS encryption. The non-straightforward bit is faffing around to put the serial number of your Sky box into the config file that the software CAM uses. Plus the dubious legality (you may be outside the contracted agreement with Sky, but as you can still only receive what you've paid for on one box at a time, I don't think its a big deal. Sky may disagree and change things to disable this method at somepoint though).

Rick
 
It's a small 12v powered satellite receiver that is actually an embedded Linux machine. It can be made to think it is your Sky box from home, so lets you use your home Sky card to get all your premium channels on the boat. Setting it up is somewhat technical, but do-able.
 
reading all these posts I am wondering if this might also be a solution to the very poor reception I get from my marina. Picture jumps and colour fades etc. Cant seem to find a way round it.
 
If you just require the football in English, any old DVB-S compliant box off the internet will get BBC and ITV with a dish pointed at Astra 2D - no need to involve Mr Murdoch.

Lidl sometimes have a Comag box, dish, LNB, cable and mount for £60

Else look for Technomate, Humax, Dream box etc on Web
 
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