New MH has sat but not sure how it works

[Lanerboy]

Ok my new MH will be coning with a sat system and a dish on the top that finds the signal I know nothing about these and wondered do I need a sky box to make it work or will it just pick up freeview programs like my freeview tv does with the normal aerial

I dont have sky tv and dont want it but will I need to buy a box for it to work

Also will it work in Germany or other Euro countries

 

[funflair]

It will need a tuner box or a TV with built in sat tuner, our Avtex has it built in.

Should work OK Half way across Germany but might get iffy going to Southern France and further South into Spain, well thats our experience anyway.

Martin

 

[Lanerboy]

It has a Telco flatsat classic 85 with twin lmb system there is a box in the cupboard not sure what it is though

I do have a 3 month old avtex tv I could fit instead if this will work better ????

 

[pappajohn]

The box in the cupboard is the dish controller. It tells the dish what direction to point depending on which satellite you need.
You still need a TV and tuner or a TV with sat tuner.
Your Avtex may or may not work depending on it having a sat tuner inbuilt but obviously it will work as a TV.

 

[Lanerboy]

It has a white box in the cupboard you can just about make it out in the picture

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[pappajohn]

Nope, can't tell anything from that angle.
Need a full on front shot to see what it is
An automatic sat dish needs some kind of control box to tell the dish which direction and elevation to turn to for specific satellites.

 

[Lanerboy]

Yes sorry it's the only picture I have got of the box

The vehicle was advertised with sat tv inc 2 tv's so I am presuming it's all there ready to turn on and use as it's factory fit

 

[hilldweller]

View attachment 278417 It has a white box in the cupboard you can just about make it out in the picture

That looks like a tank to me. It's got a screw top.

 

[Carolyn and Kev]

That looks like a tank to me. It's got a screw top.

Bless....Must be your age or your eyesight chap??

The box on the left with the air vents in...Is a controller. It should pick up free view via your tv . If the AVtex has the sat system controller built in...it will find tv for you wherever you go. Wait til you get the chance to get the details off the controller , and research it to suit. You will get the info off here somewhere but most definitely from Google Lol

Kev

 

[hilldweller]

Bless....Must be your age or your eyesight chap??
Kev

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Gottit.

But more interesting then, is what is opposite ?

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[Carolyn and Kev]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Gottit.

But more interesting then, is what is opposite ?

Now opposite?......That could mean from the cameras point of view or...if you mean to the right....An Expansion Tank!lol Possibly Alde? Some sort of heating I would have thought?

 

[JockandRita]

That looks like a tank to me. It's got a screw top.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Gottit.

But more interesting then, is what is opposite ?

I was with you Brian, until I recognised the header tank..................but I still struggled to suss out the white box.

Cheers,

Jock.

 

[hilldweller]

.An Expansion Tank!lol Possibly Alde? Some sort of heating I would have thought?

I'll go with that.

 

[pappajohn]

Took me a minute to spot the box but figured nobody could mistake a clear plastic container for a white metal box so it had to be there somewhere.

 

[pappajohn]

Yes sorry it's the only picture I have got of the box

The vehicle was advertised with sat tv inc 2 tv's so I am presuming it's all there ready to turn on and use as it's factory fit

Hopefully it will come complete and all you will need to do is turn on the TV, receiver and controller, select a TV channel and sit back.
With the dish having a twin LNB you should be able to watch two different programs on two tv's at the same time.

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[JockandRita]

With the dish having a twin LNB you should be able to watch two different programs on two tv's at the same time.

Or record one, whilst watching the other............with the right equipment of course.

Cheers,

Jock.

 

[Lanerboy]

Spoke to the dealer and it is basically sit down turn on and enjoy everything is already installed ready to go

 

[JockandRita]

Spoke to the dealer and it is basically sit down turn on and enjoy everything is already installed ready to go

Nonetheless, get yourself a half decent compass, so that you'll know where Astra 28.2E is, on the occasions when the auto positioning dish doesn't.

Cheers,

Jock.

 

[Clarky]

We have the Telco factory installed system with the 'pull up TV'.
The satellite receiver is in the small locker beside the passenger seat (we are LHD) with a 'magic eye' so that the remote control works.
It's all automatic, just press the button on the panel over the door and the dish goes up, whizzes round for a few seconds and locks on. Switch on TV and receiver and away you go.
The sound on ours is piped through the stereo system.
As the great Steve Jobs used to say "it all just works".

Richard.

 

[Lanerboy]

Hi Richard

Thanks for confirming that, regards the sound through the stereo is that standard or have you had to do this yourself if so what did you do

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[Bustup15]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Gottit.

But more interesting then, is what is opposite ?

Is that not the fuel tank for the satt. Receiver lol