What TV will we be able to get?

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Satellite is totally new to me.....we don't watch very much TV so its not something we've ever considered installing. However our new (to us) MH already has a <Broken link removed> dish on the roof and a decoder built into the TV. At first we thought about removing it but hubby now wants to keep it - how far south/east in Europe are we likely to be able to pick up UK TV channels? Is there any way to get Sky Sports through it?
 
Europe changed terrestrial TV sometime back to T2, you may have to get an additional decoder to watch terrestrial channels, satellite should be ok, subject to your satellite

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We have an 85cm dish and get all five UK channels in the south of Spain/Portugal.

Ian
 
We have an 85cm dish and get all five UK channels in the south of Spain/Portugal.

Ian
Not sure how you manage that, unless you have one of those ‘iffy’ decoders.

Using a standard decoder and an 85cm dish we get the main UK channels, BBC, ITV etc as far south as the Dordogne or perhaps Toulouse. Very occasionally we have got them down near Narbonne but it all depends on atmospheric conditions.
Some UK channels are available over a wider area, Sky News is one.
For Sky sport channels you will need to swop to a Sky box, I don’t think the present Sky boxes will work though. We stream F1 via the Sky Go app.

Richard.
 
Not sure how you manage that, unless you have one of those ‘iffy’ decoders.

Not sure if it’s an ‘iffy’ decoder but it seems to work.

Ian

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I would have thought the easiest way to watch Sky Sports in any country is to find the nearest Bar, and let the wife have some "quality time" to herself, as we all know by now...."A woman's work is never done":LOL:
LES
PS: I may have just written my own script for new series of Death In Paradise.:love:
 
Cheers everyone, sounds like it might be worth keeping......for a while anyway to see how much use it actually gets. I didn't think we'd be able to get Sky, so he'll just have to stream that on laptop if there's anything he really really wants to watch.

I would have thought the easiest way to watch Sky Sports in any country is to find the nearest Bar
He's not normally one for going to the pub to watch sports, and actually I don't recall seeing many places showing Sky Sports on our past travels. I suppose it depends on where you go though.
 
I would have thought the easiest way to watch Sky Sports in any country is to find the nearest Bar, and let the wife have some "quality time" to herself, as we all know by now...."A woman's work is never done":LOL:
LES
PS: I may have just written my own script for new series of Death In Paradise.:love:
Do have any tips for avoiding pubs with a TV on 'those' nights? My universal remote app on the smartphone has proven to be unpopular :LOL: .
 
Do have any tips for avoiding pubs with a TV on 'those' nights? My universal remote app on the smartphone has proven to be unpopular :LOL: .
Hi Tony, that must be a funny/useful piece of kit you have, did you buy a Russian phone off Dell Boy?:LOL:
My post was to offer assistance to those that need to see sports whilst away in their vans, personally I dont watch any football, I even gave up on F1 a few years back, when it became an foregone conclusion each time that a certain team with the most money would win. I know a few that go up the pub to watch the major games as they feel the get the atmosphere better in a crowd, but like you I am not one of those, I can start a fight at home!:LOL:
All the best.
LES

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Hi Tony, that must be a funny/useful piece of kit you have, did you buy a Russian phone off Dell Boy?:LOL:
My post was to offer assistance to those that need to see sports whilst away in their vans, personally I dont watch any football, I even gave up on F1 a few years back, when it became an foregone conclusion each time that a certain team with the most money would win. I know a few that go up the pub to watch the major games as they feel the get the atmosphere better in a crowd, but like you I am not one of those, I can start a fight at home!:LOL:
All the best.
LES
No it's one of the Samsung Galaxy range. The app (there are a few) allows full control of a TV (or anything else) with an IR remote control. I've never bothered setting it up but usually if I can see the make of TV I can at least control On/Off, volume, and occasionally channel change. I've tested it in Doctors waiting rooms and in PC World. Once in a pub but not when sport was on - I'm not that brave. It is fun. :imoutahere:
 
Channels on the three UK TV Astra 2 satellites are split onto two beams.
A UK beam and a European beam
The UK beams reception throughout Europe varies a lot. These beams carry channels from the likes of BBC, ITV, C4 Fives, CBS, UKTV; SD Discovery, BT Sports. For example, some areas of Spain your dish may just about get these signals. Other areas, 1.8, 2.4, and even 4m+ (Costa del sol), dishes are required.

The European beam carries the majority of Sky pay channels, inc Sky Sports, and a lot of shopping and "religious" channels. This beam is easily available across most of mainland Spain on an 85cm dish.

So if you want Sky Sports, then your dish is OK sizewise, but you will need a Sky box, a sky card, and subscription.

We have an 85cm dish and get all five UK channels in the south of Spain/Portugal.
You can about 10 UK TV channels from BBC(1,2,4,news, cbbc, cbeebies, Parliament), ITV1, C4, Five by using a special decoder, and hacking into private nonpublic satellite feeds on your dish across most of mainland Spain - a few more than "5".
 
Thanks Satandpcguy that's really useful info! If we travel to Spain its only likely to be the northern parts, but I guess the same reasoning in terms of dish size Vs coverage works for eastwards travel too.

We do have a Sky subscription (and a spare box) so we could take the card out of the box at home if we really wanted to, but we don't go on holiday to watch TV so we probably won't do that. Nice to know its a possibility though.

We talked about it last night and decided that we'll keep the sat dish for our next trip (planning on going to Italy) and see how much we actually use it before making a decision whether it stays or goes.
 
DangerMousy We take our sky box with us whilst doing our annual winter trip and with an85cm Oyster dish with autoskew can get most sky channels, this year so far successful in Conil de la Frontera, Tarifa and currently Cabo de Gata, Almeria. It varies what you can get but works fine ???
It’s well worth taking your sky box if in winter there are quite long dark nights.?
 
I have a shady IPTV subscription, £40 a year. Can link up a wifi hotspot with my unlimited data plan, brexit might put the kaboosh on that long term or connect to a nearby wifi signal, cheers Micky Ds. Get every channel you can think of and more, but the again I'm a tight arse. Does away with the need for a Satellite dish. Worked well for me across the Algarve and the Costas

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