Which satellite dish?

[Sharkfighter]

I recently purchased another MH and was wondering which satellite dish to put on. My old MH has one from Jacksons leisure Satellites, I could pick up UK tv in southern Spain.
I’ve been looking around and there are a plethora of different types. One that is reasonably priced is Alden being sold by RoadPro. The coverage claimed seems to suit my needs, has anyone got any experience of Alden and are they any good?

 

[Silver-Fox]

Think a good few on here will advocate using a sim instead of a dish

 

[emjaiuk]

I recently purchased another MH and was wondering which satellite dish to put on. My old MH has one from Jacksons leisure Satellites, I could pick up UK tv in southern Spain.
I’ve been looking around and there are a plethora of different types. One that is reasonably priced is Alden being sold by RoadPro. The coverage claimed seems to suit my needs, has anyone got any experience of Alden and are they any good?

From Jacksons, you've probably got a system which can access Intelsat 907 to receive UK TV in Southern Spain. Personally I'd go back to them and accept their recommendations

Think a good few on here will advocate using a sim instead of a dish

Even with the re-imposition of roaming charges and data caps? Good luck with that.

 

[Jo662]

I hardly use our sat dish anymore since buying a Firestick and mifi.
Even with the soon to be introduced roaming charges at £ 2 a day,
it will still be cheaper than buying a Sat Dish.

 

[emjaiuk]

I hardly use our sat dish anymore since buying a Firestick and mifi.
Even with the soon to be introduced roaming charges at £ 2 a day,
it will still be cheaper than buying a Sat Dish.

Even with data caps?

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[Jo662]

Even with data caps?

Well we will have to see what happens with the data caps and then have a rethink if there isn't enough for our needs.

 

[pandas]

I hardly use our sat dish anymore since buying a Firestick and mifi.
Even with the soon to be introduced roaming charges at £ 2 a day,
it will still be cheaper than buying a Sat Dish.

And the fair usage to consider- 25mb a month for some whilst in EU.

 

[pandas]

Oyster V is great - plus the dish glows blue at night!

 

[eddie]

We used to stock satellite systems from Alden, Oyster and Maxview

We no longer stock any, and we no longer stock or supply Avtex TV's for the same reason

Smart TV's are so much better

 

[dunnah01]

Never used Alden but our Crystop Autosat 2S has been faultless - we got Freesat channels throughout France, Northern Italy & Western Germany. With data caps and roaming charges satellites will probably have a resurgence if you travel in the EU.

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[Neil S]

I recently purchased another MH and was wondering which satellite dish to put on. My old MH has one from Jacksons leisure Satellites, I could pick up UK tv in southern Spain.
I’ve been looking around and there are a plethora of different types. One that is reasonably priced is Alden being sold by RoadPro. The coverage claimed seems to suit my needs, has anyone got any experience of Alden and are they any good?

We use a Maxview Target 85cm twin LNB with GPS Autoskew
Pulls in Intelsat 901 all over Spain and Portugal which gives us all the mainstream channels plus all important
Radio 2

 

[Gellyneck]

Radio 2

Another Pop Master addict!

 

[Lenny HB]

Think a good few on here will advocate using a sim instead of a dish

I would have done but with roaming charges coming back on some networks I'm not so sure now, I think I would wait a while and see what happens with data roaming.

 

[Neil S]

Another Pop Master addict!

Absolutely and Jeremy Vine the Whine

 

[Badknee]

We have an Alden dish and it only picks up eight satellites, two in English. Never had coverage in Spain, need to be in France.
If you were happy with Jackson’s I’d give them a call.

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[Sharkfighter]

Thanks for the replies. I picked up my new motorhome today and was talking to a bloke and got onto satellites and he told me that he uses a firestick and has unlimited data. It's something that I've not considered and given the price of a dish it might be worth looking into.

 

[pandas]

Thanks for the replies. I picked up my new motorhome today and was talking to a bloke and got onto satellites and he told me that he uses a firestick and has unlimited data. It's something that I've not considered and given the price of a dish it might be worth looking into.

Yes that’s the current position of some but two things to be aware of: 1. Since Brexit Fair usage in the EU at 25gb per month. 2.From personal experience for the UK you need to receive a good mobile signal which is not a given in more places than you would think. Been caught out a number of times. Enjoy the new Motorhome.

 

[Neil S]

Yes that’s the current position of some but two things to be aware of: 1. Since Brexit Fair usage in the EU at 25gb per month. 2.From personal experience for the UK you need to receive a good mobile signal which is not a given in more places than you would think. Been caught out a number of times. Enjoy the new Motorhome.

25gb a month is less than hour a day of watching U.K. tv over a month whilst abroad and that’s on Single Definition

 

[Lenny HB]

25gb a month is less than hour a day of watching U.K. tv over a month whilst abroad and that’s on Single Definition

I always download loads of stuff from Netflix & Prime on my android TV box, it has 64gb memory + sd card slot & USB ports.

 

[GAVLAD]

We used to stock satellite systems from Alden, Oyster and Maxview

We no longer stock any, and we no longer stock or supply Avtex TV's for the same reason

Smart TV's are so much better

Eddie, how do you use your smart TV?
Do you link it to a mifi or a sat dish that dies internet?
Or just tether through your phone?

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[mikeandmary]

I’m not up to speed with data caps and roaming charges but it doesn’t sound cheap to me. £2 per day would soon add up to a decent, used Satellite system by my math.

 

[pandas]

I always download loads of stuff from Netflix & Prime on my android TV box, it has 64gb memory + sd card slot & USB ports.

Good idea but the main reason we use it is for live sport, F1 and golf

 

[dunnah01]

We also download loads of stuff from Netflix etc but most of it expires after 1 month so only of limited use if staying for the up to 90 days

 

[Lenny HB]

We also download loads of stuff from Netflix etc but most of it expires after 1 month so only of limited use if staying for the up to 90 days

Some things do some don't, Prime is also supossed to expire after 30 days but often still there months later.

 

[eddie]

Eddie, how do you use your smart TV?
Do you link it to a mifi or a sat dish that dies internet?
Or just tether through your phone?

We switched in the house as soon as it was available to mobile broadband, as we live in the sticks and our internet was S L O W

We have a Huawei router with a EE SIM which gives us 70 mps download, we pay £22 a month for unlimited data.

When we go away in the camper this gets chucked in the same bag as our iPads, Kindles etc and lives in the ‘techie’ cupboard in the camper

Our phones also are unlimited data and are on Three and Vodafone to give us multiple choice when it comes to signal.

We have three TV’s in the camper (factory fitted) all linked via HDMI ARC (Audio Return Chanel) through a distribution unit so the surround sound and TV display are all synced.

Only two things plugged into the distribution unit, a Amazon 4k Fire Cube than not only allows everything to be controlled by voice commands, give us Netflix, Prime and all the on demand (BBC ITV etc)

The other is a Humax digi box, via a roof mounted satellite system. I debated with my self if we needed satellite TV and in the decided it was one camper too soon to go without satellite.

I was wrong based on how little it’s been used.

I do not have an aerial on the roof of my camper to use with the Huawei, anymore than I have an aerial on the roof of my house to use my phone

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[dunnah01]

Some things do some don't, Prime is also supossed to expire after 30 days but often still there months later.

Yeah - I've still not figured out which expire and which don't tbh but probably not doing more than 30 days for quite some time so downloading older stuff is still a goer, although current stuff will probably end up being limited to free to air stuff via satellite when abroad. However, strangely there's still nothing on my current T&Cs from my mobile data supplier to say any roaming caps will be imposed, there weren't any last time I was in the EU last year.

 

[RM_Marine]

Just putting it out there but when did three stop roaming (they never have)

I've had a sim only contract for 10 years now just for holidays and working away due to being in the military, yes they have a data cap at 12gb and yes I pay £16 a month for unlimited data, calls and texts

It works in the mifi or a 5g phone which I soul use for data uses for IPTV

Dont pay the charges and don't be loyal to the companies, they don't care about you

 

[GAVLAD]

We switched in the house as soon as it was available to mobile broadband, as we live in the sticks and our internet was S L O W

We have a Huawei router with a EE SIM which gives us 70 mps download, we pay £22 a month for unlimited data.

When we go away in the camper this gets chucked in the same bag as our iPads, Kindles etc and lives in the ‘techie’ cupboard in the camper

Our phones also are unlimited data and are on Three and Vodafone to give us multiple choice when it comes to signal.

We have three TV’s in the camper (factory fitted) all linked via HDMI ARC (Audio Return Chanel) through a distribution unit so the surround sound and TV display are all synced.

Only two things plugged into the distribution unit, a Amazon 4k Fire Cube than not only allows everything to be controlled by voice commands, give us Netflix, Prime and all the on demand (BBC ITV etc)

The other is a Humax digi box, via a roof mounted satellite system. I debated with my self if we needed satellite TV and in the decided it was one camper too soon to go without satellite.

I was wrong based on how little it’s been used.

I do not have an aerial on the roof of my camper to use with the Huawei, anymore than I have an aerial on the roof of my house to use my phone

That’s really interesting - thanks Eddie.
We have a Caro Digital sat dish and have not been able to pick up any channels in Bournemouth or Brackley or this trip.
I think Brackley because we were over the road from the US Air Force listening base so maybe a signal issue, Bournemouth? Near the airport but our system works near Leeds/Bfd airport which is a busier airport. Then I looked into the reposition of Astra2.
We’re now coming to the conclusion of either an upgrade or looking at alternative methods.
After all, there’s only so much we can sit and talk to one another on an evening, and we exhausted that by the time we’d left our home drive

 

[Neil S]

That’s really interesting - thanks Eddie.
We have a Caro Digital sat dish and have not been able to pick up any channels in Bournemouth or Brackley or this trip.
I think Brackley because we were over the road from the US Air Force listening base so maybe a signal issue, Bournemouth? Near the airport but our system works near Leeds/Bfd airport which is a busier airport. Then I looked into the reposition of Astra2.
We’re now coming to the conclusion of either an upgrade or looking at alternative methods.
After all, there’s only so much we can sit and talk to one another on an evening, and we exhausted that by the time we’d left our home drive

It will most likely need a software update

 

[GAVLAD]

It will most likely need a software update

I’ve tried to run an update via the dish using the software update option on the menu but the dish has just spun around for the last 10 minutes. All set to Astra2 and re-doing an automatic search and that’s not done anything either