Freesat Channels

Hi,

Thought you now had to have a 1.8m dish or larger?????

Maybe ring a few of.the Installers?

On line version of

The Almeria Focus Magazine and Directory

In.alphabetical order. Guess S for Satellite. DCM gave us.our quote & seem to be well recommended.

Saludos 

Bob and Sandra

Hi. As Bob has said, I believe the dish needs to be larger. I contacted someone who said 1.8 at minimum but bigger is better. I know some dishes are 2.2 (?) or even 2.5. We have a huge dish on the side of our building and, when connected to the TV, we got loads of Spanish channels. One quote I got, by a tradesperson not a company, was for a Freesat box and if we needed a new dish, around the 1,000 Euro mark. Way over the top I felt. We now use the Internet from Next for the TV.

Good luck.

Martin.

I have rechecked the dish and it is approx 1.32 x 1.24 so definitely only a 1.3 m dish. The thing I have difficulty with is that some channels give a good signal but adjacent channels have no signal. 

Looks like I will have to contact an installer and see how much professional help will be.

Thanks for the two responses.

Hi again,

At our cottage we had a 1.8m Sat dish until it was stolen. That cost us 450€ second hand.

At the Mojacar apt we has Telplay wi fi / Internet with a Firestick piggybackingboff son's Firestick in UK.

Good enough for our needs.

Saludos,

Bob & Sandra

This may be a silly question, but is it pointing at the right satellite? I know the BBC channels and some others changed satellite a couple of years ago.

We have a 1.8m dish in Los Gallardos and have the same issue with freesat on our humax: it irritates me that I can't get the Drama channel. I don't actually think there is much you can do about it as where we are is basically at the limit of the satellite range, so those channels that broadcast on a lower quality/bandwidth, e.g the aforesaid Drama, won't play nicely. BUt we do get BBC 1,2,4, ITV, Channel 4 (but not 4+1), I think we get channel 5 and lots of various weird ones.

Rob
Los Gallardos/Palomares.