satellite use in europe

[robbo71]

Originally Posted by ferrari27

Thanks looks like Ive bought the wrong kit!

If you bought the fixed dish kit, then it will be fine, you'll just have to manually adjust it if you want to change satellite.

If you bought the motorised kit, it would be usable if you were able to construct somehow a way of mounting and quicky adjusting for plumbness a vertical pole. Ideally, to save you unclamping the motor, it would be better if it rotated when you wanted it to too. That way setup could be quite quick, as you leave the dish elevation alone between setups.

As I said before, the dual axis motorised systems are fairly expensive and often require specialist installation, so I don't think you've wasted your money, unless you really want to go down the gold-plated route.

[spud]

Originally Posted by ferrari27

I am new to setting up satellite systems and have just purchased a fortec free to air system with an 90cm dish can anyone tell me if i am able to use this to pick up british programs if visiting northern Italy. Would like to use it when visiting the Grand Prix at Monza near Milan any help appreciated as very new to this

I live in N. Italy and get Astra 2D with an 80cm dish. If you are in Italy you can watch the GP on an ordinary TV, it's always live on RAI 1 terrestial (and the ads only last exactly 5 secs)! Rai 1 satellite is blocked during the race.