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<blockquote data-quote="welshman234" data-source="post: 791528" data-attributes="member: 379760">The first thing you will need to do is speak to your landlord if you rent or you may have to speak to the local town council if its a listed building to try and achieve permission (Baugenehmigung) Dont just erect the dish without checking first as the Germans are very hot on building permission and dont underestimate how nosey some Germans can be. I got reported to the local Ordnungsamt(environmental health and traffic controls) for not sweeping the street outside my house of leaves in the Autumn for 1 week when I wasnt here and got a little warning in the post . On the positive side the German Constitution is clear that foreigners have every right to receive broadcasts in their own language. There was even a case of a german who was told he couldnt have satellite tv in his flat yet neighbouring flats with foreign residents were allowed to erect satelllite dishes by the landlord!!!!! Some landlords argue, to get round this, that there are plenty of english speaking channels on normal German television. Dont be fobbed off by that just tell them you are learning Welsh or Gaellic and need to have S4C and BBC Alba .The last thing Germans like is to be accused of is&nbsp; racism and the denial of others cultural rghts. On the equipment side&nbsp; there are plenty of transparent dishes on the market. Just google. In Montabaur I believe an 80 -85cm dish would more than serve you well, at the moment.&nbsp;&nbsp; I say at the moment because 1N is just a visitor at the satellite position for the UK at the end of this year we get Astra 2F and god knows if this will be receivable In germany. I am assuming that I will need at least a 1.2 m dish but I really dont tknow what the future is. Any generic hd receiver will get Uk tv I use a VU+ and I like it. Astra 1n has improved my signal quality on all the previous 2D channels eg before BBC 1 Wales was about 55-60% quality but now its near 80% . Hope it helps...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="welshman234, post: 791528, member: 379760"] The first thing you will need to do is speak to your landlord if you rent or you may have to speak to the local town council if its a listed building to try and achieve permission (Baugenehmigung) Dont just erect the dish without checking first as the Germans are very hot on building permission and dont underestimate how nosey some Germans can be. I got reported to the local Ordnungsamt(environmental health and traffic controls) for not sweeping the street outside my house of leaves in the Autumn for 1 week when I wasnt here and got a little warning in the post . On the positive side the German Constitution is clear that foreigners have every right to receive broadcasts in their own language. There was even a case of a german who was told he couldnt have satellite tv in his flat yet neighbouring flats with foreign residents were allowed to erect satelllite dishes by the landlord!!!!! Some landlords argue, to get round this, that there are plenty of english speaking channels on normal German television. Dont be fobbed off by that just tell them you are learning Welsh or Gaellic and need to have S4C and BBC Alba .The last thing Germans like is to be accused of is racism and the denial of others cultural rghts. On the equipment side there are plenty of transparent dishes on the market. Just google. In Montabaur I believe an 80 -85cm dish would more than serve you well, at the moment. I say at the moment because 1N is just a visitor at the satellite position for the UK at the end of this year we get Astra 2F and god knows if this will be receivable In germany. I am assuming that I will need at least a 1.2 m dish but I really dont tknow what the future is. Any generic hd receiver will get Uk tv I use a VU+ and I like it. Astra 1n has improved my signal quality on all the previous 2D channels eg before BBC 1 Wales was about 55-60% quality but now its near 80% . Hope it helps... [/QUOTE]

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