EmielR
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- My Satellite Setup
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1500 CI+
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- My Location
- Cheltenham, UK
Hi all,
I'm Dutch, living in the UK, and I'd like to receive the Dutch CanalDigitaal channels to complement the Sky stuff I currently have.
One of the things I picked up was this excelent threat from last year:
http://www.satellites.co.uk/php-bin/forum/showthread.php?t=44421
I haven't got a problem getting a CanalDigitaal card throught various family members, and I'm quite willing to pay for it - so I suspect no real problems on that front. But I do have some other 'newbe' questions about the receiver and the dish setup that I was hoping somebody might help me with:
1. As I understand from other articles currently all programs on canaldigitaal are using Seca2. So I asume this means I will either have to get a Seca2 receiver, or a CI receiver with a Seca2 module. I'm not entirely sure I've understood that correctly. I asume that for my simple needs the simplest of receivers will do? (I haven't really got any plans to branch out further than canaldigitaal and the FTA stuff I can also pick up on the same sat.). Any good tips?
2. I've currently got a simple Sky+ setup, and no plans to ditch that. CanalDigitaal sits on Astra1 at 19.2E. Would the best plan be to simply get a seperate dish for this?, or can I replace the current Sky minidish with something bigger and pick up both Astra1 at 19.2E (for CanalDigitaal) and Astra2 at 28.2E (for sky). My Sky is actualy a Sky+, so would that then mean that I could have a dual NLB on 28.2E, routing to the sky box, and another NLB to 19.2E routing to the other receiver?
If possible I'd prefer to use just the one dish (building regulations and all that), so if somebody could comment on this that would be great.
If this is all possible and I've understood what I've picked up so far then I suppose my only remaining question would be if anybody would have a recommendation on dish size to do this with. I'm based in Cheltenham, which (according to heavens-above) is at 51.901 / -2.080, I've got a clear line of sight from the front of my house, although the 28.2E for Sky is probably as far east as I can get, but that should not be a problem since the Astra1 is "less east".
Any feedback and comments would be greatly appreciated!
I'm Dutch, living in the UK, and I'd like to receive the Dutch CanalDigitaal channels to complement the Sky stuff I currently have.
One of the things I picked up was this excelent threat from last year:
http://www.satellites.co.uk/php-bin/forum/showthread.php?t=44421
I haven't got a problem getting a CanalDigitaal card throught various family members, and I'm quite willing to pay for it - so I suspect no real problems on that front. But I do have some other 'newbe' questions about the receiver and the dish setup that I was hoping somebody might help me with:
1. As I understand from other articles currently all programs on canaldigitaal are using Seca2. So I asume this means I will either have to get a Seca2 receiver, or a CI receiver with a Seca2 module. I'm not entirely sure I've understood that correctly. I asume that for my simple needs the simplest of receivers will do? (I haven't really got any plans to branch out further than canaldigitaal and the FTA stuff I can also pick up on the same sat.). Any good tips?
2. I've currently got a simple Sky+ setup, and no plans to ditch that. CanalDigitaal sits on Astra1 at 19.2E. Would the best plan be to simply get a seperate dish for this?, or can I replace the current Sky minidish with something bigger and pick up both Astra1 at 19.2E (for CanalDigitaal) and Astra2 at 28.2E (for sky). My Sky is actualy a Sky+, so would that then mean that I could have a dual NLB on 28.2E, routing to the sky box, and another NLB to 19.2E routing to the other receiver?
If possible I'd prefer to use just the one dish (building regulations and all that), so if somebody could comment on this that would be great.
If this is all possible and I've understood what I've picked up so far then I suppose my only remaining question would be if anybody would have a recommendation on dish size to do this with. I'm based in Cheltenham, which (according to heavens-above) is at 51.901 / -2.080, I've got a clear line of sight from the front of my house, although the 28.2E for Sky is probably as far east as I can get, but that should not be a problem since the Astra1 is "less east".
Any feedback and comments would be greatly appreciated!