AnswerID: 11727 Submitted: Thursday, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:51
JohnH
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G'day Keith,
What almost everybody does is, Get the install done at your house and then purchase another Dish and LNB (The bit that bolts to the dish that colects the signal).
The New Dish and LNB can be brought seperatly from a number of
places, ie
places that sell TV antennas etc...for about $150 complete.
The next thing you will need is an inline sigal strenght meter that can be brought from somwhere like WES components in Ashfield
Sydney for about $150 bucks also.......I would recomend buying only the PROMAX brand meter, as the cheaper ones are really difficult to use and very problematic in their use (You DO NOT require an expensive frequency selectable reciever unit to line up a sat dish.......The expensive ones are selective ie they can tune to a certain frequency and pick out a certain satilite.......you don't have to do that.....if you get a strong signal and nothing comes up on the TV monitor, you must be on the wrong Satilite, so just move on to the next one....very simple really).
You can then take the decoder from your house setup and use it in conjunction with the new dish and Meter.
They are very easy to line up, and after a bit of practice you will have a strong signal in less than a minute.
The Optus B3 satilite that carries all the pay TV Signals is approximately north and about 40 to 50 degrees elevation, depending on the latitude you are at.
Be warned though, that the further north you go, the weaker the sinal gets.......so its wise to check the local area you are going to, to see if they get the signal you are after ie Foxtel etc......
There are various other options if you just want the news or SBS, Imarja or 7 Central etc that have pretty much the whole of the mainland covered.
Good luck
John
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