Satellite Dish for Caravan
Submitted: Wednesday, Dec 20, 2006 at 22:08
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russellb
Ok have finished putting together our Satellite dish and setup for the new caravan. It allows us to watch Select TV and Optus Aurora service.
What I found was that a lot of the advertised Satellite kits are outragously priced, some up around $1,600 plus and the more resonable just under the $800 mark.
I put together a kit for the cost of:
Srt 4658 (Strong Satellite receiver with dual pay tv card slots)
CI Module (used for 2nd slot) (accepts cards like the Aurora TV,
Foxtel, select TV etc)
65 CM Dish & mounting hardware
LNB
Satellite Finder
Total Cost $320.00
As a few web sites point out Digital is Digital and no matter whether you buy a $2,000 setup or a $320 setup the result is a perfect digital picture.
You can get Satellite receivers for as little as $150 and a dish for $60-$80
I put a 2nd Dish on the roof at
home and we are watching Select TV, great service by the way .. gives you a lot of the great channels same as
foxtel for a fraction of the cost.
Windsor Rapid 15'6", Subaru Outback 2.5 , MacBook Pro
Reply By: Roughneck - Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 00:37
Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 00:37
Hi RussellB With the price of the setup what are you being charged for select tv and are there any set up charges and how many channels do you get , what is your opinion of the programs . We are going with the disc for free to air what channels do you think we will get in WA. I live in South west WA and we had 10 mls of rain last night but there was a few areas that ended with over 40 mls one bloke up north of
Geraldton said he has never seen as much water kicking around in all his life , at least the stock will have something to drink even though they have nothing to eat . Cheers and merry christmas from Roughneck
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Reply By: russellb - Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 07:33
Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 07:33
There is no setup, I set it up myself, pretty easy.
The Select TV card was $29.95 to buy and then you can subscribe at $29.95 a month with no contracts.
The channels you get are very very good 3 movie channels, nat Geographic, action channel, MTV, CNN, BBC , kids channel, US entertainment news, couple of sports channels (overseas) and a heap of others .. having had
Foxtel in the past which was very expensive as you had to add all their packages just to get the basic channels you wanted select TV seem to package most of the similar good channels that you get with
foxtel into their basic package (you do miss out on a couple) ... I can highly recommend Select TV www.selecttv.com.au
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Follow Up By: Leroy - Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 08:09
Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 08:09
and if you subscribe you get 3mths for the price of 1 I think until the end of the month.
Leroy
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Reply By: Member - Athol (NSW, 2527) - Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 08:31
Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 08:31
Hi russell,
I have been pondering doing the same thing for a while now for or van.
With the Aurora free to air channels, what is the price for the service and is it a monthly contract.?
Do you use the same box for the house or did you buy a second one.?
I would like to contact you after the chrissy hols about suppliers etc.
Athol
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Follow Up By: Leroy - Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:02
Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:02
Supplier - Ebay - half the cost of the retail outlets. I picked up a Stong 4653 for $140.
Leroy
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Reply By: joc45 - Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 16:05
Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 16:05
Hi Russel,
What sort of total current consumption at 12v are we looking at for your installation?
I assume that the receiver is powered by 240v, so an inverter is used.
Gerry
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Reply By: Mr Fawlty - Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 16:08
Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 16:08
Then I jump into the melee and offer free, yes that is absolutley FREE or you can have two absolutley free copies of the Satelite finder software that my brilliant son designed when I had a sat TV and got the irrates trying to line the dish up. You enter your lat & long from ether your GPS or a guestimate from a map via the drop down menus, click on calculate & up pops your required elevation and azimuth. You can also choose your satellite from the drop down menu. To get this amazingk bargain simply email me at :
sydney-riley@hotmail.com & I will at absolutley no cost send the software back to you as an attachment...
If you wish me to demonstrate this software I only charge $750 an hour + costs but even a pimply faced tosser could use it it is so simple....
Over to the Sat TV fans....
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Follow Up By: Mr Fawlty - Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 17:58
Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 17:58
As an added bonus, if you pay now by credit card I'll throw in a set of Festive Lights for your Laptop or PC....This won't last long at this price...
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Follow Up By: russellb - Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 18:34
Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 18:34
So is this software windows software (I use a Mac)
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Follow Up By: Mr Fawlty - Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 20:04
Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 20:04
written in html.... not sure if a Mac can read it....
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Follow Up By: russellb - Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 21:11
Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 21:11
yup sure can :-) sent you an email
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Follow Up By: Leroy - Friday, Dec 22, 2006 at 15:35
Friday, Dec 22, 2006 at 15:35
You could download Gorbtrack also. It's free.
Leroy
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Reply By: time waster - Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 17:00
Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 17:00
we have just set up ours we paid $430 delivered the kit included dish,lnb,20m cable,tv cables,wall connectors,coship receiver,card,excellent plain english instruction book with all the town degrees and the service has been fantastic had an issue with setting it up so phoned satplus and they talked me through it over the phone and also said if there a fault with the receiver they send you a new one straight away and you send the other one back when you can.We also can get the b3 satellite as
well as the main optus c1.
For the stand i bought one of those camping clothes lines from k-mart and use the bottom half works a treat.$25
You get about 16 channels on optus c1 and around 20 on b3 but a lot of overseas channels.
So far have not needed a sat finder but if i do the digital one is the best.
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Reply By: russellb - Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 18:33
Thursday, Dec 21, 2006 at 18:33
Yes I could not agre more satplus.com.au was where I bought the Caravan Dish (much better quality than the ebay dish) they were very helpfull and were happy to answer any questions.
I guess what it all means is that for around $400 you can get a good starting kit rather than have to pay some of the very very expensive prices out there.
The only thing I did not get was the list of Towns and aiming data , but there's plenty of info online.
At the moment I have not set the van up for 12V so all is 240V.
Once I recover from buying the van the next outlay will be to fit it out for 12V
oh .. but first I have to fit my early Xmas present reversing camera kit :-)
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Follow Up By: time waster - Friday, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:28
Friday, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:28
Hi russellb we run the receiver off a coke can style 100w inverter and the lcd tv is 12v tv all up probably 5 amps in total.
I'm sure
John at satplus would post you out the booklet.
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Reply By: Bilbo - Friday, Dec 22, 2006 at 18:19
Friday, Dec 22, 2006 at 18:19
I know absolutely naff all about sat TV.
But can I use such a set up as described above to additionally get "free to air' TV in W.A. when I'm camped
well away from towns?
Bilbo
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