Satellite Dish automatic

I had this one installed on my Bushtracker:

SmartSat

It's fully automatic including the skew. It comes with a free-to-air set top box which I haven't activated yet. I have connected my Foxtel box to it and it works fine.

It was expensive ($6500) and I agonised over the cost for some time but I bit the bullet and I'm glad I did.

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cheers

There is a model sold by Coast to Coast which I have seen for under $5,000

It has 3 hloes across the top part of the dish with blue and red riims around them MAybe an Oyster brand.

The pros I suppose are no setup time and put away time.

The cons as I see it are If you are in a site with trees in the way u have no options to reposition it.

We were in Tennant Creek when a flash outfit came in and much tooing and froing with his auto dish.

No signal he said Whats wrong Nothing I said my $500 one is working fine.

Dont know he said cost me $7000 and was told it will work anywhere.

Chop down the tree in front of it or shift I said.

OH does that make a difference DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Money does not endear some with common sense..

They will cut out in a really heavy shower of rain as well sometimes.

MY cheapy works fine and takes about 10 mins or less to set up

Remember you only get 7 Central ,Imparja SBS and ABC in the east and WIN and GWN and ABC and SBS in the west unless you have a magic card which gets it all

10 and the other HD channels are not on Satellite

Select TV and Foxtel are on the same satellite and by paying your money you can get them as well

$5000-$6500..... bleep !! Some of you guys have got more $$$$ than sense. Takes 5-10 mins to align a dish once you get the knack.

Leroy