[Freesat Tv Costa Blanca]

Hello,

You need a 1.9m dish in your area for good reception and it is impossible to install one for any where near that price you have quoted.........

Regards

The FSTV CB team

[The Sat and PC Guy]

Originally Posted by Ferg

I have been informed by a neighbour that a friend of his can install either a 1.2m or a 1.4m (he's not sure which) dish on my house (probably on an upstairs shed roof or upstairs sun patio for €450 complete,.

if the price also includes a decent receiver then it sounds good...
do you know what receiver this includes..a SD or HD (standard or high definition, sky or freesat, multicam (not a sky box but can read sky cards!).
and also the size of the dish would be useful..and if it is prime or offset (is the lNB in the centre of the dish or at an offset angle to the dish)

Originally Posted by Ferg

which will pick up 400 - 600 (?) channels including all the ITVs, BBCs, RTE, etc. God knows what the other hundreds of channels are.

a 1.2 or 1/4m dish will pick up a lot of channels.
you may struggle with a 1.2 or 1.4 to keep the main bbc and itvs for all day, and as far as i am aware RTEs are on a similar frequency as bbc2, or even with a 1.8m dish you will / may not get these 24/7.
many of the other free tv channels will tend to be "text and sex" channels...
some of the "400 - 600" channels the dish will be able toreceive will only be viewable with a sky subscription card.

Originally Posted by Ferg

Is this realistic (I don't have a name for the installer at the moment, he's due to pop out next Monday). Any advice appreciated. Thanks. Great forum, by the way, very informative.

as with most things it may be an idea to check out the name of the install company on the web or in a thread like this where there are some recommendations or horror stories...and maybe go and have a look at one of his installations to see if he is a "neat and tidy" installer or if he just leaves cables lying around.

hope this helps....

[Ferg]

Thanks very much for the info. I'll try to ask all the right questions using what you have said when I see the prospective installer on Monday. I don't know if he is officially working for a company or is freelance.

[janicet]

Our community had enough at the end of last summer when we all got switched off by a certain rebroadcaster - quite a few community who had recently paid their installations were considerably out of pocket.

One of my neighbours bit the bullet and had installed a 1.9 metre dish on their terrace and after a few weeks we asked the neighbour if he would allow 3 of us to connect to the dish. We contacted the company televisiontechnology.eu who did the works in 4 days and am very pleased that we chose this path as have over 200 channels. Works were doen quickly and effeciently.

Janice

[Ferg]

Update: Well guess what, the guy with the 1.4m dish offering up to 600 channels for E450 didn´t show. My neighbour in the meantime has made further fruitless enquiries and has concluded that the gentleman in question is a cowboy. Quite. Don´t have a name yet, if I get it I´ll pass it on.

Ah well, if it looks too good to be true it probably is, and all that.............

Simulsat still coming in loud and clear (I´m paying for it) so that will do me for the moment. I see since I was last here in January they now have a Spanish movie channel - Hollywood - which shows some quite good movies without breaking for ads, except between movies. Similar to Telmicro´s Cinestar - the ads are in Spanish, usually about their forthcoming movies, and most amusingly they translate the names of the movies into Spanish for the purpose of advertising them, but then show them in English! Also 2 sports channels that seems to show a fair bit of football - even Premiership matches, though not live: Channel 6 and TDP. Those, plus the ITVs and BBCs, and a few music channels are all I really need. I know they´re free to air, but at least for now I´m getting use out of my existing Telmicro mesh aerial and haven´t lost half my sun terrace to a dish.

[Lee]

Add a2sat to the list

More details about them can be found here
http://www.thespainforum.com/f286/a2...office-172365/ (a2sat and its new bright office)

One of the partners has been a member on here for a while.

Plus they are fully legal paying their taxes along with having full public liability insurance.

Which is a lot more than be said about half the people who advertise in the papers.

Their new satellite TV showroom is about five minutes from Almoradi

[europa3d]

I had a bad experience with a firm inland from Al Bir beach.. I am not mentioning the firms name but suggest if contemplating a firm in the area you ask around. I have heard good reports on the one on the Industrial estate inland from Carrefour Finestrat. They advertise every week in the freebie newspapers. Reading from before the good ones may be Sky Satelite Digital Systems. Ask around first

[Arthur Ennimore-Emtees]

Hi Folks
I have very recently acquired a new TV set and am currently on Sky plus with a firm in Benissa which I used before I moved to this area.
I have had a query regarding the new set but was unable to reach my old installers, or anyone else - no-one answered their phone until I contacted the Sat and PC Guy.
Jon of S&PCG was most helpful and knowledgeable, and sorted out my query there and then over the phone.
A very handy person to have on our forum, Lee
Thankyou Jon

[harveydog]

Masters of Community TV systems are the most professional company I have come across in Spain
we had a 2.4m dish and a kathrein processor system installed at entre naranjos , los montesinos and been watching UK channels for 18 months with not a hitch
this company are fully legal, paying taxes and have insurance in place too