Wayne Stallwood wrote:
[..snip lots of useful info..] To be honest if the desired dish location isn't dangerous to access I would do it yourself. No special tools are required (although a signal meter does make life easier..I have one you can borrow if you are near Bury) I set my elevation on the ground and then bolted it up and pointed it in the same general direction as my neighbours. Once connected it was pretty much spot on. There is an additional skew setting on the LNB but this is set by geographic region so should need tweaking once up a ladder.
Sky apparently will install a dish for £50, but I'm inclined to DIY not least because there's an old dish on the side of the house anyway which would need replacing but may be a good starting point. It will depend on the type of dish I should be looking for, which I have no idea about. Are we talking Maplin parts or something more specialist?
Multichannel wise, Quad LNB's are cheap on ebay (although make sure it has the right mount for your dish) and you can even get octal ones now (at a price)
If I'm doing this myself the only real incentive would be to go for a quad LNB. Can I upgrade a standard Sky dish if I go that route?
I watch about 1hr live TV a week so why I'm interested I have no idea, I'll lose interest once I've got it working and have even more "choice" bombarding me!