I must admit that this is why I've not done this. What I really want to know is:
- What do I need on my wall in terms of a sat dish
Just the standard sky dish if all you want is freesat/sky tv. I have yet to see them cheaper than they are on ebay. The only real gotcha is making sure you get the bracket that is suited to where you intend to mount it.
- What do I need between it and the Dreambox
Just the standard foil screened Sat Co-Ax. Runs over 30 Meters and you need to start paying special attention to the quality of cable you use. There are grades but generally I say 20 meters and above look for copper screened. The cable connects to the dish and the receiver via F connectors which require no special crimping tools etc..However the dish end should be sealed with self amalgamating tape.
- Which Dreambox do I need to do a broadly similar job to Sky+
Dunno MJR has shed light on this for me..still working out what exactly I need.
My girlfriend has just moved in and is tied into a contract in her old house which she will be moving to mine. Apparently the dish stays where is is but she's free to move the Sky+ box, so my interest is mostly curiosity for my own use - but that said I'm tempted to get a local dish installer to install a new dish rather than Sky, if by doing so I get something more functional for the future (multiple LNB's, for example).
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. 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)