"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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Thanks for everyone who responded. I forgot to say that it would be
only free-to-air - my opinion of Sky is such that I won't touch them.

In that case you would require a 60 cm dish for BBC channels on Astra 2 at
28 degrees east of south and/or an 80 cm dish for Hotbird at 13 degrees east
of south for a selection of European channels.

A more advanced set up is to add a motor to the dish mount to enable
armchair switching between satellites.

As othes have mentioned 60 cm FTA kits (dish, receiver, and LNB etc) can be
found in Lidl for about 60 pounds (the larger dish costing 14.99) about
twice a year, or in Maplin at anytime for a less well specified reciever at
slightly higher cost around 80 pounds.
Product codes A71GG, and A844GU.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...=99085&DOY=5m3

Roger R