"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Roger R" writes:
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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.
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| 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.
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| A more advanced set up is to add a motor to the dish mount to enable
| armchair switching between satellites.

Thanks very much. I was hoping to get away with a fixed installation;
I shall have to recheck.

I was told by an installer that the receiver had to be next to the
television. Is that the case with all of them, or can they be installed
in the roof (power, but not easily accessible)?

Why don't you want the STB near the TV? 30m of cable from the LNB to the STB
should not be a problem, and normally TV's give a better picture if a Scart lead
is used rather than RF over coax.

If the STB is not next to the TV you would need some sort of remote extender.

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Michael Chare