Roger Moss wrote:

"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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There are two aspects to this.
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Thanks! Panic over.

Does the dish have to be outdoors, or can it go in the loft (it's an old
loft, no foil insulation here!) - perhaps with a larger dish?
If outdoors, can I hide it down the garden on a long lead or is there too
much signal loss with (say) 50m cable from dish to receiver?



Satellite frequencies are severley attentuated by almost everything.
Maybe you could get away with fibreglass or persex radome in front of
it, but nothing that absorbs/contains water like tiles or slates or
timber and nothing metallic either.

Remote dishes in general need power run to them for a mast head
amplifeir of some sort to boost the signals before the long cables
reduce them all over again.


Roger