Satellite Dishes - What Dish Is Best for Me?
OK, where to start? There are a multitude of different satellite dishes, from different manufacturers and varying in size, shape, colour and material. This article will try to give a good outline of some of the more often used dishes.
The most common satellite dish that you would see on houses and apartment in Ireland is the perforated (mesh) sky satellite dish. This is a black / dary grey colour. This is called a zone 2 dish, this refers to the location of Ireland in relation to the satellite itself and is a 60cm model. It is very widely used because of it's perforated nature. In high winds and bad weather, because it is not a solid dish, it is not easily moved and therefore you have far better reliability from your satellite signal. Another advantage of this type of dish is that is also suitable for freesat and free to air satellite TV and also is HD ready. For the reasons above, it is really the only way to go for getting either subscription or free satellite TV in Ireland from the UK.
Ah, but say you don't want to receive the UK satellite channels? During the boom during the noughties in Ireland, there was an influx of foreign nationals into the country and suddenly all these huge white satellite dishes started appearing everywhere. These are called universal satellite dishes and are used mainly to receive foreign TV stations in Ireland. They are fairly large, the sizes ranging from 110cm to 145cm commonly although you can get up to 2.2m. Generally speaking, the further away from your home country, the bigger the satellite dish you will need to receive your domestic channels. Recently some of the foreign broadcasters changed the satellite they were transmitting from and while people used to be able to receive their own country's TV stations from a 60 or 80cm universal dish, now the minimum they need is a 110cm dish. Countries affected by this include, Hungary, Poland, Georgia, Estonia & Lithuania to name but a few.
Of course a satellite dish by itself will not pick up the satellite channels. You will need some form of LNB (Low noise block) which attaches onto the arm at the from of the dish too and some form of satellite receiver. We will deal with LNBs in another article at a later date.
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The most common satellite dish that you would see on houses and apartment in Ireland is the perforated (mesh) sky satellite dish. This is a black / dary grey colour. This is called a zone 2 dish, this refers to the location of Ireland in relation to the satellite itself and is a 60cm model. It is very widely used because of it's perforated nature. In high winds and bad weather, because it is not a solid dish, it is not easily moved and therefore you have far better reliability from your satellite signal. Another advantage of this type of dish is that is also suitable for freesat and free to air satellite TV and also is HD ready. For the reasons above, it is really the only way to go for getting either subscription or free satellite TV in Ireland from the UK.
Ah, but say you don't want to receive the UK satellite channels? During the boom during the noughties in Ireland, there was an influx of foreign nationals into the country and suddenly all these huge white satellite dishes started appearing everywhere. These are called universal satellite dishes and are used mainly to receive foreign TV stations in Ireland. They are fairly large, the sizes ranging from 110cm to 145cm commonly although you can get up to 2.2m. Generally speaking, the further away from your home country, the bigger the satellite dish you will need to receive your domestic channels. Recently some of the foreign broadcasters changed the satellite they were transmitting from and while people used to be able to receive their own country's TV stations from a 60 or 80cm universal dish, now the minimum they need is a 110cm dish. Countries affected by this include, Hungary, Poland, Georgia, Estonia & Lithuania to name but a few.
Of course a satellite dish by itself will not pick up the satellite channels. You will need some form of LNB (Low noise block) which attaches onto the arm at the from of the dish too and some form of satellite receiver. We will deal with LNBs in another article at a later date.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Barry_F
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