DISCOVER SATELLITE TV
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This Omnisat Camping Kit can be used while still in its
case by adjusting the supports (arrowed) on the lid. Tilt
the dish precisely to the correct angle of elevation and
you are more than halfway there. Don’t guess, take your
time. The instructions with purpose-made compasses
explain where the satellite is found. The compass shown
below clips on to the back of the Camping Kit’s dish
when used in free-standing mode
This is the 12V or 230V Maxview DVB
satellite receiver which is compact
and light enough to mount on its
side. It is a Freesat box (not
Freeview) and it picks up over 200
free TV and radio channels, including
all the mainstream ones
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The dish, complete with LNB on its
folding arm, is then fitted to the tripod.
The unit must now be levelled with a
spirit level
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Set the elevation to the figure shown on the chart, using the scale on
the dish support. With most dish systems you can use an elevation
Many portable satellite antennae, map that is provided to aid your dish adjustment to within a few
such as this Omnisat 66 kit, are tripod degrees. Don’t worry if the dish seems to be lower than it should; it
mounted. The tripod can be secured
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could even point downwards in northern Europe. You don’t point the
with the tent pegs provided and the dish at the satellite; you aim the satellite’s beam into the centre of
antenna can work under an awning the dish so it is focused on to the LNB, which gathers in the signal
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Here’s how to produce a
picture. From the UK,
Astra 2 is just to the east
of south. So, point the
antenna due south
initially, just ‘past’ the
satellite.
1. Move the dish in really
You’ll need to turn on both the TV and
small increments
the receiver box. The receiver here has
towards the east,
been set to show signal strength on the
pausing briefly at each
Avtex TV’s screen
stage. This could take
several minutes
2. If your compass says
you’ve gone too far,
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you’ve probably moved
too far, too fast. The
angle is quite critical, so
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be patient
3. If your signal strength
shows you have a signal
but there’s no picture,
you’ve located a
One guide to signal strength is a A satellite TV picture is so good, you’ll
different satellite. You
meter such as the Omnisat Satfinder. benefit from a quality TV to watch it on.
won’t see a picture
Watching the TV screen is easier but The Avtex W151D has a high-grade
though, so just keep
if you can’t see the TV or hear the 15in LCD screen, DVD/CD player, a
slowly searching for
audible tone given from it, you’ll SmartCard reader for viewing digital
Astra 2. When you’ve
need an assistant with good lungs, or photos and an RDS Radio. It can also be
found it, lock the dish
a meter of this sort used as a PC monitor
into position
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