They both are free television services, as their names imply. The most common service is Freeview, which requires a TV aerial to receive a signal. Homeowners will need a small satellite dish to receive the Freesat signal.

will eventually hear a different answer. To repeat - Dish size is everything! Dish size is everything!

The fees will vary according to the type of repair and replacement required. The larger the roof, the higher the cost of maintenance or replacement. They will test the connection, make sure everything is working properly, and clean up after the installation. How Many Screens Do You Have in Your Home? It's old gear and I'm sure the world has moved on but this is what it is : An elliptical mesh dish about 55cm by 44cm (give or take) and A dSCR or dCSS LNB will allow a Sky Q box to be connected on a single feed which is helpful for when extra cables can not for any reason be installed between your satellite dish and Sky Q box. When you do this, you must change the LNB setting to ‘SCR’ mode with the settings menu on the Sky Q box. There is not switching on the LNB again, it instead looks for the frequency of the transponder for the channel that the satellite receiver has requested and oscillates it to the lowest available frequency. This allows for multiple programmes to be recorded at the same time without the need for extra satellite LNB connections,like is required with universal LNB’s. The most significant disadvantage of fibreglass dishes is their high cost when compared to other types.

Many people believe that aluminium does not rust, which is technically correct because rust is a form of corrosion unique to iron/steel, but aluminium does oxidise.Are 38mm LNBs like my old one still available and do they need to be elliptical as all I've seen advertised are circular? I don't want to have to If you're looking to install a new TV aerial or satellite dish, you've probably heard of Freesat and Freeview. But what exactly are satellite dishes, and which one is best for you? The total cost of guttering is affected by the material used or the size of the region to be covered. Octo LNB’s as I’m sure that you can guess have eight separate outputs allowing for eight coaxial cables to be connected and feeding up to 8 separate satellite receivers, four PVR’s or a combination of both. If you need more connections off a single satellite dish, unfortunately there are not any freely available LNB’s that allow for more connections. Instead a new approach must be adopted. This is the installation of a Quattro LNB, which is very different to a Quad LNB and a multi-switch amplifier. See our previous blog on how many TV's can be fed off one dish.

Satellite dishes can be made of a variety of materials, each with its own set of advantages and disadvantages. When referring to a material which the satellite dish is made of, it is generally referring to what the main curved reflector is made of. When you install a communal IRS TV system, traditional LNB’s can’t be used as the amount of connections required is usually far greater than available on an Octo LNB. For this reason, a new approach must be adopted, and this is done via a Quattro LNB and multi-switch amplifiers. This blog isn’t about the installation of communal TV systems, so I won’t go into great detail here.

SKY3' is a branding used by Triax for their minidish range. I have MK4 zone 1 and 2 Triax minidishes with this branding. It does not mean the dish is MK3. If you have dishes with this branding and they look like MK4 then they will be MK4 Triax Sky dishes. There are also 40mm clamp LNBs and C120 LNBs. This refers to the way they fit on a dish. A 40mm LNB has an