Can Astra satellite signals go through walls?

kwikbreaks

The website the guy is using does all the hard work of calculating heights and it even uses google maps so you can see exactly where any problem may lie. I think we can safely assume that he has correctly worked out his options and is just asking exactly what he did ask - can the signal pass through obstructions to which the correct answer was given in the very first reply.

patman99

Does the bungalow join-up to the 3-storey block?, if so, how about asking the owners if it would be possable to mount the dish on a short pole attached to their gable end.

spike7451

I have actually seen dishes mounted on garden walls at waist level.I have even installed them on sheds & walls,running the cabling from there to the house.If the OP has a shed/garage then he could buy a pole & bracket & mount that next to or on the structure.
http://www.satelliteonline.co.uk/brackets_poles_etc.htm

John_Gray

Summarising my responses to most of the posters in one post!

#2, bryanb: I was afraid that was the case - although I have actually see a satellite dish mounted on the wall of a house but pointing in towards the inside of the house! No idea what that was about...

#3 kwikbreaks: I take your point about having large dishes high up on poles when it's windy. Not the most directionally-stable mounting!

#4 iltisman: I found another website which gives the angle of inclination of the Astra 2A, 2B, 2D satellite above the horizontal (the beam elevation) at the appropriate location, and it comes out at 24.3°. (That's assuming I understand it all!) There's only a difference of a small number of degrees between Edinburgh, Penzance and Dover, by the way.

#5 JasX: a good idea (to mount the disk at the opposite side of the bungalow) which I hadn't thought of. Only snag is that's the opposite side to the living room, so there could be cable routing problems.

#6 TaffyBiker: good points. The chap isn't keen on putting the dish in the garden because of children and footballs, but it has a good line of sight and no obstructing trees. The distance to where it would need to enter the house is probably less than 5 metres.

#7 Owain Moneysaver: answered in previous comment.

#13 patman99: unfortunately the bungalow is detached from the row of terraced houses by about 1-2 metres, so it might not be practical to mount a satellite dish on their exterior wall somewhere above roof level and have the cables going down about 3-4 metres and across their path about 1-2 metres. It's an idea, though - and depends on how friendly the neighbours might be!

Most of the later posts emphasise parts of what's gone before.

The conclusion seems to be that the chap will have to seriously consider mounting the dish in the garden, perhaps in a solid but open-fronted box to reduce or prevent accidental damage by the children, or on the bungalow's northern wall, the one opposite to the living room which is next to the terraced houses, and consider how to route the cables back to the living room.

:T Thanks to everyone for their contributions to an area which I know very little about, which I really appreciate - the range of views and suggestions was very interesting. Several virtual :beer:s all round!