Lidl Satelite Kit - £59.99

dc

Clowance wrote:

We bought a Lidl satellite the other day, tuned it in with a compass as directed by various sites but cannot get above 34% signal strength and 11% signal quality. Not enough for a picture. Theres no obstruction, its on a flat roof and the nearest tree is 100 yards away. We have tilted it 26 degrees from vertical.
Any ideas, or should we get a refund? We are in Poole on the south coast, by the way.

Have you tried it with the Satfinder signal strength meter that came with it?

Clowance

dc wrote:

Have you tried it with the Satfinder signal strength meter that came with it?

Yes, the most it varied by was from 28% to 36%.

nelly05

If you disconnect the cable from the dish what signal are you getting?

The reason i ask is that i was installing a box and dish last week and got 28% whatever i did, it wasnt until i disconnected the cable and realised there was still 28%.

It turned out that what i thought was a clear view wasnt and i need to lift my bracket up by about 2 foot, then i got a far better reception - 89%, and the dish wasnt far off the angle i had been using before.

This is on a 65cm dish in North west

Regards

eilz

Without reading everyone comments, doesn't it make sense to search for a Sky Box and Satelite from somewhere like gumtree.com, I found someone selling sky boxes for £20 and dishs for about the same, hook them up and you get a decent reliable system with freesat, ok you also need to get a free-sat card, but only if you want to get (I think channel 5 or 3 I think) which you could get through you ariel and all the other channels I believe work free without the freesat card. (please correct me if I am wrong)

ckerrd

eilz wrote:

Without reading everyone comments, doesn't it make sense to search for a Sky Box and Satelite from somewhere like gumtree.com, I found someone selling sky boxes for £20 and dishs for about the same, hook them up and you get a decent reliable system with freesat, ok you also need to get a free-sat card, but only if you want to get (I think channel 5 or 3 I think) which you could get through you ariel and all the other channels I believe work free without the freesat card. (please correct me if I am wrong)

Always worth searching around, however not all of us can get five - my local transmitter only pumps out BBC 1 & 2 and ITV1 and CH4

geraint83

I live in a block of flats with a communal satellite dish. Would I be able to use a Lidl decoder with this dish or would I need my own?

I was just wondering because I presume that it's already pointing in the right direction to receive all the channels you'd get with Sky.

Thanks

Heinz

ckerrd wrote:

Always worth searching around, however not all of us can get five - my local transmitter only pumps out BBC 1 & 2 and ITV1 and CH4

But remember that Channel 4 and five are NOT free to air on satellite - they are FTV (Free To View) which means they are 'soft encrypted' and can ONLY be received on a Sky digibox using either a Sky subscription card or a (£20) FTV card.

Totoriko

Just to point out that Lidl seems to be selling 2 different dishes. One is Silvercrest 85cm and the other is of a different make and is 80cm! They are both the same price. Saw them at different branches btw.

eilz

Heinz wrote:

But remember that Channel 4 and five are NOT free to air on satellite - they are FTV (Free To View) which means they are 'soft encrypted' and can ONLY be received on a Sky digibox using either a Sky subscription card or a (£20) FTV card.

But a basic £10 freeview box could do these channells, right?

robskillz

With the Lidl sat-finder, it looks like it can only be used to find low-band transmissions (usually analogue ones) from satellites. Sky Digital transmits from a satellite that uses only the high-band as far as I can remember, so the Lidl sat-finder won't see it. You will need a sat-finder that can send a 22khz tone to the LNB to switch it to hi-band to find Sky Digital. (Or possibly set the receiver to send this).

Rob