Satellite Fun

Posted by stephen on Monday, 14th November, 2005 @ 10:39

With much excitement I stole myself away to Wickes and Homebase yesterday to procure a range of manly items, including my very own drill for making holes in my walls. I felt very butch for doing so, though as always, completely out of my depth in a DIY store.

Much was my disappointment upon my return home when I realised I'd forgotten to pack away the bolts, etc for mounting the satellite to the wall when I loaded everything into the car at work on Friday evening, so I couldn't mount the dish as I'd intended. All my manly purchases had gone to waste!

I came downstairs this morning, planning to measure up things with my new tape measure and buy any necessary bolts. Then I had an idea. The stand for my parasol, perhaps the arm would fit in there? No, it's about the same size. So perhaps the dish could be mounted on the stand. Yes!

And so I'm able to pickup Astra 28.2E (Sky Digital) by aiming the dish carefully and pointing down ever so slightly (some trial and error there), along with EutelSat Hotbird 13.0E (lots of foreign channels). And it even works when attached to my little PVR/STB/PC thingy I've talked so much about before.

Today I've been mostly enjoying RTL, Rai Uno and VIVA polsk.