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[Svetlana]

The size of the dish varies according to your location in Cyprus; you can get away with a 2.7m dish in Paphos, but you will require a much larger dish. Costs? In Paphos £530 plus installation, Paralimni £2800 plus installation, will give you NEARLY 100% service.

Lana

[iceman]

sorry wrong post!!

[iceman]

The size of the dish varies according to your location in Cyprus; you can get away with a 2.7m dish in Paphos, but you will require a much larger dish. Costs? In Paphos £530 plus installation, Paralimni £2800 plus installation, will give you NEARLY 100% service.

£2800+installation?? thats a bit over the top Lena
A 4.2m dish (if installed properly by a professional engineer) should be just over £2000CYP including installation,...
Of course there are plenty of cowboy installers charging as low as £1600 but i can assure you the dish does not work properly...

[Street Racer]

Ice,

Am I correct in that there are only two types of dish, prime focus and offset?

I've been told offset is the best way to go and of course with a good quality low noise LNB?

With good coax cable and the correct size dish, what's the problem?

Phil

[Street Racer]

GG,

What benefits are there with the better quality sky boxes?

Sorry if this is a stupid question.

Phil

[GG]

I believe the only problem with getting the free box with Sky is that it has to be linked to a UK phone line for the first twelve months
Bill

Thats a myth, it does not need to be linked to a phone line at all, mine never has done. It only needs to be linked to the phone line if you use any channels which need a PIN entered or of you use pay per view or sky box office, or if you wanna play a game against another sky user. But for usual channel watching it does not need a phone line.

[iceman]

Am I correct in that there are only two types of dish, prime focus and offset?

I've been told offset is the best way to go and of course with a good quality low noise LNB?

With good coax cable and the correct size dish, what's the problem?

There are more than two types of satellite dishes but the main ones are offset and prime focus designs..
The advantage of Offset dishes is that due to the design of the dish the LNB is at an offset angle not obstructing the incoming signal,but offset dishes ar OK up to a certain size..(less than 3.0m)
Prime focus dishes come into play when large dish surface is required (over 3.0m)
Good coax is absolute necessity when dealing with low signal levels (as we do with SKY in Cyprus) As to LNB,i always use the 0.3dB C120 invacom Quad with a matching feedhorn on my 4.2m installations....It is the best LNB on the market..

What benefits are there with the better quality sky boxes?

Sorry if this is a stupid question.

There is no such thing as a better skybox..The only difference between boxes is their tuners..
Some boxes are manufactured with more sensitive tuners than others..You would not notice any difference with these boxes when used in UK but on fringe reception areas the difference in tuner sensitivity shows up..

I believe the only problem with getting the free box with Sky is that it has to be linked to a UK phone line for the first twelve months
Bill

Thats a myth, it does not need to be linked to a phone line at all, mine never has done. It only needs to be linked to the phone line if you use any channels which need a PIN entered or of you use pay per view or sky box office, or if you wanna play a game against another sky user. But for usual channel watching it does not need a phone line.

It is not a myth..Bill is right...If the box is subsidised by SKY it has to be connected to a phone line for a full year..SKY does this to encourage their subscribers to spend money by using their interactive services (which can only be done if the box is connected to a phone line)

[lee hayes]

Hi all

Im still in england at the moment and moving there soon just had a look for a 3m dish and can find several on the net for £289.99 sterling so where people get £2800cyp from wow. When i move over i shall be bringing a dish with me and installing it myself not paying silly prices.

[iceman]

Hi all

Im still in england at the moment and moving there soon just had a look for a 3m dish and can find several on the net for £289.99 sterling so where people get £2800cyp from wow. When i move over i shall be bringing a dish with me and installing it myself not paying silly prices.

Please,do let us know how you get on with this £289.99 dish..

[lee hayes]

ice man

what would be wrong with me using a dish of that cost. it must be cheaper for me to get it here in england and bring with me the pole cable and reciver of which i have just need a dish.