Dish and receiver ?

Tom Butcher
Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
edited April 2008 in Pro race
Can someone tell me what I'm looking for on ebay in order to get some decent cycling coverage - I've had enough with British Eurosport now - fine for the grand tours but I'm wasting my time subscribing to cable TV just for those. Do I need an analogue receiver and dish ? anything else ? I normally let the missus programme the video so please explain in words of one syllable ! Thanks.
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  • Steve928
    Steve928 Posts: 314
    You'll need:
    - a dish: 80cm in Englandshire, 100cm North of the border
    - an LNB for the dish
    - an analog satelite receiver
    - and cable, plugs etc..

    Point it at 19.2 degrees East and enjoy, though nobody seems to know for how long. It's demise has beeen forecast for years but it keeps on going as yet..
    Equally, if you can cope without Harmon and Kelly then Eurosport International is free-to-view on 28.2 degrees East digital with German commentary. Whether or not a Sky (wash my mouth out) box can be tuned to receive that I've no idea, but a normal digital satellite receiver can.

    Either way you get the real deal: often 3 or 4 hours into a full day's live TdF mountain stage you'll hear 'and welcome to British Eurosport viewers', and well, we all know what happened today..
  • andyrr
    andyrr Posts: 1,823
    Don't need quite such a big dish : I've a 60cm dish and reception in Edinburgh is fine.
    Analogue receiver : you get English language Eurosport International which suffers less from interrupted/abbreviated cycling whereas digital gets you channels such as RTBF SAT, Belgian channel which Used to have tons of classic/semi-classic racing but this year has been poorer (no Flanders for eg)
    I have the 2 boxes and just check the on-line schedules.
    Both are from the same satellite but I am about to install a motorised dish and from that I'll pick up RAI which has some Italian race coverage.
    Connect up to video or DVD Recorder via scart and way you go.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    The 13.2 degrees refers to the left/right movement of the dish. But you also need to get the dish's elevation right, ie the up/down part and a 60cm dish should work.

    I don't have a dish any more but remember this from past days. I'm tempted to get one, you can pick up items on ebay for the price of one year's subscription to cycling tv, plus you get more races (ie cycling tv has no L-B-L, no Paris Roubaix, no Tour de France), plus if I like Brian Smith, there's something about Crossland that grates.

    But I think we'll see more streaming via the internet. Companies like Eurosport are trialling this but the picture quality is poor. But with time, perhaps just a year, you should be able to get full broadcasts online.
  • ColinJ
    ColinJ Posts: 2,218
    As I mentioned in the Flanders thread:
      If you can't get the analogue kit on eBay or anywhere else, you can get what you need from this company for about £100 total.
    • simianwatching
      simianwatching Posts: 50
      you can also use this equipment to watch the tour de france on french telly. In french obviously but you normally get uninterrupted coverage of the last 4 hrs of each stage (on Fr3 and Fr2 channels) and then a programme of interviews with riders/team managers afterwards
    • freddymerckx
      freddymerckx Posts: 46
      france is great!!!

      you get eurosport for free! :D

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