[TheList] Question from the Village idiot

Sat Sep 3 15:07:01 AEST 2011

Thanks Dennis
You are nearly right but next road over
in the Whirinaki Valley
Look like a plan but it looks like a tech install, always thought I could do more with the sky sat
Then again whats to watch on oz TV?
Cheers
Bob the Bookman
From my iPhone

On 03/09/2011, at 1:30 PM, "Denis Dawson" <ddawson at xnet.co.nz> wrote:

> Hi Bob, I wonder if you are in the Waikite Valley?  Although I suspect that where ever you are you will not have line of sight to the site covering Rotorua for DTT .
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> There is a Kordia site at Paeroa Ridge that has some UHF services but they would be just Prime and MTS.
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> I seriously doubt you will ever get DTT where  you are so the best bet is to for Freeview satellite.
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> There is no reason why you could not hook up a second TV with a cheap sat box to the one existing dish.
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> To watch just Freeview the 2 STBs would be outputting the LNB voltage to select Horizontal transponders so they wouldn’t be fighting each other but to be sure you could put an F connector DC blocker in front of the second STB.
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> You could also spent a bit more on a Sat box that will do DVB-S2 and there are a number of Ozzie channels available on D1 also.
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>  Freeview have a coverage map as an indication but there are always exceptions. <<
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> Most of the exceptions are directly over our house, Broadband, Prime TV, telecom Cellphone, and the Maori ch....................
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