Instructions on how to watch premiership football on satellite television (not sky)

Sky is a great way to watch matches in the UK but it has a limit on the number of matches it shows and it seems not to show Saturday 3.00 kick offs.

Fear not ! There is a way of getting those 3.00 starts into your living room. (apart from going to a pub which is showing it which is pleasurable but expensive)

Equipment that is needed

A 78cm or bigger satellite dish (this is the minimum size needed to pick up the signal) - this can be fixed or motorised. Motorised will give you more of a choice of matches.

A suitable safe surface and mount to put the dish onto either on the ground or on a wall

A digital satellite receiver (not a sky digibox as this will not work)

Cable to connect the dish to the receiver

Possibly a meter to help find a satellite signal (if you pay an installer to fit the equipment you have bought this will not be necessary as they will do it for you)

A card or Cam or maybe both to de-scramble the scrambled signal from the satellite (similar to a sky viewing card)

(I will show you the actual equipment and where to buy it at the end of the instructions)

OK I have bought the stuff

What do I do ?

The dish needs to be pointed at particular Satellite or Satellites(motorised systems) in order to receive the correct signal. There are a number of satellites in the sky which carry foreign channels which broadcast live premiership football, European football and worldwide football and various other unmentionable channels!

The best for receiving Premiership Football on are Hispasat, Astra 1 and Hotbird.

So

The dish needs to be aligned to one of these - for a professional installer this is an extremely easy job and for a fixed dish will only take half an hour and cost about £50. For a motorised  system it will take about 2 hours and cost approximately £120.

or as many people do - DO IT YOURSELF

All the digital satellite receivers I will show you have what is called a signal strength meter(a bar which shows on the screen which gets longer when a signal is being received and from which satellite). . So if you point your dish at a satellite the signal strength meter will pick it up and identify where it is coming from. All the satellites run from East to West in the sky. So with the use of a cheap compass and list of satellite positions (list can be got from www.satellitetvlinks.net  this is an excellent site with lots of interesting information on how to pick all types of channels up or go to a good newsagent and buy a magazine called 'What Satellite TV' . An example all the mini-dishes in the UK which are receiving sky digital are pointed at the Astra 2 satellite at  28.2 degrees East.

To recieve Hotbird point the dish at 13 degrees East

To recieve Astra 1 point the dish at 19.2 degrees East

To recieve Hispasat point the dish at 30 degrees West

If you buy a fixed dish and want to try to different satellites or swap and change quite often it may well be worth investing in a meter to help you find the correct position quicker.

Remember in most cases if you do not like heights (like me) these satellites can be picked up a ground level through your dish providing a big building or big tree isn't in the line of the signal

SOME OF THIS MAY SOUND COMPLICATED BUT IT IS REALLY VERY SIMPLE AND WORTH IT

When you have found the satellite you require perform a channel search so the receiver will find all the channels available (can be 800-1000 for some satellites)

You need to find out which channels are showing the Premiership matches. You can find daily listings of this through www.satellitetvlinks.net

One of the best channels for the 2003-2004 Premiership Season was sporTV a Portugese Sports channel (on Hispasat)which showed Live basically all the Manchester United games. There are many other channels which show the other matches.

It is possible to watch a lot of matches Free to Air but there are also pay packages(where you are sent a card to put in your receiver) to make sure you definitely don't miss your favourite team.You can find out about pay packages through  www.satellitetvlinks.net

Equipment Needed

A dish such as this 80cm dish, it can be solid steel or transparent whichever is preferable.

A Low cost LNB with standard 40mm neck. Light and easy to fit. Like the 0.6dB universal LNB made by SWkyware

A bracket for fixing the LNB

LNB cable

A receiver such as the Manhattan Starlight 6900 which is a powerful receiver U-CAS 2ci, embedded Magic cam, 36v positioner, DisEqC 1.2 (sounds complicated -techno-jargon for it will get the premiership football!!! and much more)

As an Internet user who uses www.satellitetvlinks.net you are entitled to a discount from SatCure (Click on SatCure to go to the SatCure siteand browse the catalogue, however remember to get your £1 discount on the equipment from this site)which is a great supplier where you can buy the above equipment (or alternatives depending on taste). All you need to do is click HERE to get your £1.00 discount.

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Common Mispellings when searching for this information may include the following satalite tv satlite television  saterlight television. A word I often spell wrong is digital satellite receiver I normally always put digital satellite reciever which is spelt wrong - remember the rhyme I before E except after C. LMB cable is often mistaken for LNB cable, some people even call it coaxial cable I think that is spelt correctly. When it football there are various different spellings including futbol futball and even soccer a lot of the world actually call the beautiful game soccer. I wonder where the terminology the beautiful game comes from, any way I digress other common mispellings include premship instead of premiership or like to call the premiership the barclaycard premiership or as it was once known the carling premiership