Freeview aerial comparison

[Rodders53]

Which is where a sat dish excels..

Until the boat rocks (or is a very expensive sat-following motorised job).
Or especially if there are trees between the boat and satellite, or even canal-side and it if placed on the land by the mooring.
Tricky enough finding a pitch with a clear view on a caravan site sometimes.

I've read that a loft aerial can expect a 30% reduction in signal strength compare to an outside mount.

You have mis-read that: -10dB Voltage = multiply by 0.316.
So you get 31% of the signal cf outside = a 69% reduction.

 

[Lucid]

Which is where a sat dish excels..

If you have clear line of sight to make it work. Of course, if you do, then happy days. Satellite carries far more HD versions of the channel mix for a start. Caravanners love them. I find that boaty people are less enthused. They say it mostly comes down to storage space.

So many now use their mobile phone and just stream what they want to watch. An aerial on a mast can be stowed when not in use, so it's an acceptable backup. Cheaper, too, which seems to be important for some. Your mileage may vary, as they say.

 

[flameport]

Which is where a sat dish excels..

Only for a few more years.

Gone in 3.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Until the boat rocks (or is a very expensive sat-following motorised job).

You would sit the dish, on the ground, which doesn't (usually) rock.

 

[Rodders53]

Only for a few more years.

Gone in 3.

Not confirmed anywhere e.g. by BBC or the Government, just speculation based on known Contract dates ($ky/SES) and estimated Lifetime of the birds (which has always been conservative).

You would sit the dish, on the ground, which doesn't (usually) rock.

No I wouldn't.

 

[flameport]

BBC or the Government,

That organisation has zero influence in what commercial media providers decide to pay for,

Sky has a contract to use the satellites until 2029. They won't be renewing it as large parts of their service have already moved to streaming and the rest will follow.
The satellites are EOL in 2030. Theoretically they might totter on for a few more months or years.
They won't be replaced as Sky is the primary user of them.

Freesat as a service is in massive decline, along with linear TV viewing in general. There is no way those who own it will be paying for expensive satellite replacements just to serve a tiny market of people who don't pay anything.

 

[Rodders53]

Unless you are in the game, with direct negotiations with these types (and I retired so got out of that 20 years ago) you are just speculating.

If in the game you'd not be able to say and keep your job!

 

[Lucid]

You would sit the dish, on the ground, which doesn't (usually) rock.

That works for a caravan pitch, but not so much for a typical mooring point that a canal boat might use.

 

[spile]

That works for a caravan pitch, but not so much for a typical mooring point that a canal boat might use.

No reason why not. It would depend on the mooring (former NB owner). That said a roof mount apart from when getting on and off would be fine for most folk.

 

[Lucid]

No reason why not. It would depend on the mooring (former NB owner). That said a roof mount apart from when getting on and off would be fine for most folk.

I didn't rule it out completely. Just that when you have a row of 50ft steel tubes all moored along a length of tow path, and they're sitting between a ground level dish on that tow path and the line of sight view to a satellite barely 25 degrees above the horizon, then things get a bit tricky.