Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

Is there a company in or near Girne who installs dishes?
Or who just sells them? I can probably manage the installation myself

Has anyone recently had a dish installed? Or bought one?
Any idea of the rough cost?

I have a receiver already, to bring over from the UK.
I'm just after some freesat channels to watch whilst visiting.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

Chris

Hi

Agip installs dishes. Tel 0533 840 2207. If you speak to Agip he will advise you.

We have a 2metre dish for sale £100 including bracket & 25m of cable. Tel Martyn on 0533 842 0349.

Thanks for the prompt reply. I'll give him a ring.
I'm in the uk until feb so you will have probably sold it by then.
If you still have it in feb I'll be interested in looking at it.

Cheers

Chris

You cannot receive Freesat channels in Cyprus and now only a few Sky channels

Thanks jimm, so there is no point setting up a satellite system then?
Is there any other way to get free tv?
What about a normal arial?

Chris

Chris, I think that jimm meant that you cannot receive 'UK Freesat' transmissions in Cyprus.

There are plenty of Free-to-Air English Language (and American English Language ) programmes , often with Arabic subtitles, available from the Nilesat satellite, for which you should ideally use a 1 Metre dish - you can get away with a smaller dish until we have a bout of rainy weather, but then you will wonder where half of your programmes have gone

A standard cheap digital satellite receiver will suffice - £25 or thereabouts.

There are more sophisticated bits of kit available here, that attempt to break the encryption used for the 'Pay TV' channels - but as the codes are constantly changing, that option is not for the faint -hearted.

Of course, using a normal TV aerial, plugged straight into the TV, you can receive Terrestrial TV, from the TV transmitters dotted around on the top of the Besparmak mountain range - these programmes are in Turkish, apart from the odd half-hour of News and occasional features in English. It would certainly help to improve your spoken Turkish though!

Most modern (Analogue) TV sets will automatically adapt to the local transmission standard, which is slightly different from the 'PAL - I' which was used in the UK (before it all went tits up- sorry, went DIGITAL ).

There are no Digital Terrestrial transmissions here, as yet, so if you have a 'Digital Only' TV, you would not be able to use that part of it, and the only option would be an external receiver - either Satellite, or perhaps a Video / DVD recorder (used as a receiver) which could feed one of the auxiliary inputs on the TV.

The above all relates to your question, but there are also companies which endeavor to supply 'UK TV' (either somewhat limited content from 'Digiturk' or more extensive, albeit 'Pirated' from others) via Satellite, or Internet, and the Internet is perfectly viable as a DIY option also, given a good enough ISP.

The reference to 'Pirated' is somewhat tongue-in-cheek as some of the systems are actually licensed and 'sort-of' legitimate, just not, strictly speaking, licensed for use in Cyprus. Rather like the situation used to be with SKY. But that is more a question of geographical restrictions placed by the Broadcasters on the use of the transmitted material.

Thanks Keith very informative.

I only want a bit of entertainment at night so whether its in English, Turkish, Arabic, American it doesn't matter.
Sounds like a combination of a cheap receiver (which I have) and a big enough dish, plus a standard arial will get me started.

Thanks peeps!

Hi
I have lost a few Nilesat channels over last weeks.
Is this atmospheric interference or has Bloomberg been taken down from transmitting.

CatalkoyChris wrote:I only want a bit of entertainment at night so whether its in English, Turkish, Arabic, American it doesn't matter.
Sounds like a combination of a cheap receiver (which I have) and a big enough dish, plus a standard arial will get me started.

Thanks peeps!

If you give Paul a bell,tell him what you want,he will advise you. At a guess I would say (if you have the freedom package from multimax) he will say all you need is a android box, to watch loads of free channels (film on) I use this system and it's great,we can also get loads of free films and tv series ie breaking bad,homeland,anything you want really. http://www.satellitecyprus.net/sky_tv_cyprus/