I borrowed one of those little caravanning satellite dish's from my dad last weekend. He bought it in lidl last year and it was never taken out of the box. We went to killarney for the weeekend in our caravan. I have to say, I never set up a dish before and was sceptical but I was surprised to find it worked brilliantly. The suction cup attachment did not work, the dish fell off after 30 mins when fitted to the glass window (pre cleaned with glass cleaner as recommended) But I was able to clamp the dish to the jockey wheel on the front of the caravan with a "g clamp" thing supplied with the kit.
I went to the setup menu, found the signal strength and quality bars and I was able to find the right position in about 4-5 minutes using the directions in the manual. With the TV pointed towards the window and the volume up high (to hear the audible indicator) I was able to get a signal quality about 75-80%. The pre set channels were a bit messed up, a lot of them not working, but we did find BBC1, BBC2, ITV3, UTV. Loads of german channels. I didnt bother going through all the pre set channels as there were hundreds but I'm sure there were others worth watching... Very impressed with the dish, it didnt flinch one bit all weekend, even when we had heavy rain, the signal didnt fade. Tidy little black dish about 40cm wide and about 50cm high, easy assemble and dissasemble, easy to store in its grey case in the caravan and even looks pretty cool while set up outside... got a few guys coming over asking about it, wondering if it was good or bad. The decoder supplied with it was slow to respond to input, maybe 2-3 seconds to catch up with the remote control inputs but it was acceptable for our needs.
My question for you guys, Could I use my home Sky decoder with this little dish? I could bring my decoder and viewing card and have all the channels I have subscribed to at home... I think I might buy one of these for myself if I can use my sky box with the lidl dish.