Dragonsat Zone 1 Satellite Dish & Quad Lnb for Sky Freesat HD SD

Great package, all bolts and dish provided... All you need is some Bolts to fix the bracket to the wallLNB fantastic as I have been looking for a dish that had a 4 cable LNB feed which was value for money. Build quality is fab and looks just like a sky dish, plus the LNB connectors have a protective jacket that slides down once the cables are installed.Word of advice, research whether a zone 1 (this one) or zone 2 would be more suitable as certain parts of the UK will require a different dish (mainly Scotland)

Arrived reasonably quickly and had all the parts required to mount the dish to a wall. There were no instructions but it was fairly easy to work out what went where. I bought this dish and LNB to replace my old dish and LNB which had started behaving erratically. With the help of a Sat' tune meter (bought separately), it was very quick and easy to set up.For the first time, I now have 100% signal and 100% quality on my receiver. My old dish was giving 90 and 80 percent. Very pleased.

I wanted to try out Freesat because I live in a marginal area for Freeview reception and we regularly get days when the signal breaks up. My TV came with a built in Freesat tuner and the price of the Systemsat dish was attractive enough for a "let's see how it works" purchase. I didn't bother with any signal strength or satellite location tools, but instead used the SatFinder app, which is free download from the Google Play Store, to align the dish. In the end, the experiment was successful. I was able to readily install and use the dish, and Freesat is now our default choice for free to air TV. In two months of using it, there have been no signal break ups.I was surprised at how simple a satellite dish is. It is basically a mesh reflector, a support bracket and a metal arm, with an active component - the LNB - on the end of the arm. The supplier obviously thought it was so simple that they did not even bother to include any instructions on how to assemble and install... The product would be greatly improved by including a simple factsheet telling the purchaser about the YouTube video on how to assemble it and, even more importantly, how to set the elevation correctly. The skill level needed to install the dish is more than beginner level but perhaps not quite intermediate. This could have been a 5 star review, but has to be downgraded to 4 stars given the lack of any documentation.The YouTube video on assembly was good enough for me. The only problem I had was that the screws that attach the mesh dish to its bracket needed some persuasion to bite.Mounting on the wall is straightforward enough and one of the good things about satellite dishes compared with TV aerials is that you don't have to put them on the roof. Any outside wall is good enough as long as the dish has an unimpeded line of sight to the Astra 28.2E satellite used for Freesat. However, aligning the dish is the next problem and I had to do some research on this in order to get the dish working.This is where the Satfinder app came in useful. It comes with a database of most TV satellites and, when looking up Astra 28.2E, it told me the elevation, skew and azimuth I needed to use. The latter was shown interactively, using GPS, and allowed me to point my phone directly at the satellite and hence choose a location with direct line of sight. I used this to select a location on the outside wall nearest the TV and only just above head height.The satellite dish mounting bracket used four coach bolts. You need a 10mm masonary drill to make the mounting holes in a brick wall and the bracket must be level. I used a spirit level to draw a horizontal line on the wall and then marked the holes by lining up the bracket on the wall with this line bisecting the top two holes. The dish then slots into the bracket with two bolts used to secure it top and bottom - although you only tighten these bolts once you have lined the dish up in the horizontal plane (i.e. set the correct azimuth). This is where the satfinder app really works well. All you need to do is to line up your phone with the satellite dish arm and then move the two together until the phone display tells you that they are pointing at the satellite.The problem comes with setting the elevation. The app tells you the required elevation in degrees (for your location). However, there are no markings (in degrees) on the dish support bracket. How are you expected to set the elevation correctly? Only by comparing with a neighbour's Sky dish did I realised how to do this. The attached photo shows you how to set the elevation for Astra 28.2E. Note that there are two holes through the bracket and circled in red. The mounting bracket should half obscure the lower of the two holes. This is for southern England. Further north you will have to point the dish a degree or so further downwards i.e. more of the hole should be obscured. This is very much a dish supplied for Astra 28.2E rather than for general use.Finally, I had to level and set the skew on the LNB. A small spirit level is part of the LNB and the mounting bracket bolts at the back of the dish can be slackened in order to level it properly - along as you are not too far out. The skew has to be set in order to compensate for the curvature of the Earth and to avoid horizontally and vertically polarised signals interfering with each other. The satfinder database said that a 22 degree skew was needed for my location. However, comparing the dish with my neighbour's suggested that this was too much. Googling the subject, it seems that the Astra satellite already has an 11 deg counter-skew and hence I only needed to set an 11 degree skew. At least the Labgear LNB has the skew angle marked on it (in degrees) and I was able to set the skew easily enough - once I had found out what it should be i.e. (22 - 11 ) = 11 degrees for my location - by just turning the LNB to the correct setting and doing up the clamp bolt. Looking from the front, the LNB should appear to drop down to the right. See 2nd photo.Finally, all I needed to do was to run an RG6 coax cable from the LNB to my TV using F connectors on both ends. My dish came with a four output LNB and should be able to service up to four TVs or Freesat boxes. I didn't bother with putting a rubber boot on the F connector as the LNB came with a drop down weather shield. I disconnected the TV at the mains when connecting the coax. The TV powers the LNB and there is a risk of a static shock damaging the LNB if you connected it while the TV is powered.I was then able to tune my TV to Freesat - largely automatic once I selected Freesat autotune from the installation menu. To finalise the installation, I selected a channel which I would usually watch and then selected the TV's diagnostic mode in order to show the channel's signal strength and quality in real time. I could then make micro adjustments to the dish's azimuth and elevation in order to get the best signal strength. It helps here to have an assistant (and use a mobile phone as an intercom).This is a good product and installation is well within DIY capability. However, it would be significantly improved by including some guidance on how to align the dish and, in particular, how to set the elevation.

I received this Systemat Zone 1 Sat Dish and quad LNB two days ahead of the first estimated day of delivery - excellent service. I tried the dish this morning simply setting it up on my back doorstep on a tripod. It worked perfectly with my spare sky box and I live on the far north coast of Scotland and hundreds of miles outside the so called zone 1. this did not surprise me as I was previously using a smaller supermarket and flimsier dish in Scotland and Ireland with good results. This dish will be a stronger replacement for use when in my motorhome. According to many posts on the web an 80 centimeter dish is recommended from my area but I have found this dish performs as well as my large Sky dish on the end of my house.

Replaced my old dish, this was an exact match to my old dish, so very easy for me to put together. The dish is of excellent build quality and I was surprised at this price, just how good it was. It works 100% perfectly and is a great design that makes setting up and positioning a doddle.

Does what it says on the box, combined with the other components, I have to give five stars for all the components and service together as I had no problems . I bought a "Systemsat Zone 1 Satellite Dish & Quad Lnb for Sky Freesat HD SD" and a "1m Satellite F Connector for Sky Cable Black Lead GOLD TV Digital Male to Male" to align the dish to the satellite combined with the "Konig Satfinder Satellite Installation Tool"And a "20m Black Twin Satellite Shotgun Cable Sky Plus & Free Clips, Extension Or Feed Cable For Sky Plus, Sky HD, Freesat Plus" run from the front of the house to the rear on the outside wall, great signal, well satisfied, fairly cheap option, price the components up yourself on amazon. Quite fast delivery of all components, once I got them all I just had to install them which was not too bad, everybody's situation will be different. I cheated on the last legs and my son did the alignment of the dish using the lead and sat finder, I think I would have been able to do it though, just would have taken longer, he used Internet sites for alignment information. I would probably have bought the rubber boots at the same time for the connectors on the dish and if you have a large house you will need a longer cable to run round the outside wall, best to pace out or measure the distance.

I was quoted £150 for a simple dish installation - all wiring was in place just a dish needed fixing to the wall. I did it myself for less than a third the price. Alignment was actually quite easy, check the web for instructions or videos and look at neighbours alignments. My Sat Box has a signal strength readout and was already tuned so it was just a case of tweaking the alignment once mounted. DIY and don’t get ripped off.