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Satellite dish installation in Canterbury
Freesat, Sky and international TV for homes across Canterbury, with dishes placed out of sight wherever the city’s conservation rules ask for it.
Established 2000. £5 million public liability insurance. Dishes fitted, moved and repaired across CT1.
Freesat, Skyand TV from abroad
Satellite TV services in Canterbury
New dishes, repairs, Freesat, Sky and channels from abroad, all from the same Canterbury engineers.
Freesat in Canterbury
Over 170 channels, including the main ones in HD, with no monthly bill. It uses the same satellites as Sky, so an old Sky dish can often be reused.
What we doWe check or fit the dish, connect a Freesat recorder or the Freesat tuner inside your TV, then sort the channel list and series links.
Sky dishes in Canterbury
Sky Q still runs from a dish in millions of homes. Moving, replacing or adding a box all need the dish and LNB set up correctly.
What we doWe move and replace Sky dishes, fit wideband LNBs for Sky Q and run cable for extra mini boxes.
Repairs and realignment in Canterbury
A dish knocked a fraction of a degree out of line, a failing LNB or a wet cable will all cause “no satellite signal” messages.
What we doWe test the dish, LNB, cable and box in turn, fix only what has failed and realign the dish on a meter.
TV from abroad in Canterbury
Channels from Poland, Turkey, Romania, the Middle East and beyond come from satellites such as Hotbird, Türksat and Nilesat.
What we doWe fit a dish for the satellite you need, or one dish with two LNBs so you keep Freesat as well.
Multi-room and flats in Canterbury
One dish can feed several rooms, or a whole block of flats, so the walls aren’t covered in separate dishes.
What we doWe fit quad and octo LNBs for multi-room homes, and multi-switch systems for converted houses and blocks.
Fitting a dish in Canterbury
Canterbury has a huge student population and many families who have moved here from abroad, so we fit plenty of dishes for TV in other languages: Polish and Romanian channels from Hotbird, Turkish from Türksat, and Arabic channels from Nilesat. A single dish can often see two satellites, so a household can have Freesat and its home channels together.
Inside the walls and in the conservation areas around them, the best spot for a dish is usually a rear wall, a flat roof or low down in a back garden. The satellite sits low in the southern sky, so a garden pole works well as long as nothing tall stands between it and the south-south-east.
Canterbury satellite questions
Satellite questions we hear in Canterbury. Anything else, just ring.
Can students have a satellite dish in a Canterbury rented house?
Only with the landlord’s permission, as it is a fixture on their building. We can talk to the landlord or agent and fit it so it can be removed cleanly at the end of the tenancy.
Can I get Polish TV in Canterbury?
Yes. Polish channels come from the Hotbird satellite. We fit a dish aimed at Hotbird, or a dish with two LNBs so you get Polish channels and Freesat from one dish.
Do you remove old satellite dishes in Canterbury?
Yes. We take down unused dishes, remove the cable and fill the holes, which is useful before selling or when a listed building needs restoring.
Which way does a satellite dish point in Canterbury?
For Freesat and Sky, towards the Astra 2 satellites: a bearing of about 147°, which is south-south-east, tilted 26.0° above the horizon. Anything tall in that direction, such as a tree, a gable or the house opposite, will block it, so we check the view with a meter before fixing the bracket.
Quicker with a picture
Snap the aerial or dish from the garden, or the error on the TV, and WhatsApp it to us with your postcode. An engineer looks at it and replies with the likely fix and a price.
WhatsApp a photoSatellite dishes near Canterbury
Each town has its own satellite page. For aerials and everything else in Canterbury, see the Canterbury area page or Canterbury aerial repairs.
Talk to a Canterbury engineer
Ring the office, or WhatsApp us a picture of the roof, the dish or whatever your TV is showing. Most of the time we can say what the fault is and give you a price there and then.
WhatsApp us- Our base
- Canterbury, since 2000
- Open
- Monday to Saturday, 8am to 7pm
- Where
- Every part of Kent: Thanet, the coast, Medway, Maidstone, Ashford and the Weald
- Cost
- Repairs from £99. Fixed quotes for everything else