looking at buying a tm800...currently have no dish etc fitted anyone advise me on price/ what i need, dish size etc etc and best place to buy?
cheers.
If you going to be buying new for the first time, then I'd stick with a UK supplier. In the event anything goes wrong you'll get a better response in both time and postage costs. Also if you buy your dish and box from the same place, you may even get a package deal or a discount, and it will include everything you need from cable to fixings.
I've only used one supplier to date so cant coment on others, but wizardsatellite.co.uk were good for me. My only gripe with their online ordering was that you sometimes have to enter a discount code for special offers, which I didn't notice at the time and missed out a little.
As for dish size, wether its fixed or motorised, will depend on your specific needs, your view to the satellite arc. A bigger dish will usually give you better reception in bad weather, but also be affected more by high winds.
Have a look on the sat listing sites for the channels you want to recieve, as there is little point having a motorised dish to pick up hispasat on 30w unless you speak spannish/portuguese and have a subscription.
dishpointer.com
uses google maps and will show you the direction your dish will be pointing for specific sats along with other information including very easy to read footprint maps.
lyngsat.com and kingofsat.net
give easy to read sat listings
have fun csb