Community t.v. dish the latest

We have today had the Community t.v. dishes (the yellow ones at the pool and the one in the garden of 37 phase 1) checked to see if we are able to connect them to provide U.K. t.v. following the problems with Telmicro Levante. The engineers report has come back as stating that these dishes are now too low as the large apartment blocks have gone up since they were installed and are blocking any reception. Furthermore, we are informed that even extending the pole will make little or no difference to reception.

Many owners have now decided to subscrible to Torresat as the debarcle with Telmicro Levante seems to be ongoing and there is no suggestion that they will be up and running shortly. We cannot however, recommend that you stay or change providers that is individual choice. If you wish to change we can of course get you phone numbers and programme information. For you t.v. buffs out there the large yellow dishes belong to the Community i.e. you and if you wish to pay for connection to these to allow you to watch t.v. from your sky box that you have in the U.K. then by all means do so. I understand that this is legal but in breach of your contract with Sky but as it is your contract then it is of course up to you and nothing to do with the Community.

The Communal ariels however, are a different matter and cannot be interferred with. All Urbanisations must provide the facility (i.e. ariel) for owners of properties to receive Spanish t.v. On the surface this may seem odd especially in an area of mainly U.K. majority owners. I have looked into this and the reason is that should there be a disaster of national importance the Spanish government (as of course the British do too) rely on the t.v. to broadcast transmittion of information.

I have also just learned that we (as a Community) may have to pay to have the Spanish ariels upgraded to digital before 2010 as this is the law so I will look into this as a budgeted item for next years A.G.M.