Television in a pharmacy ? It may seem a little strange, but the people who work there also want to have access to current news or sports events. The main question is whether TV channels will be available only to pharmacy employees or also to customers on the sales floor, if the first option is in question, it is enough to sign a contract for the company, choose a decoder and the appropriate program package. In the second case it will already be public broadcasting and you need to conclude a special agreement with Polsat with an additional fee covering copyrights, unfortunately the number of channels with such an agreement is very limited and the price of the subscription itself depends on the size of the room where the TV set is installed. Once you have decided on the type of agreement, you need to determine the place for the installation of the satellite dish and how you will lay the coaxial cable to the decoder, which will be located near the TV in the office or in the hall where the customers are.

POLSAT antenna setup and installation

In most cases, pharmacies in Warsaw are located on the first floor of an apartment block or inside a shopping mall and the antenna will have to be mounted on the roof, so we have to reckon with running even a few dozen meters of cable from the antenna to the decoder. If we exceed 100m we should buy and use a linear amplifier (for satellite band) mounted somewhere in the middle of the distance between the devices, you can also dispense with the amplifier and instead of the standard RG6 cable run twice as thick RG11 cable which has more than twice the signal attenuation but is more difficult to lay due to its high rigidity.

We mount the satellite dish to a metal scaffolding which, as a rule, are located on the roofs of shopping malls, in blocks of flats it will be a chimney or a wall from the elevator engine room, remembering that we must be oriented to the south. The setting of the antenna itself is commissioned to the fitter from the Polsat showroom, do not try to do it yourself, the installers have special digital signal meters, they will adjust the antenna with the converter quickly and professionally and we will be sure of good reception of all TV channels.

Once we have all the elements of the installation ready, we turn on the decoder and connect it to the TV with an HDMI cable and, if necessary, we can also connect a home theater set or soundbar for better sound. The first time we turn it on, the decoder will search for all the channels from the satellite and an activation screen will appear, we call Polsat customer service, give the subscriber or card number and the consultant, after confirming our data, activates the subscriber card placed in the decoder.