Can I use an existing sky dish with a freeview box? and if so can the two servic
Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV No, you cannot use a satellite box to receive terrestrial programmes.
I don't want to use a satellite box I have a freeview box. I want to know if an existing dish for sky can be use with the freeview box.Can I use a cable splitter and run one end to the sky box the the other to a freeview box and get the freeview channels.
You cannot use a Freeview receiver with a satellite dish, only an aerial.
You also cannot split a satellite signal from a dish, if you want to run more than one box you must use a dual- or quad-LNB on the satellite dish and have a cable to each satellite receiver.
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Sunday, 9 January 2011
Les Nicol
9:46 PM
9:46 PM
P.S Keith - Whichever choice you go for it's a straight swop over of receiver. If it's SKY your going with however you will need to contact them if you intend making use of the recording play/pause facility of a SKY plus HD box.
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Monday, 10 January 2011
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
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dee8:04 PM
hi.
i moved to a house that has a sky dish.can i buy a sky box from ebay and get it to work?i dnt want any record/pause feature.just the free sky channels.and does the box need a viewing card?
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Thursday, 27 January 2011
dee: Buy a Freesat box from a high street store, see Upgrading from Sky to Freesat
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Wednesday, 2 February 2011
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chris10:58 AM
I have sky downstairs in my lounge, if i want to put a tv in the bedroom just to watch poor mans tv can i run this from my sky dish or do i need an ariel?
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Wednesday, 16 March 2011
This helped loads thank you, saved me a lot of time as I was going to try this. Glad I looked here first :-D
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Thursday, 17 March 2011
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richard5:01 PM
Bishop Auckland
If i were to buy a high gain yagi areial and place it on my roof..would i recieve freeview channels from pontop pike transmitter?
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richard's: mapR's Freeview map terrainR's terrain plot wavesR's frequency data R's Freeview Detailed Coverage
Monday, 21 March 2011
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Mike Dimmick5:42 PM
Reading
richard: The hills at Long Law and Horseshoe Hill are in the way. You're in a fairly deep valley, where transmissions from the main transmitters don't reach. The Rookhope relay transmitter is your only option for Freeview, once it switches over - currently it only transmits analogue signals. It will be a Freeview Light transmitter at switchover, relaying the public-service multiplexes from Bilsdale.
The switchover date has not yet been set - we currently expect some time in September next year.
For a greater range of channels, or to get them sooner, consider Freesat.
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Mike's: mapM's Freeview map terrainM's terrain plot wavesM's frequency data M's Freeview Detailed Coverage
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