freesat thicko advice

[ijenk64]

Dear learned people.

I have an echostar receiver with two ci slots and embedded viacess,its a 2110 I think, hooked up to hotbird and astra 19.2

What I need to know is can I switch this to my to my sky dish and pick up freesat.

thanks for any Info.

Ive been out of the fta satellite game for a while, ever since they got rid of tv1000 and flimnet

cheers
Ian

 

[satelliteman]

Welcome,

Plenty fta channels on 28e. You should receive all these channels in SD, just need to set your receiver for Astra 2.
You won't have the freesat EPG of course, this only by using a freesat receiver.

 

[gameboy]

Unless you use a Sky box I don't think you will receive some channels like Channel 4 or 5 as they still use the Sky encryption.

A Freesat box has this built in.

 

[satelliteman]

Channel 4 is free to air on 10.729, tagged as '8350'

 

[kip]

Channel 4 regional transmissions have started now fta, Astra 2D @ 28.2 east 10714H

 

[Analoguesat]

Channel 4 regional transmissions have started now fta, Astra 2D @ 28.2 east 10714H

All scrambled at ftv level a couple of days ago

 

[satelliteman]

Only programming on that transponder that's fta is Film 4, Film 4 +1 & More 4 UK +1 I believe