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Hi everyone

Right first of all I'm a complete novide when it comes to this, so don't flame me or reply with abusive comments!!

I have just moved into my new house and it has a Sattelite dish at the front and a lead that runs through to the living room. at the end of this lead a long thin copper wire that is a about 2 inches long sticks out.

My question is there anything I can do with this???

Can I get a a sky digibox and receive all the free digital channels.





or is it best just to rip the whole thing out?


your help is much appreciated.
 
thuynh7 said:
Hi everyone

Right first of all I'm a complete novide when it comes to this, so don't flame me or reply with abusive comments!!

I have just moved into my new house and it has a Sattelite dish at the front and a lead that runs through to the living room. at the end of this lead a long thin copper wire that is a about 2 inches long sticks out.

My question is there anything I can do with this???

Can I get a a sky digibox and receive all the free digital channels.





or is it best just to rip the whole thing out?


your help is much appreciated.
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You dont say where you live. you will need to know where the dish is pointing to and what size it is in cm.
 
thuynh7 said:
Hi everyone

Right first of all I'm a complete novide when it comes to this, so don't flame me or reply with abusive comments!!

I have just moved into my new house and it has a Sattelite dish at the front and a lead that runs through to the living room. at the end of this lead a long thin copper wire that is a about 2 inches long sticks out.

My question is there anything I can do with this???

Can I get a a sky digibox and receive all the free digital channels.





or is it best just to rip the whole thing out?


your help is much appreciated.
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Welcome m8.

You don't say much about the dish, so in all probability it's a S*Y minidish, pointed at 28.2 degrees east. Assuming it's not damaged, or mal-alligned and the coax is sound, you can just trim the end of the coax like you would with a TV coax, and fit a screw-on F-connector, available at any DIY shop.

Then just get hold of an old digibox, buy a £20 Freesat card from S*Y (1 off payment) and off you go. Similar package to Freeview.

Check out :- _http://www.freesatfromsky.com/?pID=6

for more details.

For BBC channels and a few others, you don't even need a card, so you can test it first. :)

STICK
 
Thanks

I forgot to say I'm in the Uk and I guess the the dish is an old S*Y dish.

Haven't got a clue about what make the dish is and where it is pointing!

Thanks BGonaSTICK for pointing me in the right direction about FREESAT.




BGonaSTICK said:
Welcome m8.

You don't say much about the dish, so in all probability it's a S*Y minidish, pointed at 28.2 degrees east. Assuming it's not damaged, or mal-alligned and the coax is sound, you can just trim the end of the coax like you would with a TV coax, and fit a screw-on F-connector, available at any DIY shop.

Then just get hold of an old digibox, buy a £20 Freesat card from S*Y (1 off payment) and off you go. Similar package to Freeview.

Check out :- _http://www.freesatfromsky.com/?pID=6

for more details.

For BBC channels and a few others, you don't even need a card, so you can test it first. :)

STICK
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N.P.

If it's a small 'squashed' dish, and looks similar to everybody else's, then you're probably OK.
 
you could just get a box off ebay like golden interstar 8005ci and connect it to the cable. then you can see what you get. i have done this and not moved the disd (although i will) and you can get loads of channels from different satellites.

i get
eurobird (s*y)
astra1 and 2 i think and then select channels off other such as hipasat.
or you could then move your dish and try and get others.
 
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