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<blockquote data-quote="Riverblue" data-source="post: 855693" data-attributes="member: 389552"><p>You will be able to get Freesat on your existing Sky dish set up. This will give you 161 tv channels at the moment & 37 radio stations, no sports except for the usual BBC/ITV stuff, all you need is a Freesat receiver, basic HD box about £60, and away you go, no more subscriptions. If you want Premier League football/more modern films etc, similar to your Sky set up, then you'll need either;</p><p>1)A motorised dish tracking the arc to pick up a multitude of satellites, various ways of doing this. Quite complicated and probably the most expensive way, but the most variety.</p><p>2)A toroidal fixed dish focused on a single central satellite with multiple lnbs picking up a multitude of satellites. Equally complicated and expensive, slightly less variety. </p><p>3)A fixed dish focused centrally on a single satellite with a multiple lnbs on a special holder adjusted to pick up a small selection of satellites, say 13E,16E,19.2E & 23.5E. Slightly easier, a bit cheaper, but less variety.</p><p>4)A fixed dish pointing at a single satellite, 13E or 19.2E probably being the most popular.Easier & less cost but a more limited variety.</p><p>You will of course need a suitable receiver and cabling/switching with all of the above.</p><p>All of the above CAN be done by a beginner, but you would need to be a capable sort of person with the right tools, all the info is here on this site somewhere, you just have to do some searching and reading. If you get stuck, there's always help available on here, just ask. Or installed professionally, of course, there are lots of installers on here.</p><p>Just to note, none of the above will offer you the same as Sky, but you can get a lot of what you want, you'll just have to work at it. This 'hobby' is not one where once you're set up and going, you can sit back and relax. There will always be something that needs retuning, parameters need changing, something needs tweaking/adjusting etc, I hope you get the idea. If you don't mind all that then I'm sure you will enjoy it and get what you want.<img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Riverblue, post: 855693, member: 389552"] You will be able to get Freesat on your existing Sky dish set up. This will give you 161 tv channels at the moment & 37 radio stations, no sports except for the usual BBC/ITV stuff, all you need is a Freesat receiver, basic HD box about £60, and away you go, no more subscriptions. If you want Premier League football/more modern films etc, similar to your Sky set up, then you'll need either; 1)A motorised dish tracking the arc to pick up a multitude of satellites, various ways of doing this. Quite complicated and probably the most expensive way, but the most variety. 2)A toroidal fixed dish focused on a single central satellite with multiple lnbs picking up a multitude of satellites. Equally complicated and expensive, slightly less variety. 3)A fixed dish focused centrally on a single satellite with a multiple lnbs on a special holder adjusted to pick up a small selection of satellites, say 13E,16E,19.2E & 23.5E. Slightly easier, a bit cheaper, but less variety. 4)A fixed dish pointing at a single satellite, 13E or 19.2E probably being the most popular.Easier & less cost but a more limited variety. You will of course need a suitable receiver and cabling/switching with all of the above. All of the above CAN be done by a beginner, but you would need to be a capable sort of person with the right tools, all the info is here on this site somewhere, you just have to do some searching and reading. If you get stuck, there's always help available on here, just ask. Or installed professionally, of course, there are lots of installers on here. Just to note, none of the above will offer you the same as Sky, but you can get a lot of what you want, you'll just have to work at it. This 'hobby' is not one where once you're set up and going, you can sit back and relax. There will always be something that needs retuning, parameters need changing, something needs tweaking/adjusting etc, I hope you get the idea. If you don't mind all that then I'm sure you will enjoy it and get what you want.:) [/QUOTE]
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