If you have already a Sky mini-dish attached to your house and pointed at the Sky satellite, you can use the same dish for receiving Freesat.
Just plug the cable coming from the dish to back of your new receiver. That’s it. No need to get a new dish or upgrade anything.
Freesat and Sky are broadcast from the same satellite. So the same dish size and dish direction can be used.
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May 21st, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Sky dont own the satellites Astra & Eutelsat do.
August 3rd, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Does anyone have experience of Freesat in Italy? How big a dish etc.?
Dick Graham
August 15th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
What if the cable is severed? what do i need to connect it again?
November 6th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Hello there. Many thanks for the info on this website. I have managed to setup my sky dish and get 80% quality and strength. However, I have one problem: I cannot get channel 4. I was wondering if you could shed some light on this? I have tested and every other channel works, i.e. ITV, BBC1, 2, 3, etc. I have the correct sattelite, i.e. 0002 and 07d4 data stream. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.
November 9th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Sahin:
I think channel 4 still shows as channel number 8350. Tune into this channel and then change the name.
November 13th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Will the cable attached to sky HD STILL WORK AS THIS IS A SPLIT CABLE WITH CONNECTION 1 & 2
November 18th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Anthony: Didn’t quite understand the question. What are you trying to do?
November 19th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Thanks for the information on using a sky satellite for freesat hd. I have a standard sky box and a new panasonic free sat tv. Can I run both services from one ariel using some type of adapter and can I buy such a thing.
November 20th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Peter:
You can buy a twin lnb for your dish.