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Father in law has a sky sat dish and has been given a freesat box. He is no longer with sky. Can he use the Sky dish with the freesat box as we tried today but no joy. Ta
Sky dish - Freesat Box
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Soldato
Yup, are you sure the dish is still correctly aligned?
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I fitted a freesat box in the parents house just a few days ago, running fine off there old sky dish.
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i thought you had to get a freesat card from sky for it to work correctly with the skybox. £20 iirc
Not using skybox. Using freesat box
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£25 actually got one fitted if you don't watch much telly its a great idea
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Ours works fine with freesat HD. If its been a while since he had sky maybe the dish has been knocked out of allignment.
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When you turn the freesat box on, it should be able to show you the signal strength. Check that should tell you if the dish is out of alignment or not. (I Think lol)
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I used to run our Freesat HD+ off our old Sky Dish. Just had to buy a new 4-way antenna to replace the old single way one and got a Satellite Tuner from Screwfix for £10 to align it. Easy Peasy.
http://www.screwfix.com/p/slx-satellite-finder-meter/27154
http://www.screwfix.com/p/slx-satellite-finder-meter/27154
Right, think it needs realigning. Is that easy to do?
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Get hold of a satellite tuner like I posted above, take the coaxial from your Freesat unit to the tuner and a little link out of your tuner to your reciever, then move the dish about until you get as high as possible reading on the meter. Tis' a right doddle.
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Don't forget Freesat boxes don't have an RF output, so you won't be able to send the picture around the house and use magic eyes, like you can with a sky box.
He had the freesat box off of his sister and it asks what the post code is. When he types his in it says invalid?
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Use her postcode it wont be an issue any postcode near him will be fine.