Possible to get free to view channels through redundant sky dish?

There's a sky dish on the roof of the building connected to the flat
I'm in. I'm using a Humax PVR box, with rubbish reception on an indoor
ariel.

Is it possible to use the old Sky dish to receive good digital
reception?

Any help MUCH appreciated!

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There's a sky dish on the roof of the building connected to the flat
I'm in. I'm using a Humax PVR box, with rubbish reception on an indoor
ariel.

Is it possible to use the old Sky dish to receive good digital
reception?

Probably. You'll need a Sky (or similar) STB, plus a viewing card for
channel 4 and 5 (I think) and a few others that are sent across encrypted.

Sell the Humax.

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Max Demian

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There's a sky dish on the roof of the building connected to the flat
I'm in. I'm using a Humax PVR box, with rubbish reception on an indoor
ariel.

Is it possible to use the old Sky dish to receive good digital
reception?

Any help MUCH appreciated!

Presumably you mean Freeview? Almost certainly not, although you could
try it. A better approach would be to fit a Yagi to the dish bracket and
use the feeder from the LNB to your flat.
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Ian G8ILZ

"Prometheus" wrote in message
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In article .com,
writes
There's a sky dish on the roof of the building connected to the flat
I'm in. I'm using a Humax PVR box, with rubbish reception on an indoor
ariel.

Is it possible to use the old Sky dish to receive good digital
reception?

Any help MUCH appreciated!

Presumably you mean Freeview? Almost certainly not, although you could try
it. A better approach would be to fit a Yagi to the dish bracket and use
the feeder from the LNB to your flat.
--
Ian G8ILZ

The mind boggles at trying to connect a Freeview PVR to a Sky dish :-o)
Regards Mike.

In article , Mike GW8IJT
writes
"Prometheus" wrote in message
...
In article .com,
writes
There's a sky dish on the roof of the building connected to the flat
I'm in. I'm using a Humax PVR box, with rubbish reception on an indoor
ariel.

Is it possible to use the old Sky dish to receive good digital
reception?

Any help MUCH appreciated!

Presumably you mean Freeview? Almost certainly not, although you could try
it. A better approach would be to fit a Yagi to the dish bracket and use
the feeder from the LNB to your flat.
--
Ian G8ILZ

The mind boggles at trying to connect a Freeview PVR to a Sky dish :-o)
Regards Mike.

Hence my suggestion.

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Ian G8ILZ

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There's a sky dish on the roof of the building connected to the flat
I'm in. I'm using a Humax PVR box, with rubbish reception on an indoor
ariel.

Is it possible to use the old Sky dish to receive good digital
reception?

Any help MUCH appreciated!

Get a Sky box with a Freeview card in it from EBay.

Bill

Get a Sky box with a **Freeview** card in it from EBay.

Bill

Careful Bill, the guy sounds confused enough as it is.

Graham.
%Profound_observation%

A better approach would be to fit a Yagi to the dish bracket and
use the feeder from the LNB to your flat.
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I'd imagine the residents of the other flats who use the dish might notice!

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Robert

In article , Rob
writes
A better approach would be to fit a Yagi to the dish bracket and
use the feeder from the LNB to your flat.
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I'd imagine the residents of the other flats who use the dish might notice!

I was rather assuming that the statement "There's a sky dish on the roof
of the building connected to the flat I'm in" meant it was only
connected to that flat.

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Ian G8ILZ