Sky dish with freview tv - unbelievable??

I understood that you need a freesat STB to get tv from the 3rd LNB (first
2 used for sky plus)of a sky dish? has something changed? - My ex had
someone run a coax from the 3rd lnb to give my daughter tv in her bedroom -
the old freesat box they had didnt work so the guy used a fscrew-aerial
adaptor and plugged into the aerial socket of a Logik freeview tv and got a
picture straight away - no further investigations done - is this possible
?? if so how ?


puzzled


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Ghostrecon wrote:

My ex had someone run a coax from the 3rd lnb to give my daughter tv
in her bedroom - the old freesat box they had didnt work so the guy
used a fscrew-aerial adaptor and plugged into the aerial socket of a
Logik freeview tv and got a picture straight away

Sounds like dish/lead is acting as a glorified coathanger.

On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:11:29 +0100, Ghostrecon wrote:

I understood that you need a freesat STB to get tv from the 3rd LNB (first
2 used for sky plus)of a sky dish? has something changed? - My ex had
someone run a coax from the 3rd lnb to give my daughter tv in her bedroom -
the old freesat box they had didnt work so the guy used a fscrew-aerial
adaptor and plugged into the aerial socket of a Logik freeview tv and got a
picture straight away - no further investigations done - is this possible
?? if so how ?


puzzled

Stray pickup. Is she close to a transmitter? She will probably get the
same or better signal with a set-top aerial plugged in instead.

I wonder why the Freesat box didn't work, I would try it on one of the
known working feeds on the Sky Plus, then she will know if the box is
still working.



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Ghostrecon wrote:

I understood that you need a freesat STB to get tv from the 3rd LNB (first
2 used for sky plus)of a sky dish? has something changed? - My ex had
someone run a coax from the 3rd lnb to give my daughter tv in her bedroom -
the old freesat box they had didnt work so the guy used a fscrew-aerial
adaptor and plugged into the aerial socket of a Logik freeview tv and got a
picture straight away - no further investigations done - is this possible
?? if so how ?

Probably not. My Freeview TV happens to have a satellite receiver that I
don't use (not Freesat, just free-to-air satellite) but that tuner section
has an F-socket. I'd guess that you are close to a main Freeview
transmitter and that a signal is leaking in somehow.

What is the model of the TV?

On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 17:43:37 +0100, Dave Farrance wrote:

Ghostrecon wrote:

I understood that you need a freesat STB to get tv from the 3rd LNB (first
2 used for sky plus)of a sky dish? has something changed? - My ex had
someone run a coax from the 3rd lnb to give my daughter tv in her bedroom -
the old freesat box they had didnt work so the guy used a fscrew-aerial
adaptor and plugged into the aerial socket of a Logik freeview tv and got a
picture straight away - no further investigations done - is this possible
?? if so how ?

Probably not. My Freeview TV happens to have a satellite receiver that I
don't use (not Freesat, just free-to-air satellite) but that tuner section
has an F-socket. I'd guess that you are close to a main Freeview
transmitter and that a signal is leaking in somehow.

What is the model of the TV?

its a LOGIK L32HE13 32 cheapy (£190 i think) but since I didnt buy it and
dont live there I'm not sure - had a quick look but only a standard aerial
socket
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"Dave Farrance" wrote
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Ghostrecon wrote:

I understood that you need a freesat STB to get tv from the 3rd
LNB (first
2 used for sky plus)of a sky dish? has something changed? - My
ex had
someone run a coax from the 3rd lnb to give my daughter tv in
her bedroom -
the old freesat box they had didnt work so the guy used a
fscrew-aerial
adaptor and plugged into the aerial socket of a Logik freeview
tv and got a
picture straight away - no further investigations done - is
this possible
?? if so how ?

Probably not. My Freeview TV happens to have a satellite
receiver that I
don't use (not Freesat, just free-to-air satellite) but that
tuner section
has an F-socket. I'd guess that you are close to a main
Freeview
transmitter and that a signal is leaking in somehow.

What is the model of the TV?



FTA satellite is Freesat - the Sky version is called
Freesat-from-Sky.


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"Ghostrecon" wrote in message
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I understood that you need a freesat STB to get tv from the 3rd LNB (first
2 used for sky plus)of a sky dish? has something changed? - My ex had
someone run a coax from the 3rd lnb to give my daughter tv in her
bedroom -
the old freesat box they had didnt work so the guy used a fscrew-aerial
adaptor and plugged into the aerial socket of a Logik freeview tv and got
a
picture straight away - no further investigations done - is this possible
?? if so how ?


puzzled



These days $ky engineers usually fit quad LNB's so you should get Freesat
off the other two [unused] ports.

Many satellite receivers have IF out. When the box is off the signal is
passed through unaltered (apart from insertion loss) and whatever is plugged
in selects the band and polarity. When the box is on it controls band and
polarity and you can only tune channels with the same of both.

Ghostrecon wrote:

its a LOGIK L32HE13 32 cheapy (£190 i think) but since I didnt buy it and
dont live there I'm not sure - had a quick look but only a standard aerial
socket

OK. That appears to just have a standard-def Freeview tuner, according to
a quick Google, so it probably is picking up a leaked Freeview signal from
a close transmitter.

"Woody" wrote:

FTA satellite is Freesat - the Sky version is called
Freesat-from-Sky.

No. "Freesat" is essentially an EPG, provided by a joint BBC and ITV
venture. My TV's satellite receiver can't get that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freesat

Ghostrecon wrote:
I understood that you need a freesat STB to get tv from the 3rd LNB (first
2 used for sky plus)of a sky dish? has something changed? - My ex had
someone run a coax from the 3rd lnb to give my daughter tv in her bedroom -
the old freesat box they had didnt work so the guy used a fscrew-aerial
adaptor and plugged into the aerial socket of a Logik freeview tv and got a
picture straight away - no further investigations done - is this possible
?? if so how ?


puzzled



How do you know he made a connection to the LNB?

Bill