Receiving free to air without satalite dish

oxygen_old

Hey, sorry about the newbie question.

I wanted to get the British free to air channels and buy the Thompson 3rd party PVR for it and stuff. I was fine with this, until I realized the satellite dish would probably be on the front of my house, and not the back. Not even on the chimney on the side of my house, but on the front between the upstairs windows.

Is there a way to set up free to air without using a satellite dish?

watty

No.

The dish will work on back of house using an "S" pole.

von Smallhausen

It is impossible to get FTA without a dish...As Watty said before me the S pole or TK Bracket will work on the back of the house but on the other hand it should go on the chimney if your willing to pay the extra fee for cables etc etc

John mac

you could put it on a pole in the front garden (disguised with shrubbery )

dosnt have to be high 500mm will do as long as the dish can see the satellite.

oxygen_old

John mac wrote: »

you could put it on a pole in the front garden (disguised with shrubbery )

dosnt have to be high 500mm will do as long as the dish can see the satellite.

Cheers guys, Ill have alook into these options. Didnt think of the S pole idea. Or the pole in the front yard

Sam Radford

It can even go in a hole in the ground, provided it still has line of sight.

KeRbDoG

One of these brackets/mounts would prob be ideal for yea

oxygen_old

Thanks. I just had a look at some neighbours dishes, they point east, where I can install a dish on the chimney, not too bad. What I was worried about was self installation. But then I was thinking, if I subsribe to Sky+ HD and stay with them for the year, what equipment do they take back? If they left the dish, I could use that for free to view. Does anyone know what they take back?

andyeire

All the equipment is yours from day one.

You cannot cancel until your contract is up but the dish and box are yours to keep.

watty

However while the Sky+ or SkyHD receive all the free channels, the recording and playback of previous recordings is disabled when you have no subscription.

The LNB has 4 outlets so you can add two more regular receivers or a 2nd Freesat PVR (HD or not).

Tony

oxygen wrote: »

Thanks. I just had a look at some neighbours dishes, they point east,

I think you will find they are pointing just east of south, all TV satellites are above the equator.

oxygen_old

Sweet, you guys know your stuff. Im not sure what a LNB is, but having 4 of them cant hurt. My idea is, I subscribe to sky, they do a free installation for the sky+, not sure about sky HD, put up with it for a year, then after a year buy a new PVR and head onto the free to air. Most of what I was are British and Irish channels (I not RTE's are beaming in digital yet, hopefully in a year they will be).

Unless anyone sees any flaws in my evil plan.

KeRbDoG

oxygen wrote: »

Sweet, you guys know your stuff. Im not sure what a LNB is, but having 4 of them cant hurt. My idea is, I subscribe to sky, they do a free installation for the sky+, not sure about sky HD, put up with it for a year, then after a year buy a new PVR and head onto the free to air. Most of what I was are British and Irish channels (I not RTE's are beaming in digital yet, hopefully in a year they will be).

Unless anyone sees any flaws in my evil plan.

Don't expect RTE1/2 TV3/TG4 being FTA on satellite anytime soon - ie. prob never, but they will be on DVB-T

watty

You can keep the existing Sky+ box as a non-PVR for a second room. It will get all the free UK channels even after you cancel.

You can add a UK Freesat PVR (HD or not) at same time as Sky+ or SkyHD is installed. Cheaper then to pay the installer to run the two extra coax cables from dish than later.