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What's my satellite dish

  • 03-12-2014 11:17pm
    #1
    fullerand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭


    Hi there,

    I'm moving house soon to a house that has a dish attached to it - see the pic attached to the thread.

    Can you tell from looking at it if it's a dish I could use to get Free-To-Air channels or similar?

    In case it's not obvious from above, I'm pretty new to satellite TV so generally clueless about it.

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,848 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    That's a rusty old Sky dish, provided everything's in working order you'll get the FTA/Freesat channels

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free-to-air_channels_at_28%C2%B0E
    http://www.tvchannellists.com/List_of_channels_on_Freesat_(UK)


  • #3
    homer911
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭homer911


    It looks like a quad LNB on the arm with 4 cables attached - this could be driving between 2 and 4 TV socket points. Where you have two live sockets in a room you can use a PVR (personal video recorder) to watch one channel while recording another. This will determine what sort of satellite box you should be considering.

    (Assuming it works of course - if it doesnt you can buy a new dish and quad LNB on ebay, from an Irish supplier for as little as 23.99 incl postage)


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