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Sky Q dish for free to air?

  • 27-02-2018 8:18pm
    #1
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭


    I have had Sky Q for a year, it was essentially free with the broadband and I won’t be renewing it. I have an LG TV with a built in satellite tuner, but as far as I know the LNB on the dish won’t work with this?
    Is there a direct swap LNB I can use, or am I right in thinking it won’t work? I’ve plugged the feed into the tv and it doesn’t pick anything up.


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  • #2
    Ten Pin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,868 ✭✭✭Ten Pin


    The Sky Q LNB will only work with Sky Q (unless it's a hybrid LNB)
    If you have a hybrid LNB then you can use the legacy ports.
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    If it's a Sky Q LNB (left in the pic above) then you need to replace it with a universal quad LNB like this.

    There is also an LNB with an extra input for a UHF aerial that can be split again at the TV.


  • #3
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Thanks - The current one is the same as the one on the left, the TV only takes one cable for sat, so would this do? http://www.freetv.ie/single-lnb/


  • #4
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Thanks, the TV only takes one input for sat. Would one of these do the trick too!
    http://www.freetv.ie/single-lnb/


    (Typed all of this already but post not appearing, I assume there will be a duplicate post in a while)


  • #5
    Ten Pin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,868 ✭✭✭Ten Pin


    It will, as long as you never need another TV connected or to record another satellite channel.


  • #6
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,520 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Ok good stuff, there’s actually a place near work that does satellite stuff, thanks for the heads up. Are LNBs pretty universal, as in if they don’t have one that clips on do they clamp on? Seems to be a half ring holding the LNB on?


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  • #7
    Ten Pin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,868 ✭✭✭Ten Pin


    They're pretty much a standard fitting. Take a pic, if you can, to compare with the new one before buying.


  • #8
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Are LNBs pretty universal, as in if they don’t have one that clips on do they clamp on? Seems to be a half ring holding the LNB on?
    If your Sky dish was installed post 2009 and had a SkyQ LNB fitted then any of the Sky LNBs here will be a straight swap.


  • #9
    Antenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,360 ✭✭✭Antenna


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    I have had Sky Q for a year, it was essentially free with the broadband and I won’t be renewing it. I have an LG TV with a built in satellite tuner, but as far as I know the LNB on the dish won’t work with this?
    Is there a direct swap LNB I can use, or am I right in thinking it won’t work? I’ve plugged the feed into the tv and it doesn’t pick anything up.

    Try connecting the LG TV sat input to the Sky Q LNB and see what happens?
    It might work

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057666770


  • #10
    The Cush
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    Antenna wrote: »
    Try connecting the LG TV sat input to the Sky Q LNB and see what happens?
    It might work

    In post #3 above the OP says he has the standard SkyQ wideband LNB and in post #1 has already tested the LNB with the TV and doesn't work.


  • #11
    Kurn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 878 ✭✭✭Kurn


    Just curious, I've not looked at my dish but have SKY Q - I connected by LG TV to the sat cable and did a scan.

    It came back with a handful of channels - mostly rubbish ones. Is this what happens when you have the SKY Q LNB? Or should it not work at all?

    Thanks


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  • #12
    The Cush
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    Kurn wrote: »
    It came back with a handful of channels - mostly rubbish ones. Is this what happens when you have the SKY Q LNB? Or should it not work at all?

    One cable, one polarisation, and then just a small portion of that that band.


  • #13
    Kurn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 878 ✭✭✭Kurn


    The Cush wrote: »
    One cable, one polarisation, and then just a small portion of that that band.

    I don't understand. (sorry!) So I probably have the SKY Q LNB? - I can look tonight anyway - just curious as it picked up a few channels.


  • #14
    Ten Pin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,868 ✭✭✭Ten Pin


    I don't understand. (sorry!) So I probably have the SKY Q LNB? - I can look tonight anyway - just curious as it picked up a few channels.

    It's like an old dial tuner radio with the dial seized and stuck on one frequency. So you will only get what's on that one frequency. With digital signals there would be a few channels on each frequency and that's all your TV can tune from the Sky Q LNB. It's because Sky Q is a closed system that only their hardware can fully utilise.
    Unless you knew about it and requested it at time of install, it's unlikely that you have a hybrid LNB.

    Edit: See here for an explanation of Sky Q frequencies.
    A non Sky Q tuner will only see half of the frequencies from the Sky Q LNB but with only one cable then it would be a quarter (not quadrant) of them. If you plug in the second cable from the Sky Q LNB then you should get a different quarter of frequencies. Whether or not they are encrypted is another question, could you watch any of the channels that the TV tuned in to?


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