Sky install - cynical or faulty?

Jackofallsorts

We got a sky minidish and one box installed approximately 2 years ago for main sitting room. For the rest of the bedrooms in the house we had analogue cable signal that never had been disconnected from virgin and their predecessors. Now virgin are disconnecting analogue in the area so instead of paying for extra monthly multiroom bills, my plan was to use freesat in the bedrooms from a split dish signal feeding into the skybox and just keep sky in the sitting room.

To get things moving i hooked up the basic revez freesat box from power city. After tuning it in it seems my dish is pointing at eutelsat 28a and not the astra satellite as eutelsat and intersat are all that registers. This means only a small portion of working freesat channels will scan through the box are.

Do sky broadcast signal from both the astra satellite and eutelsat satellites? Or is the dish not correctly picking up a freesat signal (dish too small/wrongly aligned?)?

Is it possible / is it a big job to reposition a dish at the astra satellite so i can maximise free view from astra and also maintain my sky access?

Is this sky being anyway cynical to stop people simply swithing over to freesat once their initial contracts end after getting a free dish installed?

Any help or thoughts would be much appreciated?

Atlantic Dawn

Did you have Sky Q? I know they are setup different to old style Sky digital and won't work the same on Freesat.

KildareP

You can't split the satellite cable to feed multiple tuners.

The box needs it's own dedicated cable to the dish.

dxhound2005

There are three satellites Astra 2E at 28.5 East and 2F and 2G at 28.2. Sky have channels on all three. In practice they are one satellite when doing a scan. Some of the transponders are super strong in Ireland, others are fairly weak.

https://www.lyngsat.com/Astra-2E-2F-2G.html

Jackofallsorts

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Did you have Sky Q? I know they are setup different to old style Sky digital and won't work the same on Freesat.

Not sky q only sky plus hd

The Cush

Jackofallsorts wrote: »

To get things moving i hooked up the basic revez freesat box from power city. After tuning it in it seems my dish is pointing at eutelsat 28a and not the astra satellite as eutelsat and intersat are all that registers. This means only a small portion of working freesat channels will scan through the box are.

Do sky broadcast signal from both the astra satellite and eutelsat satellites? Or is the dish not correctly picking up a freesat signal (dish too small/wrongly aligned?)?

Eutelsat 28A did at one time share the 28°E slot with the Astra satellites and carried Sky/Freesat/FTA channels but following a long dispute Astra and Eutelsat reached agreement in 2014 that Astra would operate alone from the position from mid 2015. That is why older satellite receivers still display Eutelsat in the channel installation setup.

The Cush

Jackofallsorts wrote: »

Not sky q only sky plus hd

There should be 2 spare outputs on the dish LNB for connecting to other receivers.