UK BBC/CH4/CH5 Sky Cards

LegacyUser

Does anyone have any experience of acquiring a UK Sky card to allow access to BBC/CH4/CH5. I know it can be done if you have a friend at a U.K. address willing to send it on.

What I am looking for is the EXACT procedure. i.e. The phone number to ring, what I'll be asked to supply and what I shouldn't divulge.

TIA

SkySter

LegacyUser

I don't know the exact procedure, but you do need to give UK Television Licence number and the serial number on your box, which would enable them to find out the fact that you have a ROI box. I'd say the channels you want will be available in ROI before too long, however.

[This message has been edited by Richard (edited 22-05-2001).]

guimhne

you can get thse without a card as follows

First make sure that your TV is tuned to Sky. Press Services on the remote control
and then select System Set Up
and Add Channels.
The screen will then give you tuning options. Use the keypad and the cursor ( triangular ) buttons to make the screen show:
Frequency - 10.906
Polarity - V
Symbol Rate - 22.0 (or 22000)
FEC - 5/6

Now go to Find Channels
and press Select.
The screen will shortly show you the channels it has found.
Use the yellow button to Store Channels, this puts a small tick against your choice,
then press Select.

When you want to Watch UTV just
press Services
and Other Channels.

The UTV option will appear and you just press Select.

You can also use this procedure to get the extra BBC channels (BBC3 BBC4 and the kids channels)using the settings
Frequency - 10.773
Polarity - H
Symbol Rate - 22.0 (or 22000)
FEC - 5/6

byte

Already a thread on this here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=318569

No need to resurrect a 5 year old thread!