Use a Sky box without card for freesat?

Hi folks,

Getting a bit cheesed off with less than great reception on freeview using a separate box.

The previous owner of our house had satellite TV - the dish is still there, and the Sky box (Pace 2500S5). Can I just plug it in and use it to receive freesat? There's no card in it and I obviously don't have a subscription (don't want one either!).

Yeah, I know about the twin LNB.

Very confusing about all the different channels on different providers Sky 3 can be quite good...

Hmmmm, no mention of the card that I can see there.

So in theory could I get the card, use it in my sky box for the freesat from sky stuff, then pull the card out and get the normal freesat stuff?

Thanks for all the help guys.

Plugged in the Sky box without a card and seems to work but it just says it can't detect a satellite signal. I guess something's knackered with the dish.