Annual question...... German Eurosport

[Rs2oo]

Just read a couple of old threads and wondered if anything has changed and your thoughts please on what's best.

We have an 80cm x 60cm oval dish and LMB
A Sky box WITHOUT a card
A Freesat box
A freeview box

We would like to use the Sky box but not sure if it will work without a card. What's the verdict ?

Edited by Rs2oo on Wednesday 25th May 09:47

[Rs2oo]

gman2207 said:

Copied from Beermountain:

"The German channels are at 19.2 E. A uk sky box will not work for these, as sky boxes software is locked down pretty tight. A generic none sky box should, and some freesat boxes. Eurosport is available here in German for free."

We use one of these, worked great last year: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Openbox-V8S-Digital-TV-S...

So this should be compatible with our 18cm dish and LMB ?

[Rs2oo]

DeanoX said:

Do you mean 18cm for the dish....thats very small ?

Ha ! yes sorry.... 80cm dish

[Rs2oo]

gman2207 said:

Copied from Beermountain:

"The German channels are at 19.2 E. A uk sky box will not work for these, as sky boxes software is locked down pretty tight. A generic none sky box should, and some freesat boxes. Eurosport is available here in German for free."

We use one of these, worked great last year: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Openbox-V8S-Digital-TV-S...

This does look good but I just rang the shop who sell this and he reckons the dish I have is not compatible !!! oval dish 80cm x 60cm. Looks like ive bought the wrong friggin dish !

[Rs2oo]

gman2207 said:

wtf! a dish is a dish. If it has a connector like this it'll work: http://nicab.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/coax...

This is the dish i have: http://www.techdna.co.uk/ross-sd-satellite-kit.htm...

Edited by gman2207 on Tuesday 24th May 17:50

Rang another company selling the Openbox and they only work with a Sky Dish and cable.

[Rs2oo]

gman2207 said:

I'm living proof they don't, unless i imagined watching German Eurosport outside my tent last year ;-)

I don't understand the difference TBH. Both companies told me the Openbox will only work with a SKY Dish. The one I have is oval like the photo here. What type / shape / size dish did you use please ?

[Rs2oo]

JamesBryan88 said:

We used a freesat box last year and had a bit of a mare trying to find the satellite.

Eventually we found it using a Sky box to find the Sky satellite, then switched over to the freesat box and moved the dish right a bit then up a bit.

Can you get the signal with the Sky box WITHOUT a Sky card ?

[Rs2oo]

Tried to get a signal yesterday with a 80cm x 60cm dish, a Sky HD box without a card and a FreeSat box. Got fk-all. We will take it all including a satellite finder thing to LMS and hope for the best. We will be on the Houx so if you see someone smashing up a sky box, its us.