Sky box no card - advice please
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Anyone able to give us advice please.
We have use of a good tried and tested satellite dish. We have a 6/7/8 year old sky box but no card. Silly question but how can we get British Eurosport. We are sharing the dish/LMB so cant move it to a foreign signal like German Eurosport for-instance. I presume we need a card ? or is there another way to get it ?
We have use of a good tried and tested satellite dish. We have a 6/7/8 year old sky box but no card. Silly question but how can we get British Eurosport. We are sharing the dish/LMB so cant move it to a foreign signal like German Eurosport for-instance. I presume we need a card ? or is there another way to get it ?
just a thought, when you say sharing the dish, do you mean you are connecting a box to a dish / LNB that somebody else is using to run their box?
If so, why not run an RF (aerial lead) out of that box the "old school" way, and tune your analogue tuner in your TV to receive the RF signal from that box. That way, assuming they are watching Eurosport, you can too. And you wont even need a sky box or connection to the dish
or have I misunderstood?
If so, why not run an RF (aerial lead) out of that box the "old school" way, and tune your analogue tuner in your TV to receive the RF signal from that box. That way, assuming they are watching Eurosport, you can too. And you wont even need a sky box or connection to the dish
or have I misunderstood?
garethdphillips said:
just a thought, when you say sharing the dish, do you mean you are connecting a box to a dish / LNB that somebody else is using to run their box?
If so, why not run an RF (aerial lead) out of that box the "old school" way, and tune your analogue tuner in your TV to receive the RF signal from that box. That way, assuming they are watching Eurosport, you can too. And you wont even need a sky box or connection to the dish
or have I misunderstood?
We are in a large 20 + group spread over about 16 pitches. We won't all be together all the time so we have one dish with a twin port LNB. We want to plug our box into the second LNB port and use our own sky box. This it appears we can't do So, you're saying we run an old analogue aerial from the main sky box straight into the back of our TV then tune it in ?If so, why not run an RF (aerial lead) out of that box the "old school" way, and tune your analogue tuner in your TV to receive the RF signal from that box. That way, assuming they are watching Eurosport, you can too. And you wont even need a sky box or connection to the dish
or have I misunderstood?
Yes, I was looking at this tonight trying to set up picture in picture. If you take an RF out from someone elses sky box you can watch what they're watching with their sky card on your tv by doing a channel scan on your tv. If TV is too new (i.e. has digital tuner) connect the RF lead through an old VHS/DVD player with an old skool tuner 
Rs2oo said:
Sounds like we are sorted ! Thanks all.
It's how everybody used to watch Sky in a bedroom without multiroom (many still do) - just so long as the Sky box has an RF output. I am sure they all do, apart from the little multiroom boxes. All you need is 50m of tv coax (maybe less!), and a coupler / joiner which will allow you to convert one end to female. 99p for the coupler. This is assuming you buy a standard lead with male on each end (the RF out on the sky boxes is also male)
We are doing this at Le Mans to run two TV's, one in the caravan and one in the awning. Saves powering two Sky boxes, and we only have one card anyhow.
Edited by garethdphillips on Thursday 5th June 08:52
garethdphillips said:
It's how everybody used to watch Sky in a bedroom without multiroom (many still do) - just so long as the Sky box has an RF output. I am sure they all do, apart from the little multiroom boxes.
All you need is 50m of tv coax (maybe less!), and a coupler / joiner which will allow you to convert one end to female. 99p for the coupler. This is assuming you buy a standard lead with male on each end (the RF out on the sky boxes is also male)
We are doing this at Le Mans to run two TV's, one in the caravan and one in the awning. Saves powering two Sky boxes, and we only have one card anyhow.
There was a time before multiroom?? All you need is 50m of tv coax (maybe less!), and a coupler / joiner which will allow you to convert one end to female. 99p for the coupler. This is assuming you buy a standard lead with male on each end (the RF out on the sky boxes is also male)
We are doing this at Le Mans to run two TV's, one in the caravan and one in the awning. Saves powering two Sky boxes, and we only have one card anyhow.
Edited by garethdphillips on Thursday 5th June 08:52
It's how we still shunt the Sky channels around our house, and recently I had to give the kids a new TV i purchased that was only Digital and did not have an Analogue Tuner !
As my wife wanted access to Sky in the new 40" LCD screen that she suggested we put in the Kitchen. She never really thought I would do it that quickly !
So make sure if you go down this route your TV has an analogue tuner too.
As my wife wanted access to Sky in the new 40" LCD screen that she suggested we put in the Kitchen. She never really thought I would do it that quickly !
So make sure if you go down this route your TV has an analogue tuner too.
Or if you have plenty of electric you could always plug a video sender in the spare scart out of the skybox with card and transmit the signal over to your pitch. That's how my son gets sky in his bedroom and new digital ones have a perfect picture! I think there's not a limit to how many receivers you can have so the sky box would kind of act like a mini wifi spot for TV.
Search Nikkai 5.8ghz in Maplins £50-£60 for sender & receiver. Extra receivers £25. You might find them cheaper elsewhere but 5.8ghz ones are better and have a better range.
Not as cheap as an RF lead but much better quality and no leads to trip over. Apparently 5.8ghz ones have a range of up to 80m.
Search Nikkai 5.8ghz in Maplins £50-£60 for sender & receiver. Extra receivers £25. You might find them cheaper elsewhere but 5.8ghz ones are better and have a better range.
Not as cheap as an RF lead but much better quality and no leads to trip over. Apparently 5.8ghz ones have a range of up to 80m.
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