Damaged satellite dish

[MLH]

Im having some work done on the outside of the house and today discovered that the workers have damaged my satellite dish. I now have no signal what so ever and the little receiver thing pointing to the dish is hanging off.

Its not the end of the world and i am waiting for them to get back to me with a resolution. The only resolution i can see is that the dish is replaced.

This is where my next question comes in. I cancelled my sky ontract a few years back and have had their stty free view channels, which there are not a lot of. So i was wondering is there a dish that i can replace it with that will give me all of the freeview channels (pick tv, dave etc etc)? Im looking to get in a local tv/aerial guy to carry out the work and will be deducting the cost accordingly from their final bill.

[ehonda]

This happened to me, although I'm not sure what knocked the LNB off. Duct tape fixed it.

[MLH]

Is it just a case of duct taping it back into position?

At the moment they seemed to have wrapped it around the arm.

[illmonkey]

The LNB usually has a plastic gromit that holds it to the dish, maybe they've just broken that and can replace it with a nut/bolt?

[MLH]

Ive just gone to have a look and theyve taken the bloody ladder with them for the scaffolding.

I guess it'll have to wait until tomorrow.

[MLH]

I couldnt wait until the morning. All sorted now!

[ross-co]

In answer to the other part of your question, yes you could buy a freesat/freeview/youview HDR.
these work in the same manner as sky (using your dish) but without the monthly subscriptions, i would read up on the difference's between them all before making any purchases to see whats best for you.

A quick Google should help but here:

www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/guides/internet/freevie...

should get your started

[MLH]

Many thanks Ross, i'll have a read through that.

[gpo746]

I don't think DAVE is on freesat ?
Can your tv support freeview if so a tv aerial might add in flexibility