Freesat on sky dish abroad

[eybic]

Hypothetically speaking if someone was living in Europe and had a sky set up (of course in reality such a thing isn't possible) which they had use of for about 6 months a year. For the other 6 months they would like to use freesat but dont really want another dish setting up. Could the sky dish be used to receive a freesat signal without being moved about? I know they would need to get a freesat box.

My concerns are:

Sky sattelite will be in a different position to the freesat one so the dish will need to point in a different direction

Would the freesat signal be received in Europe outside of the UK?

Thank you

[dave0010]

If they can already receive a sky signal from the existing dish then the freesat box just replaces the sky box.

If the dish isn't aligned to atrsa28.2 then it would have to be aligned to this for it to receive the signal.

[eybic]

They can get a sky signal currently and would be using both boxes (seperately of course). Is the sat you mention the same as the sky one? i.e the dish can stay in one place for both sky and freesat signals? A sky box would be borrowed for 6 months of the year and the remaining 6 months would be on the freesat box so having to adjus the dish would be a pain.

Thanks

[Mr AJ]

The UK Freesat channels are broadcast on Astra 28, Same as Sky so you wouldn't have to re-align the dish - Just swap the boxes over.

[dave0010]

eybic said:

They can get a sky signal currently and would be using both boxes (seperately of course). Is the sat you mention the same as the sky one? i.e the dish can stay in one place for both sky and freesat signals? A sky box would be borrowed for 6 months of the year and the remaining 6 months would be on the freesat box so having to adjus the dish would be a pain.

Thanks

All you would have to do is unscrew the coax from the sky box and plug into the freesat box, they both run off the same satellite system.

[eybic]

Lovely. Thanks for your help

[kazste]

Sorry to hijack but my mate has moved to Japan and is missing UK television. Would he be able to get a freesat box and point it at this satellite?

[mcflurry]

kazste said:

Sorry to hijack but my mate has moved to Japan and is missing UK television. Would he be able to get a freesat box and point it at this satellite?

The Astra sat footprint is at http://www.onastra.com/how-to-receive
It's nowhere near Japan though

[Road2Ruin]

kazste said:

Sorry to hijack but my mate has moved to Japan and is missing UK television. Would he be able to get a freesat box and point it at this satellite?

Missing UK TV, is he mad? And sadly no. The satellite is on the other side of the world.

[dave0010]

kazste said:

Sorry to hijack but my mate has moved to Japan and is missing UK television. Would he be able to get a freesat box and point it at this satellite?

why does'nt he just use bbc iplayer and other such on demand services?

[cjs]

dave0010 said:

kazste said:

Sorry to hijack but my mate has moved to Japan and is missing UK television. Would he be able to get a freesat box and point it at this satellite?

why does'nt he just use bbc iplayer and other such on demand services?

Difficult to get outside the UK, you need to go through a proxy server, not always easy.

[karona]

eybic said:

Hypothetically speaking if someone was living in Europe and had a sky set up (of course in reality such a thing isn't possible)

You wanna bet?

Would the freesat signal be received in Europe outside of the UK?

Yes, absolutely. I use a 3 metre dish and a standard freesat box here in the South East of Bulgaria. If you maintain a Sky subscription from a UK address the card works fine in a SKY box out here too.

Thank you

[karona]

cjs said:

dave0010 said:

kazste said:

Sorry to hijack but my mate has moved to Japan and is missing UK television. Would he be able to get a freesat box and point it at this satellite?

why does'nt he just use bbc iplayer and other such on demand services?

Difficult to get outside the UK, you need to go through a proxy server, not always easy.

www.expatshield.com
free VPN, works fine for just about everything, except live Channel 4

[karona]

cjs said:

dave0010 said:

kazste said:

Sorry to hijack but my mate has moved to Japan and is missing UK television. Would he be able to get a freesat box and point it at this satellite?

why does'nt he just use bbc iplayer and other such on demand services?

Difficult to get outside the UK, you need to go through a proxy server, not always easy.

www.expatshield.com
free VPN, works fine for just about everything, except live Channel 4