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to use a sky box with any dish? I have a spare box but no dish. I was hoping to use my sky card on our travels,is this possible? What sort of equipment,if any would I need to set up,can you do it just using a compass? Thanks kindly,Rossco
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asabrush correct me if im wrong but its the lmb that has to match the box not the dish
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A compass will point you in the right general direction of the satellite - assuming you know where the satellite is. A satellite finder will assist your further.
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to use a sky box with any dish? I have a spare box but no dish. I was hoping to use my sky card on our travels,is this possible? What sort of equipment,if any would I need to set up,can you do it just using a compass? Thanks kindly,Rossco
Yes you can, best buy a dish complete with universal LNB and if you intend to go beyond the south of France, buy the biggest you can carry. You will also need a tripod to mount the dish on.
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Yes you can use Sky abroad with a card. The easiest way to set a sky dish up with a box is explained in the link above, by using the sky system signal test.
However, with a second sky box you may get issues with the card with all the free channels coming up but other channels may result in a message like "wrong Sky card for this digibox".
We have a Maxview Crankup and use this connected to a Dreambox and have to say with the dreambox you can get a signal within seconds. Using this method with the aforementioned sky box and you could be looking at much longer, especialy when abroad.
I have sent you a PM with some other recomendations.
Hope this helps.
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Peedee is quite correct, more or less any dish with a "universal" LNB (most LNBs are universal) will be OK to couple up to a digibox.
On the matter of dish size, a smallish dish will suffice for the UK and near continent, as you get further from the UK you'll progressively need a larger dish and once you get to Southern Spain the signal will become too weak for even a very large dish. Choose a dish size commensurate with your intended travel region, a large dish will take up a lot of room and, contrary to what you may think, the larger the dish, the more difficult it will be to align.
hi gaspode, what do you call a very large dish? i've just returned from costa del sol and the algarve and my oyster 85 cm dish got all my sky and bbcs , itvs etc. had to manually tune it tho to get the bbcs as they are very weak signals. a 1 meter dish is all you need all over spain except in the alicante , benidorm area "black hole" where you need a 2.4 meter dish to get the bbcs and itvs which obviously is way to big to carry in your van!!! all the best seanoo.
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