Can you use a Freesat box with a Sky dish?

Question

Can you use a Freesat box with a Sky dish?

Answer 1

I think you can. The channel decoding is done by the box, not the dish. In fact Sky tell you that you can easily lock on to the 'wrong' satellite when setting up their dish. I would go for it.

Worst scenario is you would have to buy a fairly cheap dish from someone like Maplins. But I still can see no reason why the Sky dish would not be fine.

Answer 2

the sky dish works with the astra satellite which is what sky and freesat signal use as the same.

go and pick uo the sky magazine in the shops because it has all about freesat in there and it says that you can use the sky dish as they are on the same frequency and explains everything there.

Answer 3

if you only want to receive the freesat channels from 28.2 Astra2 then the sky dish is good enough, but the reception quality will depend on how long ago was your sky dish installed. If its a recent install and was working ok with a sky digibox then the new Freesat service boxes you can buy from Argos etc, will work ok.

Answer 4

Yes but the reception is not going to be great.

The Sky dish is deliberately made small and out of mesh so that it can only pick up the channels that Sky want you to see.

For £200 you can get a motorised dish and receiver that will let you access 6,500 channels on 23 satellites from all over Europe and the middle east.

Most importantly you will not have to pay any subscription

Answer 5

Yes it works perfect I connected my Freesat to the same dish as my Sky and get good reception from both including the BBC & ITV HD

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