Skybox help?

[Santz92]

Hey !

New to this so please forgive me if I ask a stupid question.

do I need a satellite to view channels on my skybox f5? Because I don't have a satellite in my house...all I have is a sky box with only the free view channels and on my roof I have an antenna for the picture quality.

thanks in advance

[P&D]

If you consider this is a satellite forum you have asked the question in the easy answer = yes

[Santz92]

Thanks! how can I go about getting myself a satellite ?

[DW190]

Thanks! how can I go about getting myself a satellite ?

About ?25.00 on the bay with all the fittings you need.

[Nobby Nutz]

Think we may have mis-interpreted your question.

Can you clarify you have a Skybox F5 and you are receiving Free To Air Channels is this correct ?

[Santz92]

Sorry no, I have a normal standard sky tv box showing free view. I have just bought a skybox f5 waiting to be delivered. I have no satellite dish But I have an antenna on roof.

In regards to me buying and installing a satellite.... Which direction would I need it to look at?

Thanks

[redralph]

Sorry no, I have a normal standard sky tv box showing free view. I have just bought a skybox f5 waiting to be delivered. I have no satellite dish But I have an antenna on roof.

In regards to me buying and installing a satellite.... Which direction would I need it to look at?

Thanks

Astra 28.2

[Nobby Nutz]

You maybe better getting someone to install it for you

I would try 28.2 East

[Hadron]

Sorry no, I have a normal standard sky tv box showing free view. I have just bought a skybox f5 waiting to be delivered. I have no satellite dish But I have an antenna on roof.

In regards to me buying and installing a satellite.... Which direction would I need it to look at?

Thanks

I still don't understand.

If you are watching channels through a "normal standard" Sky box, then you must already have a satellite dish.

If you are using a terrestrial aerial, then it won't work with a Sky box.

[Santz92]

I have a normal standard sky box with the free to air channels.

[P&D]

I have a normal standard sky box with the free to air channels.

Is this the box you have ????



If so you have a dish on the roof but most prob a shared one
so if you get a openbox/skybox f5 then yes it will work
but you may have a problem with the signal & need the signal boost fix

Also you need more than just the box & the channel list to get your channels

But this we cannot help with

[Santz92]

Thanks for response, that is not the one I have. I have the original standard sky box (link is below with pic)

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/attachments/sky-sky-tv/1143d1231363872-sky-dv3-box-instruction-manual-32970737__1231324038__1__1-e5a0f6a61464f7694b97dd8aa9fe130c___big__.jpg

thanks

[boobishabang]

Thanks for response, that is not the one I have. I have the original standard sky box (link is below with pic)

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/attachments/sky-sky-tv/1143d1231363872-sky-dv3-box-instruction-manual-32970737__1231324038__1__1-e5a0f6a61464f7694b97dd8aa9fe130c___big__.jpg

thanks

Any Sly box such as that in the picture would need an Lnb\dish feed to work so you should be fine with the F5

[DW190]

Thanks for response, that is not the one I have. I have the original standard sky box (link is below with pic)

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/attachments/sky-sky-tv/1143d1231363872-sky-dv3-box-instruction-manual-32970737__1231324038__1__1-e5a0f6a61464f7694b97dd8aa9fe130c___big__.jpg

thanks

So you have a dishand if that box is working the dish will be fine for the F5

[Santz92]

Just spoke to a sky advisor he said to me...

'Then there is a free to air communal dish from where you get a dish input cable running into your house which enables you to view the free to air channels.'

would the Skybox still work??