Using 2 Dishes

Skyranger · 04-05-2011, 14:59

Hello. I'm new here so I'm not sure if I'm in the right section. Anyway, here goes. I have Sky at home but I also have a caravan. My question is twofold. Firstly, is it possible to put another dish at my caravan so I can take my Sky box from home to the caravan so I can watch Sky there? And secondly - Is it legal?

**Chris** · 04-05-2011, 15:06

You can get a dish for your caravan and you can connect your Sky box to it. It is legal so long as you have a TV Licence for your home address. Using your Sky box somewhere other than your home address may technically breach your contract with them but is highly unlikely to result in any bother.

adzii_nufc · 04-05-2011, 15:17

Like above, Its completely possible and simple to do.

Both the Sky box and Sky player are contracted to one home only and this will definitely breach the contract but I doubt they actually try and catch you out.

People use this method to sell on Sky boxes with Sub Active cards in them so I'd still be wary.

Paul · 05-05-2011, 06:02

If within the first 12 months of contact for the box or if you are on multi-room they will figure it out very quickly as that is when the box is reporting back the most often to the Sky servers.

Skyranger · 05-05-2011, 14:31

Thanks guys. Very helpful. Re your post, Paul. How will Sky know where the box is. I assume that both dishes will be receiving signals from the same satellite and I don't have my box linked up to the telephone at home. Regarding you Adzii. Nice to know some people still support a proper football team.

**Chris** · 05-05-2011, 19:16

I don't think they can tell where you are via the phone line because they can't compel you to have caller ID enabled on your line. All the box's phone-home function does is confirm that the box is connected to the phone line, which always used to be the condition on which they gave you a free or subsidised dish and box.

Skyranger · 06-05-2011, 14:10

Thanks guys. This begs the question. Will I have to get an expert to fit, set up and direct the dish or is there some sort of procedure a luddite like me can follow to get things swinging? Will it be a case of trial and error catching the satellite? By the way my wife cannot see a problem with me missing footy on the box.... as long as she can see her soaps. 'Sigh' Women, eh.

**Chris** · 06-05-2011, 17:48

You can fit a dish by hand but it is many orders of magnitude harder than setting up a terrestrial aerial.

Invest in a sat finder, especially if you are going to have the repeated task of setting up the dish on your caravan.

**Kymmy** · 06-05-2011, 17:58

They're sold for about £6 delivered on ebay. Worth their weight in gold..

Skyranger · 06-05-2011, 19:08

Thanks again, people. It's for a static caravan so thankfully I'll only have to do it once. So if I take a compass bearing and a rough elevation on my home dish and try and recreate that at the caravan, I should be quite near to the correct setting and at a good starting point for the fine tuning. My caravan is about 65 miles west of where I live so the direction the dish points won't be that different. You've all been very helpful. Thank you. Any other tips for setting up would still be greatly appreciated.

**Kymmy** · 06-05-2011, 19:17

http://www.dishpointer.com/

That site will give you the exact heading, angle and even LNB skew

adzii_nufc · 07-05-2011, 14:10

Please note.. If its a SKY+ Sub you will need to run both cables even if you don't want to record anything whilst there. Otherwise the Box will fail to pick up a signal.

I assume you know the deal with the cables anyway, Pretty simple Install

If you need anything else just let us know

Skyranger · 09-05-2011, 15:45

Dish and satfinder bought on EBay. Just waiting their arrival. Hope it's as easy as you all say. If not.... I'll be back. Thanks again, chaps and chapesses.

**Kymmy** · 09-05-2011, 16:37

Read the ross sat thread in the freesat/freeview section, it's been detailed in that how to set up a dish

**Graham M** · 09-05-2011, 16:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by adzii_nufc

Please note.. If its a SKY+ Sub you will need to run both cables even if you don't want to record anything whilst there. Otherwise the Box will fail to pick up a signal.

I assume you know the deal with the cables anyway, Pretty simple Install

If you need anything else just let us know

A Sky+ box will work fine with just 1 input, recordings will just fail