Sky cable as aerial?

LancsCate

Hi everyone,

I sold my house late last year and lodged with friends while my purchase completed, this is due to happen on Friday.

When I closed the old house up, I was just out of contract with Sky tv so I cancelled it. I’ve not missed it a bit, so thought I’d save the money and not bother having it installed again. There are Sky cables at the house, and I have my old sky box. While I understand that the sky functionality, record etc, won’t work, does anyone know if I’ll be able to use this for freeview channel access?

Or, could I use the sky cables into my tv as an aerial?

Thanks in advance for any advice given! Happy Tuesday!

brewerdave

If you have a dish as well as cables ,then ,yes, you can use the Sky box for Feesat from Sky channel selection. No use as an aerial substitute for TV however.:)

LancsCate

Thanks Dave! I’m 99% certain there’s a sky dish there so that’ll sort me nicely. I probably got my terminology mixed up with aerials/dishes/cables :-)

J_B

brewerdave wrote: »

If you have a dish as well as cables ,then ,yes, you can use the Sky box for Feesat from Sky channel selection.

https://www.sky.com/shop/freesat/home/


Have your own equipment? All you need is a viewing card for a one-off payment of £25.

almillar

You're right, no recording unless you pay Sky monthly. If you want to record, and optionally some smartness, get a Freesat recorder, or Freetime recorder. They use the same cables, and same dish, pointed in the same direction, as a Sky HD box. Sky Q uses a different LNB (the bit in the middle of the dish).

onomatopoeia99

J_B wrote: »

https://www.sky.com/shop/freesat/home/


Have your own equipment? All you need is a viewing card for a one-off payment of £25.

If a previous subscriber, the OP should still have a viewing card.

[Deleted User]

J_B wrote: »

https://www.sky.com/shop/freesat/home/

Have your own equipment? All you need is a viewing card for a one-off payment of £25.

Not true really as that page is out of date (wilfully so?) so save yourself £25.

Channel 4 HD and Channel 5 require a viewing card.

Both channel 4 HD and 5 HD don't require a card in the box (I've just double checked).

The following link shows all channels on the Sky platform. The Free-to-air channels don't need a card, the Free-to-view channels don't require a subscription but do need the card in the box, there's very few of those.

https://www.tvchannellists.com/List_of_channels_on_Sky_(UK_and_Ireland)

tempus_fugit

Colin_Maybe wrote: »

Not true really as that page is out of date (wilfully so?) so save yourself £25.



Both channel 4 HD and 5 HD don't require a card in the box (I've just double checked).

The following link shows all channels on the Sky platform. The Free-to-air channels don't need a card, the Free-to-view channels don't require a subscription but do need the card in the box, there's very few of those.

https://www.tvchannellists.com/List_of_channels_on_Sky_(UK_and_Ireland)

"There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, or search the related logs, but you do not have permission to create this page."

J_B

tempus_fugit wrote: »

"There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, or search the related logs, but you do not have permission to create this page."

Same for me ...

[Deleted User]

Colin_Maybe wrote: »

The following link shows all channels on the Sky platform. The Free-to-air channels don't need a card, the Free-to-view channels don't require a subscription but do need the card in the box, there's very few of those.

https://www.tvchannellists.com/List_of_channels_on_Sky_(UK_and_Ireland)

tempus_fugit wrote: »

"There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, or search the related logs, but you do not have permission to create this page."

That's a weird website

Go down to the UK and click on 'Sky' and it takes you to the exact same link I gave.

https://www.tvchannellists.com/Main_Page

knightstyle

If you do want to record on your Sky+ box you can subscribe to freesat from Sky for £10 a month.