Quote: Originally posted by clanjones on 16/11/2009
you can use the sky abroad but you need a minimum 60cm dish to get the footprint... getting your local news and weather must be a boon whilst in portugal spain italy ect ..lol
A 60cm dish will work in Northern Spain but doubtful if it will work well on the Costa's and certainly not big enough for Portugal , our 85 cm Oyster self seeking struggled to pick up the North Beam (BBC + ITV )in some areas of southern Spain and had to set SKY box to default to South Beam settings to enable us to get some SKY channels although it worked ok on the Algarve on all channels .
In Southern Spain you really need a 1 metre dish or bigger
With regard to Sky 'not liking it' if you take your box away, they only normally check if you have multiroom. This is to avoid people using a 'multiroom' box at a different address.
hi i use a sattelite dish on a tripod i fed the cable in to
the caravan from the outside locker in to the under bed lockers,and up to the sattelite reciever next to the television every thing works fine once the dish is locked on to the sattelite
Quote: Originally posted by Surfer01 on 16/11/2009
Quote: Originally posted by bowler70 on 16/11/2009
You cannot change your Sky card between different Skybox's without contacting Sky. That is a real pain. If you want ALL the channels you get at home then take the Skybox from home, along with the Sky card and Remote. You could get a £20 card from Sky to use in your old Sky+ which will give you the Freeview channels or maybe the Freesat channels.
Mostly incorrect. You only need to contact `Sky if you want to watch premium channels. Otherwise just take your Sky card from home and insert it in the other digibox to watch normal channels like, Sky 1, Sci-fi etc. You can even watch a number of movies free on the movie channels withour subscription, i.e True movies, 24 movies etc.
Must agree the sky installer said its fine but to be careful putting it in and out as this can wear the card out and it would be difficult to explain to sky why it had been worn out ( mines a new card ! ) as i ts just usually left there infact I was questioning the installer and it was his idea as we have a seasonal pitch.
I bought a sat finder from B&Q cheapest I could find around for under £10 and was easy to use and found signal right away. I had been trying for days to find a signal without one- wounld do that again.
Quote: Originally posted by maisy-mai on 19/11/2009
Quote: Originally posted by Surfer01 on 16/11/2009
Quote: Originally posted by bowler70 on 16/11/2009
You cannot change your Sky card between different Skybox's without contacting Sky. That is a real pain. If you want ALL the channels you get at home then take the Skybox from home, along with the Sky card and Remote. You could get a £20 card from Sky to use in your old Sky+ which will give you the Freeview channels or maybe the Freesat channels.
Mostly incorrect. You only need to contact `Sky if you want to watch premium channels. Otherwise just take your Sky card from home and insert it in the other digibox to watch normal channels like, Sky 1, Sci-fi etc. You can even watch a number of movies free on the movie channels withour subscription, i.e True movies, 24 movies etc.
Must agree the sky installer said its fine but to be careful putting it in and out as this can wear the card out and it would be difficult to explain to sky why it had been worn out ( mines a new card ! ) as i ts just usually left there infact I was questioning the installer and it was his idea as we have a seasonal pitch.
I bought a sat finder from B&Q cheapest I could find around for under £10 and was easy to use and found signal right away. I had been trying for days to find a signal without one- wounld do that again.
The Sky engineer has told you a load of old rubbish here! The sky Card is as durable as any Bank or Credit card as its the same type of chipped card but used for an entirely different purpose.
I use 2 non sky box's for my sky subscription, one in the house, one in the van and swap the card on a regular basis.
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Topic: Regarding Excisiting Sky Card
