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Marilyn51

04/5/2010 at 7:42pm
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Hi Folks,

Last weekend hubby set up our new satellite system and has it set on Sky so I have ordered a viewing card in order to get as many channels as possible. The thing is I don't think this will include any sports channels and as this is the main cricket, F1 and also football world cup season we would like to know if there is a satellite that we could get onto that will include a sports channel.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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good evening

problem is to get sports channels via sat.u either have to have sky sports package or espn card.vis freesat box.

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David Klyne

04/5/2010 at 8:27pm
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Surely F1 and the World Cup will be on free channels so there should not be a problem.

David

Marilyn51

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Quote: Originally posted by David Klyne on 04/5/2010

Surely F1 and the World Cup will be on free channels so there should not be a problem.

David

Yes they are but that was only an example. Marilyn

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Take your box from home with you,you can then enjoy the same chanels as at home

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Marilyn51

05/5/2010 at 10:58pm
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Quote: Originally posted by mallett61 on 05/5/2010

Take your box from home with you,you can then enjoy the same chanels as at home

My sky+ box is connected to the telephone system so how do I do that?

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05/5/2010 at 11:00pm
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as above you pay for all the channels so take the box with you unplug and unscrew the LMB cables, you only ned a dish.

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being connected to the telephoned system only means that you can do things like vote for xfactor, buy movies etc. We have never had the phone connected to our sky - disconnected it the minute the installer left (don't tell anyone though, youre not supposed to do this) as we didn't want the kids buying movies/voting etc without our say-so - not that they ever tried as far as I'm aware.

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If you have had the box for more than 12 months then you don't need to keep it connected to the phone line (unless you have multiroom, i.e. more than one registered box in the house)

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with the sky plus you can watch all your recored programs away as well but if you have only a single LMB and cable you may not record programs when watching another in the van, but dose it matter.
have a go the weekend with the box and your own dish at home.

Mrs. Bonce

06/5/2010 at 9:28am
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We are having problems with satellite on site now, OH says that as the new Sky+ box has 2 cables we will need a new different kind of dish, is this the case?

Anne

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Quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Bonce on 06/5/2010

We are having problems with satellite on site now, OH says that as the new Sky+ box has 2 cables we will need a new different kind of dish, is this the case?
Anne

Not a different dish but replace the LNB with a twin LNB (the thing that goes on the end of the satellite dish arm) That way your dish has 2 outputs to connect up to your box. cost about £10.

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Thanks, we have a Maxview dish, do you know where we can buy the LNB? OH seems to think the new connections won't work abroad (don't ask me why), any ideas?

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