I have sky freeview box connected to sky dish on roof top of 4th floor flat and the signal goes very often even in very clear weather. I tried to cut short lenghth of the dual cox cable to see if that was the cause, but it was not.. I also tried 18DB ariel booster but it also doesn't give much solution..Is there any other way? Someone told me that installing sky dish just outside my ground floor flat will help and it will shorten the dual cox cable and I have open sky outside my flat without any obrstuciton..can you please help?
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First check you have the right ariel on roof or you have a good indoor digital type.
Check you can get a good signal in your area, ask a neighbour perhaps.
Make sure your TV has Freeview receiver built in or capable of accepting HD Top box Freeview.
Tune your device...auto tune or whatever and save the channels to TV memory.
(If you have a Satelite dish you can get Freeview that way but you will need a FreeSat box)...Aim for the Astra 28 degree Sat, you will get stacks of channels and all the Plus+1s and even more stuff from the rest of the world which is good if you're learning Hindi, French, Russian, Chinese etc etc...English even
It's all very easy to get going...
David.
Are you using the same output from the LNB on your sky dish?
ie one cable??.
If you are it will not work you need to use a seperate output,
if you cant do this,you will need to change the LNB to a multi output one.
By the way there is 30 volts present all the time from your receiver to your LNB, that is even while switched off.
Unscrew f connectors from LNB, and rewire to desired location, or tell sky to do it or you'll leave. They will put you through to retentions, but will end up sending someone out to do te job
Firstly, you don't get Freeview through your Sky box. If you are watching Freeview channels then it's from an aerial connection. If you are getting a 'No signal' message on your TV, the first things to check are:
1. Check that you have selected the correct input source on your TV. If you are using a 'co-ax' connection (standard aerial cable) you will have to select this manually from the remote. If you are using a SCART connection, all you need to do is turn the Sky box off and back on - but you've done this already.
2. Check the connection from your Sky box to your TV - disconnect it, check that the cable and connectors aren't damaged then re-connect it.
3. Check the cable between the dish and the Sky box. Unplug this from the Sky box and reconnect it.
4. Check that your viewing card is correctly inserted. This is unlikely to be the problem as it doesn't usually result in a 'no signal' message, but remove it and re-insert it anyway.
Finally, it's very windy tonight and this can affect the Sky signal if your Sky dish isn't properly secured. It's possible that your dish has been moved by the wind and is no longer aligned with the satellite. If none of the above work, you should inspect the dish as soon as conditions are safe enough to do so. If you can move it by hand, it can probably be moved by the wind.
Try these tests and post back and I will try to assist further if the problem has not been resolved.
Regards,
BElectric
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if you have connected your sky box as per instructions, putting the aerial coax to it and a fly lead(as in a male to female coax as used on a vcr to tv) from the output to the tv's aerial input, then disconnect the aerial from the sky box and put it back to the tv. The skybox will weaken and even loose the signal.
If you really want to do this, well then you could use and antenna switcher, a small control box that the Antenna from the dish plugs into it and the Sky Box & Freeview each, plug separately into that box too, and then, you can select, which one the antenna is connected to. (Some even have remotes) OR you could simply "Split" the signal "IN" with an Antenna "Splitter" and run one feed to Sky & the other to Freeview. Now thats all amusing that you can get freeview from that Dish.
In order to get any of the Freesat channels, you need to connect a Satellite dish to your TV. If you have a Sky dish, you simply need to run an extra Cable from the LNB from the dish and connect to your socket on the back of your TV.
In order to get Freeview channels and Analogue channels, you need to connect a aerial to the back of the TV.
There is a menu option for the TV to start straight to the AV input (your Sky HD box). It is Menu > Setup > Other Settings > Power on Preference. Select 'AV' for your TV to start on Sky HD.
Also even if you have your TV to start on TV, when you turn on your Sky HD box, it should automatically switch to the Sky box.
I TAKE IT YOUR WATCHING YOUR SKY BOX OR CABLE ETC THOUGH THIS TV..BUT YOU CANNOT NOT GET FREEVIEW..CHECK YOUR ARIEL PLUG GOING INTO THE BACK OF THE TV, THEN TUNE THE TV IN FOR DTV. NOT CABLE OR SKY ETC THEY WILL NOT NEED TUNED IN..THE MENU FOR DTV..IF THAT DOES NOT WORK..DO ALL THE OTHER TVS WORK OFF THE SAME ARIEL ON THE ROOF TO GET FREEVIEW ???
if you have interference to the south western sky - scaffolding or trees you WILL have problems. You need a clear line of sight to the south western sky. here in new york its 32 degrees up
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