Sky Dish

[steelknee]

Can I split the cable that comes from my sky dish so that it can serve two sky boxes....if yes what bits & pieces do I need ~ thanks in anticipation (steelkneesteve)

[darthtrick]

It is possible, but in order to watch different channels on the other box you would need a separate SKY viewing card.

You would also need a dual LNB for your dish in order to receive two separate signals. Look here:

http://www.tech-faq.com/dual-lnb.shtml

Its not a particularly difficult job, apart from the LNB you can get coax cable and connectors from Maplin for very little money, its just the viewing card that would be the problem because without it you will only be able to receive the free-to-air channels (BBC etc.)

Hope this helps.

[steelknee]

Most comprehensive answer - thanks ~ however I want to have very smalll portable tv in my very very small kitchen for when I'm cooking etc and propose swapping the card I have from 1 box to the other as needed. I know I can do it another simpler way but I hate cables which would run from tv in lounge to tv in kitchen and cannot afford the alternative system of senders/receivers. thanks again - Steve

[knobbynonuts]

You can buy for relativly cheap a video sender that you plug into a scart socket on your sky box and that sends a wireless signal to a reciever that plugs into your second tv, also just a point here, you say you do not want to run a coaxel lead to the tv in your kitchen but if you got a second box then you would still have to run a wire to feed that.
Just one more thing to ad here we have just got sky+ and I have bought a great little devise of e bay think it is called a magic eye, I have run a coaxel upstairs and you plug it into this magic eye then to your tv and you can then oprerate your remote to control your box in another room I bought a sky+ remote and the magic eye for �25 and in the shops I have seen them at �25 each so thats half price, and of course an ordinary remote not a sky + one is even cheaper

[knobbynonuts]

and sorry to say this about you darthtrick know where you are comong from about the 2 LNB ees but they both have to be set up in the right aliment (still cant spell that) and you have to have the right equipment to set that up When sky first come I got it and insalled it myself and mved the dish around until I got the best signal just like u used to do with an ariel but sky has changed a bit now even though have left them for over a year now but have just come back to them and realy think that they cant be beaten for value. tv is brill phone is ok as far as I know and 8meg is broadband is wicked but you have to get the sky+ box how the hell that we have ever lived without that b4 I dont know