TFC & Freesat

[hawk]

i have freesat and i just hooked it to sky dish when you put yours to dish just do a new install it will tell you how good the signal is if its anywere near it will be ok like mine also nomater were its pointing it will get a singal mine can be tuned into any sat ie freebird astra and others

[Terpe]

i have freesat and i just hooked it to sky dish when you put yours to dish just do a new install it will tell you how good the signal is if its anywere near it will be ok like mine also nomater were its pointing it will get a singal mine can be tuned into any sat ie freebird astra and others

As said before, that works because both Sky and Freesat are transmitted from the same satellite.
TFC is transmitted from a completely different sateliite at a completley different location.

Andy, my simple testing this morning switching between two dishes and two boxes did not work out in my area. I did not make any adjustments to the set up of either dish.
I think the suggestion made by Imagine may offer a good solution.
It's no too expensive to add an additional independently adjustable LNB and have a specialist to set them up for you. Looking at my dishes and just "by eye" the actual spread between the two satellites looks like it's quite large. In which case the size of the dish will play a key part. You may need a much bigger dish.

Bottom line I think is to ask an installer to see what can be done with your existing arrangement (if anything) or just go for a new dish installation for Freesat.

[Andy]

Many thanks for your help & comments. We haven't got Sky only a TFC satellite dish. I think we'll have to get a survey done &/or advice from an installer.

[Dedworth]

Many thanks for your help & comments. We haven't got Sky only a TFC satellite dish. I think we'll have to get a survey done &/or advice from an installer.

I'd look around the area for a Sky Van parked up then offer the guy some folding stuff rather than go through official channels