Anybody bought and installed Sky HD themselves.

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It's dead easy if you have line of view to your TV from the dish. Just look around you for other sky installs for a general idea of what direction to point it in, then just twist and turn the LNB whilst looking at the TV to see when the signal improves. Change one direction at a time once you've got a signal. You need to set elevation (angle of the dish) and the LNB will have a slight angle to (rotate it left or right). Running a cable isn't hard either, just make sure that you feed the cable into the house with a curve... so you dont suffer water ingress along the cable.

You'll ideally need what's commonly known as 'shotgun' cable. It's both cores fixed together for neatness.

There is a guy on eBay who seems local to me who seems to know out HD boxes and Plus boxes - Dunno where they come from.

Have you phoned Sky and asked for a deal? They previously offered it to me for

Signal strength meters look to be available on Ebay for a few quid if you don't have line of sight from the dish to the TV

so in theory, already having Plus with the dual LNB and coax etc installed, you could buy an ebay hd box and then just buy a sky hd subscription?

so in theory, already having Plus with the dual LNB and coax etc installed, you could buy an ebay hd box and then just buy a sky hd subscription?

Bingo :P

Signal strength meters look to be available on Ebay for a few quid if you don't have line of sight from the dish to the TV

You have to be careful. Sky broadcast on Astra 2 and EuroBird 1 satellites which are exclusively transmitting in DVB. The cheap analogue satellite finders cannot pick these up

Q, have you actually done finding a digital channel on satellite? With analogue, it's dead easy as you can see the picture come and go in realtime. With DVB, I would think it's a bit trickier, but I haven't tried myself so cannot speak from experience

Sure have Xav. I have 4 satellite receivers all feed (fed?) from one dish and two dual LNB's. 2 of them are Sky receivers (Freesat), and 1 of them is a Canal+ receiver (missus Q wants her soaps ) and 1 of them is a Dreambox for some sat hacking

When I installed them I just looked at where the Sky dishes around me were pointing, and then took it from there. Yes, it may take a while, but it's either your unpaid time, or a Sky engineers paid time

as a general 'rule of thumb'... if you can *find* the analogue signal... then whilst 'looking' at the dish, its about a centimetre down, and two to your right shoulder.. but if you have a plus box already, then its just a box swap over then get Sky to 'pair' the card to the box...

I've just recently ordered Sky HD for

Installed a couple of sky systems on caravan verandas using just line of site, 10 minute job

Sky have an offer on at present, as they are desparate to sell HD.

My letter is offering SkyHD for

Thanks folks, called Sky to see what offers they have on Sky HD and both times they tell me there is nothing. I even tried saying a friend got a