Satellite - Again Sorry! Omnisat 66cm

[Litespeed]

Ive just bought an Omnisat 66cm kit.

I already have Sky at home (6 years)

If I bought another box from EBAY (approx £50) could I use my home SKY card in it and get all my channels as per home?

If not, why not and what do I have to do to get the channels, without having to take out a new subscription?

Please help?

 

[eriskay]

the simple answer is yes the card from home will work fine plus you get all the home area news programmes where ever you are in the country as card is programmed to your home address. I did the same as you & got a spare box of ebay. Enjoy brian

 

[Litespeed]

Thanks for that, I'm already watching a couple on ebay, now I know it will work I'd better get bidding!

Regards

Simon

 

[sparkes]

Hi

NO, if you are a sky digital customer you have to phone sky and have the card associated to the box.

Easiest thing to do is take the box from home with you as your tour.

Steve

 

[JohnW1]

We use our card in two boxes , one at home and one in the van. Never had any problems.

Nick

 

[Brian-Bear_5094910]

hi Sparkes, I was told this rubbish to by a sky dealer also, I took a chance, got a new sony digibox for home and used my old pace for the van, everything works fine with the main home card. Has anyone had any problems?

 

[eriskay]

Hi Simon stand by my answer have used same card for over a year now no problems . brian

 

[Paul_5077620]

Hi

I only use the receiver in my caravan and just had to ring and get the Freesat from Sky card reactivated as some channels had dissapeared and were replaced with a message to call Sky.

The guy at Sky reckons that if the box isn't used regularly they switch the card off.

HTH

Paul

 

[Litespeed]

Hi

I only use the receiver in my caravan and just had to ring and get the Freesat from Sky card reactivated as some channels had dissapeared and were replaced with a message to call Sky.

The guy at Sky reckons that if the box isn't used regularly they switch the card off.

HTH

Paul

How can they tell if the card is being used. I havnt had the telephone line plugged in for about 4 years now?

 

[MikeAce]

Hi

I only use the receiver in my caravan and just had to ring and get the Freesat from Sky card reactivated as some channels had dissapeared and were replaced with a message to call Sky.

The guy at Sky reckons that if the box isn't used regularly they switch the card off.

HTH

Paul

i simply leave a full set of cables and a spare remote etc in the caravan, then when the wife and i load the car i put in our sky box from home. no need to go untangling cables this way, just pull it forward and unplug all the leads.

this doesnt work with the Amstrad boxes though as they have a hard wired power lead.

 

[MikeAce]

I simply leave a full set of cables and a spare remote etc in the caravan, then when the wife and i load the car i put in our sky box from home. no need to go untangling cables this way, just pull it forward and unplug all the leads.

this doesnt work with the Amstrad boxes though as they have a hard wired power lead.