4X4BOB

Can you get Sky in Europe?

We are moving to Austria next May, To here www.austria-apartments.com
and want to know if we can take our Sky systems over there and still get the Sky broadcast?
Is it possible or would we have to use a UK address for the subs?
We have both a normal Sky digi box and a SKY+ box and would miss them if we were without them.

Any ideas?

Bob

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Sky will only allow subscribers with a UK address. There are ways round this (use a friends address or a thrid party company, I think one is called skycards)

2nd problem is reception.

Sky use 3 transponders on the sattelite transmitter IIRC, two will just about cover Europe, but the one only covers the UK.

What this means, is that you'll need a much larger dish than what you would use in the UK, also only certain makes of digiboxes of recommended. And you may not be able to recieve all the channels, depending on which transponder they are transmitted on.

I'm not sure what sized dish you will need, but it can be anything up to 2.4metres for southern spain and even bigger for greek countries

camk

you can get sky in europe. You need to bring the box and card with you and just get the dish on the house aligned to the sky satellite, its not difficult for a local TV guy. I'm in Southern Germany and use a normal sized 45cm dish

DarkForce

I can back up everything that is said here. My friend has an apartment in Brussels as well as here and he just takes his subscriber card in between the two digiboxes. He uses a slighly bigger dish and it works perfectly. I believe with a big enough dish you can pick up the signal in southern Spain!

One thing though is that if you don't use the card with its original digibox, you can't view the Movie channels. All other channels are unaffected.

Chris

4X4BOB

There's a huge dish on the side of the building already which is used for sattelite TV to all the apartments but its not for English SKY.
Think I will try a 2nd similar sized dish for use with my SKY boxes, having the normal SKY digibox in the lounge/bar area for the guests and the SKY+ in our own accomodation.
Anyone got a 2mtr sat dish spare?

Bob

www.austri-apartments.com

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

You might not need a 2metre dish, It depends on the signal strength and what channels you want to recieve. You may only need a 1.2 metre dish or even smaller (and cheaper)

4X4BOB

Cheers,
I'll see whats available when I get out there next May, unless I can get hold of a cheapish one over here first to take with me (taking a lorry load over with us so space not a prob)

Bob


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