Hi,
I live close to the sea and my old Sky dish, which was installed well before we bought the house was very rusty and the cable connections had deteriorated so that the signal was affected in the rain.
We paid a private professional company to replace the dish and cabling last summer and we invested in a Triax DAP 60cm fibreglass dish with a quad digital LNB and a weather proof mounting bracket. We only currently use 2 of the 4 LNB outputs and have no immediate plans to use the other 2. The dish is mounted on the side of a detached house and easily accessible by ladder.
The Triax has a standard 40mm LNB holder whereas the Sky LNBs are a bit smaller (37.3mm?) and come with a connecting arm for quick changing on the Sky mini dish. The Sky LNBs are also for the elliptical dish (feed horn) as opposed for the larger circular dishes.
From what I understand the Sky installers are not permitted to install non-Sky equipment and so even if I provide the right wideband LNB for the Triax dish they will refuse to install it and the Sky Q boxes.
Will they also refuse to install the Sky Q receivers if I have the suitable wideband LNB installed prior to their visit ? I'm more than willing to accept full responsibility for any future issues or failure for the disk, the LNB and the cabling into the house, I just want them to provide the receivers.
Any experience or recommendations to share ?
I live close to the sea and my old Sky dish, which was installed well before we bought the house was very rusty and the cable connections had deteriorated so that the signal was affected in the rain.
We paid a private professional company to replace the dish and cabling last summer and we invested in a Triax DAP 60cm fibreglass dish with a quad digital LNB and a weather proof mounting bracket. We only currently use 2 of the 4 LNB outputs and have no immediate plans to use the other 2. The dish is mounted on the side of a detached house and easily accessible by ladder.
The Triax has a standard 40mm LNB holder whereas the Sky LNBs are a bit smaller (37.3mm?) and come with a connecting arm for quick changing on the Sky mini dish. The Sky LNBs are also for the elliptical dish (feed horn) as opposed for the larger circular dishes.
From what I understand the Sky installers are not permitted to install non-Sky equipment and so even if I provide the right wideband LNB for the Triax dish they will refuse to install it and the Sky Q boxes.
Will they also refuse to install the Sky Q receivers if I have the suitable wideband LNB installed prior to their visit ? I'm more than willing to accept full responsibility for any future issues or failure for the disk, the LNB and the cabling into the house, I just want them to provide the receivers.
Any experience or recommendations to share ?