Running New Cable from Sky Dish

Seb101 · 1 May 2019

Hi Folks,

I need to move the Sky satellite feed from my dish. Sky want a lot of money to do it as it's outside of a normal installation and frankly, given the absolute mess the last sky engineer made of the render on my house, I'd rather do it myself anyway.

Can anyone help me out with the cable specification and the connector types needed at the dish LNB end? Are any special tools required?

Thanks!

Bosswhite · 1 May 2019

DIY satellite cable pack
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sky-Satell...ocphy=9046130&hvtargid=pla-423988406345&psc=1

Seb101 · 1 May 2019

Bosswhite said:
DIY satellite cable pack
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sky-Satell...ocphy=9046130&hvtargid=pla-423988406345&psc=1

Ta!

Lower · 1 May 2019

You'll need a satellite finder to get the dish realigned on the right satellite after you've moved the dish.

Seb101 · 1 May 2019

Lower said:
You'll need a satellite finder to get the dish realigned on the right satellite after you've moved the dish.

Do you think its possible to do it carefully enough not to move the dish?

Otherwise, I'll just cut and join the existing cables somewhere.

Lower · 1 May 2019

Sorry, do you mean you just want to rerun the cables or move the actual satellite dish?

Satellite finders aren't expensive and they're simple to use, but you won't need one if you're leaving the dish where it is and just rerouting the cable somewhere else.

Seb101 · 1 May 2019

Just re-routing the cable, but it needs to go externally and be longer than what's currently installed so I planned to run a whole new run from the dish so I don't need to do any joins on the exterior.

Lower · 1 May 2019

If you're not moving the dish you can just connect the new cable onto the LNB and there's no need to realign the dish.

winston1 · 6 May 2019

Seb101 said:
frankly, given the absolute mess the last sky engineer made of the render on my house, I'd rather do it myself anyway.

That will be because (s)he wasn't an engineer. Sky don't use engineers, they use installers.

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