Moving

[russellsmiler]

Hello to all
I am sure i will get the right advise here!!

am about to (this weekend) move from my (on the market) house to a static caravan (that is temporary accomodation for a renovation)

I want sky TV in the caravan, I am a subscriber at my house and have sky +, my mate as a spare sat dish, is there any reason with the right amount of coax, a bit of fiddling about that i cannot get the sky + and subscribed channels up and running in caravan.

In antisipation of some queries
1. There is a stable block adjacent caravan, so plan to fix dish onto wall of this with clear view of satellite.
2. Will use sky grade coax

hope to get a few replies today, as planning early start tommorow.

Cheers Russell

 

[Sam Gangee]

I see no reason not to do this. Be sure to weatherproof connections and protect the cable from rodents, animals and children.

The site is very useful:
http://www.satelliteforcaravans.co.uk

 

[russellsmiler]

Forgot to add that the house and caravan are not in ther same town
4 miles apart!!

 

[rjm2k]

doesn't the sky + box need a phone / broadband connection? will you be able to provide one?

 

[russellsmiler]

Not sure
Dont have phone line connected at present
When engineer set it up we couldnt geta tone on the line, so we just ran an extension to set up and unplugged it after!!
He said it was only a sky marketing tool, and unless i wnted to subscribe to movies etc i didnt need it.

Assume that it will be ok in caravan.

 

[plugwash]

The phoneline is used for buying pay per view content but this does not require a constant phone connection as the box allows a limited ammount of pay per view content to be viewed without a connection and charged next time you connect up.

If you have multiroom then sky also uses the phone connection to check all boxes are on the same phone line and therefore discourage abuse of multiroom.

Other than that and some interactive services sky boxes do not need a phone line.