sky dish with 2 wires?

[Kathy46]

I live in a block of flats, the landlord will not allow me to have a sky dish. I was wondering if I could attach a wire to an existing dish(with permission) and use that. Would it affect the signal in any way?
Thanks

[woofgang]

You could ask sky....

[rov1100]

When we wanted a second output from the dish we can to convert to a quad LNB which of course will allow for 4 outputs. Original dishes just have a single LNB.

[DTCwordfan]

//You could ask sky.... //

pizzing myself with laughter at Kathy being done for the equivalent of "hacking" into a News International (currently 39%) investment.

[mumsie_wumsie]

Ready for the switch over soon this month, I have got a freesat box in my bedroom connected to my TV and also connected through to my Sky dish.(I have Sky downstairs on my main TV). This was done for me by the BBC contractors. So yes another line can be fed into an existing Sky dish.

[mumsie_wumsie]

And the picture is very good....signal is good...

[ChuckFickens]

As rov indicates you'd need to upgrade the PNB (the bit on the end of the pole that the cable attaches to) to a quad output LNB and then you could just run another cable (or 2 if you want sky+) from the dish to your box and there would be no effect on the picture quality.

[ChuckFickens]

LNB.... Not PNB :)

[bushbaby_de]

If the landlord is happy with one dish on the property but not any more, can you not ask for the existing dish to be changed to a communal dish so all the flats can connect to it?

[AlBags]

They could .. but if it is a privately-owned dish .. that's probably not going to be the case.

Best approach is to ask the actual owner if you/they can swap the lnb to a twin or quad preferably (as above)
A quad LNB is round a tenner, connects the same and just has xtra outputs, so you can cable to other receivers.

[bushbaby_de]

As its a block of flats I am assuming there will be a landlord (freeholder) for the entire block and that's who I was referring to in my post.

[AlBags]

Yes .. I realised that myself .. but one occupant (even could be the landlord) could privately own it .. and they 'drew the line at that'

[Hard@it]

Generally in a block of flats a factoring payment is made and there could be a communal dish which you latch on to and the cost is included in the factoring payment, (for the dish only). You would then contact Sky and ask to be added to it, and you will obviously pay your normal Sky costs direct to Sky.