British sky satellite TV in Poland

However, you'll need a seriously huge dish to get the signal: here in Warsaw you need 2.7 metres of dish.

A much better alternative is to keep up your Sky subcription in the UK and watch it in Poland. That way you only need a 1 metre dish.

Definitely bring it with you. I know plenty of people over here using theirs from the UK and Ireland and receiving all the sports channels as well as the others. If you don't end up using it I'm pretty sure you'd be able to sell it. I'd maybe even be interested myself!

no harry no, 60/80 cm dish is enough, ONLY channels on one transponder ( astra 2d ) need large dish ( bbc1234, itv234).
I have all chanels from FTA ( accesible without card ) , for some unknown reason you need the card to wath itv1, channel 5 and sky3 but you dont need this piece of plastic to watch channel4

Actually you dont well not in Dolnoslaskie anyway, at first i plugged in my standard small sky dish with sky box and had plenty of channels. Slowly i have been losing channels as the card becomes obsolete. Used to have channel 4, 5, sky three, five usa, fiver. Still have BBC news 24 with all the BBC (red button) sport features very handy, sky movies channels 320 - 326, horror channel true movies etc.. and loads of the mid range african, asian and Arab crap.

So bring it for sure.

Not in Warsaw. Here you need a 1 metre dish to have a reliable signal in all weather. I'm guessing you are in western Poland. And 2D is not a transponder, it is an entirely different satellite.


It's not the card becoming obsolete, it's the channels being moved to a different satellite (i.e. from 2A to 2D). If you want to get 2D (which has all the Freesat channels), you will need 2.7 metres in Warsaw. Looking at the footprint map, you might be able to get away with a 2.4 metre dish in Wroclaw.

i dont know anything about 2d but from what i can gather if i paid for a sky subsricption in the UK and just plugged that box in over here id have full on sky TV.

Only if you have a 2.7 metre (maybe 2.4 metre) dish. If you just have a 1 metre dish, you will not have any BBC channels (other than BBC news and the parliament channel), any ITV channels, any C4 channels (other than S4C), Channel 5 (but you do get the Channel 5 US etc channels), Men & Motors, and a couple of other minor channels. I know this because I've got Sky and have had it for about eight years.

I can confirm Harry is correct here about only some channels working as I have a 1m sky dish too in Warsaw, additionally the sky sports channels and ESPN work also if you subscribe to them.

I used to have channel 4 and 5 with a one meter dish and recently lost five us and fiver also, are you saying this is because they moved to 2d?

ITV 1, channel 4, chanel4+1, channel5, channel 5 US, fiver and sky3 are located on astra2a/2b satellites. Beam for them is spread across Europe far far away, covering even Ukraine, you need only 60 cm dish to get signal in Poland everywere, you might get some problems like harry have when he have 10 storey block house in front of his 2 storey bunker

No they are not (with the exceptions of channel 5 US, fiver and sky3) and no you can not. A one metre dish is needed to reliably get a signal in all weather: I've got a one metre dish and an unobstructed view of the southern sky but once every couple of years the snow is so bad I can't get a signal. You clearly have no idea what you are blathering about. Why not leave this thread to people who actually live in Warsaw and have Sky TV here?

I have been reading a lot about this from spanish forums ( brits in Spain ) so I know where these channels are and how to find them, basically you have to change default transponder ( which is 11.778, polarisation V, symmbol rate 27.5, FEC 2/3 ) to other one - I am not going to tell you harry.

I know what I have know and what dish I use and I am not in west Poland, atually far from it.

You don't need to tell me: ITV 1 is 12402V SR 27500 FEC 2/3 (2B North beam). I just can't be arsed to prat about with adding channels.

2B Nort beam is where? astra 2d? congratulations, now tell me where channel 4 is, smart pants

It's not 2A, is it! C4 is on 12480V C4 +1 on 12480V both SR 27500 FEC 2/3. E4 is on 12480V E4 +1 is on 12480V More 4 is on 12480V

You want anything else from my favorites folder?

so where these channels are? on astra 2D?
tell me you twisted mind that 12480V sr27.5 FEC2/3 is on astra 2d and you need 2.7 m dish to watch this channel in Poland

is sky news available on cyfra plus ?

It seems to be there in channel line up but it says brak when i select....Is there anything I can do to receive it ?

Merged thread:
sky box in poznan

Would anyone know for certain that if I buy a 1m dish in Poznan
(a shop I visited said 85cm would be okay) I could receive some
english channels. I know I could not receive BBC1 or ITV unless
I had a giant dish but understand Astra 2a & 2b is okay just not
2d.

Which channels could I get - Sky news, BBC World news, Channel 5
for instance....thanks for any advice....and do I need a sky card
because I do not have one ...

Do a search as this question for sky has been answered many times.

use search term, "sky dish"

i have a skybox in Western Poland with full UK subscription. I have recently lost Sky Sports 4. All other chanels are ok. Does any one have any suggestions? Do I nead to upgrade the receiver?

Merged: English TV satellite reception in Karpacz?

Read lots about satellite changes and appreciate difficulty of Karpacz's mountainous location! Has anyone any current experience about dish size etc to pick up the BBC and other English language channels without going Sky route? Thanks very much.

Please could my post requesting information on non sky tv not be merged with a several years old thread on sky tv? I was looking for advice on an alternative - do you think I will get any replies as the last entry was 2013? Thanks

There is a good chance as the old thread is back on the front page again.

Yep.

Sat TV is dead in the water with the advent of internet streaming.

Filmon.com to name just one. Or get a VPN. etc, etc.........

You're looking at a 2.4 metre dish. You might be able to get away with a 1.8 metre dish in some weather at some times of the day depending on where exactly you are, but I doubt it. Here in Warsaw we need 2.7 metre dishes and even those don't pick up signal in all weathers. But with Sky you only need a 100cm dish and you're good in pretty all weathers (I've lost signal maybe two or three times in a decade and a half).

If you really don't want to use Sky, get a decent VPN sorted (I use hidemyass) and stream TV on demand; although even with that it's a lot easier and better if you have a Sky box and the basic Sky package.

Hello Everyone, I've just moved from UK to gdansk and brought my Sky box with Sky subscription with me. I've had conflicting information As to whether it will work here. Can anyone confirm please exactly what size dish I need, maybe even a brand of dish and any specific information please? Many thanks

Look at the post just before you. For Sky, a 1 m dish should be enough. Much a bigger one is needed if you want to receive the free-to-air channels from the UK.

Thank you for the reply. Have you got experience of this actually working in Gdansk on a 120 cm dish?