Removing SKY Satellite Dish and Cabling

[The Three D Mucketeer]

I'm about to start removing my dish and associated cabling.... I've been on OPENREACH FTTP for 3 years and EE TV for two years . Even if I went back to SKY , it would be streamed over the fibre and the ASTRA satellites that SKY use "fall out of the sky" in 2028 . So anyone got any reasons why I shouldn't get rid ? I hate the thing on the house and the associated wiring which runs in gutters and down my walls.

[Spare tyre]

We used a freeway receiver on an old dish, could be handy as a backup?

[chopper602]

The Three D Mucketeer said:

I'm about to start removing my dish and associated cabling.... I've been on OPENREACH FTTP for 3 years and EE TV for two years . Even if I went back to SKY , it would be streamed over the fibre and the ASTRA satellites that SKY use "fall out of the sky" in 2028 . So anyone got any reasons why I shouldn't get rid ? I hate the thing on the house and the associated wiring which runs in gutters and down my walls.

When we moved into our current property there were two Sky dishes attached. Wiring inside so all TV's could receive the Sky feed. All removed, ripped out and thrown away

[AndyNetwork]

Had my dish removed when I had my extension built earlier this year.

Had only used it for about 6 months until I got terrestrial Ariel installed, when I first moved in 15 years ago, with a receiver I acquired when my grandfather passed.

[SwissJonese]

We still have our Dish as FreeSat is much higher quality than FreeView especially on our OLED TV, plus more HD Channels. Luckily our Panasonic TV still has a FreeSat input so no need to buy a separate box.

[James6112]

An ugly thing, that’ll rust away.
Bin it!

[The Three D Mucketeer]

Binned .... But getting rid of the cabling was a nightmare...Bloody SKY Engineers !! In gutters , under roof tiles ... jointed .. miles of unnecessary cable and obviously original old 1 cable with 2nd added for small dishes ... oh and the old large Dish bracket is still there , but that's a ridge runner job and I'm not very good on heights (well falling off bothers me )

[NickXX]

Got a Sky mini box when I moved which streams over the Internet. I took my dish down and all of the cabling - back of the house looks a lot nicer now.

Sky will fit a new one in the unlikely event that I need one, and I left the screws in the old mountings (for now) so that they don't need to fit new ones.