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Sky Dish Installation

mc141 — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 22:24:03 GMT

Hi,

Having a dish insalled in a week or so. We live in a terraces house on a new build estate so only have one exterior walls that we can install the dish on and it is north east facing. Will this work or will they insist it goes on the front of the house?

Re: Sky Dish Installation

Chodley — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 23:07:56 GMT

It will definitely not work. The satellite cluster is geostationary above the equator so the dish must point south.

Re: Sky Dish Installation

TimmyBGood — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 09:31:10 GMT

@mc141 wrote:

Will this work or will they insist it goes on the front of the house?

Unfortunately, as @Chodley indicates, laws of physics do apply.

Sky UK uses the Astra 2 satellite cluster which is positioned in orbit at 28.2 degrees East of South: this necessitates a roughly 23 degrees East of South dish orientation in Britain.

https://www.dishpointer.com/ will overlay the required line of sight from the address on top of an aerial image.