topic Re: Single artillery cable to set Q box in Sky Q

Single artillery cable to set Q box

Ipad.. — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:53:24 GMT

I need a cable that comes out of sky q into a single ariel port on wall. There is a large communal dish on my estate why allows sky to work. Anyone's know that that cable is?

Re: Single artillery cable to set Q box

nigea99 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:12:35 GMT

@Ipad.. wrote:
I need a cable that comes out of sky q into a single ariel port on wall. There is a large communal dish on my estate why allows sky to work. Anyone's know that that cable is?

hi @Ipad..

You just need to search for Satellite Cable Fly lead

The come with 2 'F' connectors on each end and can be obtained in various lengths

Re: Single artillery cable to set Q box

MightyQuinn — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:45:15 GMT

Hi @Ipad.. Just in case you are not aware, the LNB type will need to be changed in the hidden settings for the single feed.

Re: Single artillery cable to set Q box

Godfrey — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:30:24 GMT

@Ipad.. to configure a Sky Q receiver to use Single Cable Router (SCR) LNB mode;

Press Home
Scroll down to Settings - but do not press enter/select at this point
Press 0 0 1 in sequence followed by the Enter/ select button
You should now have the engineer's menu displayed

Change the LNB type from the 'default' Wideband option to SCR

After changing the LNB mode, remove mains power from your SKY Q box, and then restart it to allow your Sky Q receiver to re-configure itself to now use a communal Single Cable Router as its satellite transponder signal source.

Godfrey.

Re: Single artillery cable to set Q box

Me134 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:01:36 GMT

Perhaps I'm missing the point here but wouldn't the (presumably) existing shotgun cable work, just attaching one of the ends to the single 'aeriel socket' (unless that turns out to be a terrestrial aerial as I initially thought)?

Re: Single artillery cable to set Q box

nigea99 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:21:54 GMT

@Me134 wrote:

Perhaps I'm missing the point here but wouldn't the (presumably) existing shotgun cable work, just attaching one of the ends to the single 'aeriel socket' (unless that turns out to be a terrestrial aerial as I initially thought)?

My thoughts (& hence my reply) were just that the cable was lost or broken and thus just needed replacing.

Re: Single artillery cable to set Q box

Ipad.. — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:09:54 GMT

the original cable came out of the dish which I left hence I need to replace

Re: Single artillery cable to set Q box

DaveDrizen — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:00:10 GMT

@Ipad.. wrote:
I need a cable that comes out of sky q into a single ariel port on wall. There is a large communal dish on my estate why allows sky to work. Anyone's know that that cable is?

Can you not find out who owned or maintain and provides the service for that communal dish system. They should have people like Sky do that connect the consumer to there system and set up your Sky box to work with there system, they are not usualy user self install. Also would have thought such communal dish systems like cable companies are not usually free and you probably have to pay monthly or yearly fee to use it to cover things like maintenance cost ect on top of your Sky subscription.