I agree with Realist.
As I understand it, your SkyQ signal is fine for the one telly, but you are lacking a good signal from all your many other tellies.
If you are happy with SkyQ, and only want a Freeview signal to be available on your other tellies, I shouldn’t bother with Freesat.
Would a hybrid LMB box attached to your SkyQ dish provide a signal to your other tellies? I doubt it.
Sorry Arty, I don’t know anything about satellite dishes never having had one… But I do know about ‘Aerials’ (except how to spell it obviously…
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Fourteen years is getting on a bit for a telly aeriel Arty, sitting up on the chimney in all weathers, but I think if the cable to the aeriel had been severed completely you wouldn’t get a picture at all…
The interesting thing here is the mix of FreeView and FreeSat TVs.
It’s somewhat unusual for people to have both TBH.
Those people who live in a dodgy area with little to no decent reception from a FreeView transmitter, tend to opt for FreeSat and so get a satellite dish installed.
I have FreeView so I have a conventional aerial on the roof. I would not dream of also getting a satellite dish for FreeSat. What would be the point?
So thinking this through I am suspecting that Art actually had mostly FreeSat going through her house, rather than FreeView. The FreeSat cable would have been attached to the old satellite dish. When the Sky engineer came and installed a new dish for SkyQ he would naturally have disconnected that cable as FreeSat is not supported with standard SkyQ.
It’s at that point that al the TVs in the house would have lost their signal.
That can only be rectified by having a Hybrid LMB installed on your new dish.
I suspect that all the messing about with other aerials to try and get a FreeView signal are just a red herring here. I’m willing to bet that the FreeView transmission signal in your area is already crappy no matter what you do and THAT is probably why you were using FreeSat.
So, the best way forward here is to get a Hybrid LMB installed and restore FreeSat. I bet when you do that all the other TV’s will work just fine.
There’s a Hybrid LMB for sale here on Amazon
Sky 6 Way Hybrid LNB for Q/HD
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sky-Way-Hybrid-LNB-HD-BLACK/dp/7555564149
Customer Review Comment:
"Perfect replacement for a multi-output universal LNB if you’re moving to Sky Q "
"Sky Q requires a wideband LNB which is a custom Sky part. The company offers only two LNBs: the standard 2 output LNB that Sky engineers produce when they arrive to install Sky Q and this 6-output hybrid LNB.
Does the hybrid LNB work with Sky Q and Freesat simultaneously?
Having read in some places about needing to use two specific outputs for Sky Q I was concerned that the LNB had no markings on its outputs to indicate which should be used for Sky Q. In fact it doesn’t matter. This LNB will support Sky Q on any of its outputs: the Sky Q box sends a signal to the LNB on the outputs to which it is connected, switching those outputs to wideband mode. So the LNB works universally on any of the outputs with Freesat receivers, Sky+ HD boxes and Sky Q."
Talking of Freesat reception and appropriate LNBs, I’m afraid has lost me.
I know nothing of satellite reception.
However, as for the terrestrial aerial, I have to say that ours (there are two for some reason, each attached to a separate TV) are at least 14 years old and both are working perfectly. If you have a booster, and if the aerial is in good condition regardless of its age, it is perfectly possible to use them for your ‘ordinary’ televisions.
In any event, I think you’re going to need to ensure you have working cable connections to the aerial/booster/LMB as the case may be, and from what you say your cables have been cut.
It sounds more complex than it is. FreeSat is simply a TV service broadcast from a satellite just like Sky. So you need a dish to receive it and the thing at the end of the prong sticking out of the dish, is called the LMB.
Sky Q’s LMB doesn’t work with FreeSat. It can’t receive the FreeSat signal/frequency at the dish.
So you have to replace it with a Hybrid LMB that can receive both Sky and FreeSat.
That’s not necessarily true. It all depends, as I said in my last post, whether there is any decent FreeView signal transmission in Art’s postcode area. Many areas of Britain have really bad FreeView signal reception and some don’t have any at all. people living in those areas can’t get FreeView no matter what aerial they have. So instead they install a satellite dish and get FreeSat instead. No Sky TV involved at all, just a dish to receive FreeSat.
I’m guessing (still) that Art is in a bad FreeView area which is why she has FreeSat already set up.
Thanks. That sounds quite straightforward.
Does that mean that both Sky and Freesat transmit from the same satellite, which I assume must be geostationary?
Yes, of course. I was assuming that Angel had been receiving Freeview signals from her terrestrial aerial but, of course, she may (as you suggested) have been receiving Freesat signals. Wouldn’t she, then, have a Freesat box somewhere or even a Freesat box for each TV?
As I mentioned before, I don’t claim to be an expert in these matters.
I will list each television and what they are connected to…
Main Plasma, digital television is now connected to a new SkyQ box which is connected to the new SkyQ dish. Ordinary Freeview aerial is connected too, from aerial socket on the wall.
The Sky Plus box this tv was previously connected to is in a box now. The Sky Plus dish it was connected to, has gone and the new SkyQ dish has replaced it.
This Plasma television was previously connected to an old Sky box and then connected to the, Sky Plus dish. This Sky box that l received Freesat on, no longer works as it won’t work off the new SkyQ dish.
The tv now works off the digital aerial and l receive Freeview.
This LCD, tv is in a bedroom and is connected to the Freeview aerial from the wall socket.
This LCD, tv works from the Freeview aerial socket in the wall.
This LCD, tv works from the Freeview aerial socket in the wall.
This LCD, tv used to work from tv 5, via an aerial adapter thing. It now no longer receives a signal.
This is a small screen analogue monitor/television, wall mounted in the kitchen. l used to be able to watch channels before digital tv came in via the wall aerial socket.
I then used a Freeview box connected to it, until the builders did something that l was able to watch whatever was playing on Sky on tv 1, on this tv.
Since the old Sky dish has gone. I can’t receive anything on this tv because it is analogue.
Instead, l have connected the old Freeview box to it and it works ok.
All the televisions except No 1, now suffer with intermittent pixelation. I am not sure if they are still working off the amplifier in the loft?
Too weaker signal trying to supply too many telly’s Arty…
Either bad connection from aerial on chimney, or something wrong with aerial amplifier…
Foxy, They ‘tidied’ up the cables outside and left two severed cables in the outside wall (see pics shown earlier in this thread).
I later, found lots of cables in my dustbin!
Wow! This is quite complicated!
No. 1 is OK receiving SkyQ.
Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5 work from your terrestrial aerial but have pixellated images.
No. 6 as 2, 3, 4 and 5, but has no signal at all.
No. 7 as 2, 3, 4 and 5, works via a Freeview box but has pixellated images.
I suggest that a possible cause of the pixellation on nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 could be that the Sky people (or a strong wind!) have moved your terrestrial aerial slightly out of alignment. This misalignment could have resulted in a reduced signal from the transmitter which could account for the pixellation, yet you are still receiving a signal. If this is what has happened, it could be relatively simple to correct.
As no. 6 has no signal at all, perhaps that could have been fed by the cable that the Sky people ‘tidied up’!
God, I’ve got a headache now, though I thank you for starting this thread because it is becoming interestinger and interestinger!
I’m looking forward to hearing what the others make of all this.
JBR, 
You can imagine what my head was like after composing the post!
Sorry, if l wasn’t clear but all the televisions, except no 6 and 7 do receive a signal from the Freeview aerial now but it isn’t as good as it used to be.
At first none of them had any signal at all but my friend who helps me got them going again with the exception of No. 6 and 7.
No 7 will work off the Freeview box.
I’ve got to tidy all my rooms as l suppose the Sky engineers will want to check the signal on each tv.
Why didn’t l keep my big mouth shut and do without televisions?!!
There are times when everyone wishes they had a “show house” …
Remember - flush the toilet and take your undies off the radiator … 
And, don’t forget the tea and biscuits! Or small pieces of Easter egg
He may have got them going again but, personally, I wouldn’t be very happy if the pictures are pixellated, even occasionally.
Why should you? They were all working before the Sky bodgers (er, engineers) cocked things up.
And the cat o’ nine tails if they try to fob you off.
Those activities sound quite exciting … :shock:
Ah Yes Arty, Butttttttt…
If The cable from your aerial or amplifier had been cut, you would not get a picture at all…Not even a pixelated one…
Ah, but Angel’s no. 6 TV has no picture at all.
Why? Probably because it has had its cable cut.
The others, as I suggested, may be pixellated because the (terrestrial) aerial has been shifted.
It also occurred to me that the Sky people might have done this on purpose to entice her into taking their further offer of having Sky on her other tellies!
Art, can I just check
When you refer to “The FreeView aerial” are you 100% sure which is which?
Can you identify the FreeView cables from the FreeSat cables?
