Satellite Dish Installation & Independent Sky TV Assistance

We're upfront about the second one: AVNZ is not affiliated with Sky TV or Downer, and we don't sell or supply Sky decoders. What we do have is years of hands-on experience installing and servicing them, so we can diagnose and fix most issues without you needing to book a Sky technician.

• Replacing a corroded dish. Whether it's an old free-to-air dish or your existing Sky dish, a standard dish doesn't last forever on a coastal roof. We fit a non-corrosive replacement.
• Low coverage areas. If your UHF aerial can't pull in enough signal, or any signal at all, satellite TV reaches areas terrestrial aerials simply can't. It's often the answer where an aerial install has already been tested and come up short.
• Sized to your site. Dishes come in a few different sizes depending on your location and signal needs, we'll size it properly rather than defaulting to one option.
• A non-corrosive alternative to a standard Sky dish. If you're a Sky customer whose dish keeps corroding, we can fit a better-built dish that's fully compatible with your existing decoder.

If we get on site and find the decoder itself is actually the fault, not the dish or cabling, we'll tell you plainly. Since we don't sell Sky decoders, we'll help you order a replacement through your own Sky account, then reschedule the job for once the new decoder has arrived on site, rather than charging you a callout for a job we can't finish that day.

We'll check which decoder you actually have and what your site allows before recommending anything, not just reach for the cheapest box by default.

• A standard dish and LNB arm rusted solid on a coastal roof, throwing the alignment out.
• An RF modulator fitted to a newer white NSB decoder that was never going to support it, wasting money on a job that had to be redone.
• A dish realigned by rough guesswork after a storm, instead of confirmed with a proper signal reading.
• Multiple TVs jury-rigged off one decoder with no proper distribution, leaving picture quality inconsistent room to room.

No. AVNZ is not affiliated with Sky TV or Downer. We're an independent installer with years of experience installing and servicing Sky dishes and decoders, but we don't sell or supply Sky decoders, that always goes through your own Sky account.

Yes. Free-to-air TV is also broadcast by satellite, so where a UHF aerial can't get enough signal, or none at all, a satellite dish is often the answer. Dishes come in a few different sizes depending on what your site needs.

We can install a non-corrosive replacement dish that's fully compatible with your existing Sky decoder, giving you hardware built for the coast instead of the standard dish corroding again in a few years.

If we're on site and diagnose the decoder itself as the fault, we'll help you order a replacement and reschedule the job for once the new decoder has arrived. We don't sell Sky decoders ourselves, so that part goes through your own Sky account.

Generally no, we don't sell or supply these as a retail product. Where it's genuinely needed, we can supply a free-to-air satellite decoder or an IPTV streaming device under standard retail warranty, if it develops a fault, we'll collect it and return it to the supplier for replacement under the Consumer Guarantees Act. Sky decoders are different and are never supplied by us.

Depends on your decoder and site. Older black Kaon decoders can use an RF modulator, though it's an older analogue technology and mostly redundant now. Newer white NSB decoders need an HD modulator or HDMI extender instead. Over a short distance with suitable wall and ceiling access, an HDMI splitter can also work. We'll assess your decoder and site before recommending which one is actually worth paying for.