Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 1038889)

Any one else having problems with Skyb or FreeSat, both are coming back with messages no signal unplug your box and wait 5 mins.
Still no signals, I suspect its a fault on the land lines carrying the signals to the uplink transmitter, the web has started to run really slow as well can't get on the Great War Forum.

Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 1038897)

snow does affect sky/satellite TV as teh whole thing relies on line of sight to the sat from the dish. Snow blocks this, Nowt to do with telephony or anything else, Freesat uses the same sat BTW

Mine is working fine BTW so clearly Sky itself is not "offline"

Originally Posted by Boeing Guy (Post 1038902)

36000miles, sounds a bit far for geo stationary, the US NAVSTAR (GPS) are only 22000miles.
You sure you did not mean km?

Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 1038899)

Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 1038914)

I think you will find they all share the group of sats and I didn't suggest there was more than one because for all intents and purposes there is a singular collection that deals with our satellite TV needs. If you knew this much you would also understand the needs of line of sight so it begs the question why your earlier posts were so misguided????????

and yes, its 36K km not miles



SKy as we know it uses 28.2E with a little on 28.5

Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 1038899)

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 1038954)

Its because of the snow, maybe your dish alignment is poor and you get away with it normally.

This far north we should use a 60cm dish not the 48cm dishes that most installers use. They do it because they are cheaper and people like the look of the smaller dish on the house

Originally Posted by shillelagh (Post 1039025)

i lost sky about 11pm last nite .. but still had freeview .. but just checked and its back now ...

Originally Posted by suntor (Post 1052607)

We're having the same problem at the moment, freeview box. Missed part 2 of Silent Witness. I assume it's something to do with the weather.
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Originally Posted by JCB (Post 1052615)

On Wednesday evening I couldn't get BBC channels and Sky News channel on my freeview TV set . I got the message on the screen saying weak or no signal . It was the same on Thursday morning .

I re-tuned the TV on auto tuning and got the channels back .

I still don't know what was wrong , but the re-tuning worked . :confused:

Originally Posted by Mick (Post 1052617)

You get what you pay for, I will stay with cable its not dependant on the weather:D:p

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 1052624)

I never have any problems with Sky these days, not even the odd solar flare:rolleyes:but had to retune Free Sat on Wednesday, mind you it kept telling us for ages we'd have to do it:D

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 1052627)

Your use of a 'sarcastic smiley' makes me think you regard my earlier comment to be just 'conspiracy theory'.

So -

Space Weather

Originally Posted by Mick (Post 1052617)

You get what you pay for, I will stay with cable its not dependant on the weather:D:p

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 1052624)

I never have any problems with Sky these days, not even the odd solar flare:rolleyes:but had to retune Free Sat on Wednesday, mind you it kept telling us for ages we'd have to do it:D

Originally Posted by DtheP47 (Post 1052639)

mmmm lots of grrring from oneself on this... retunes tv's as instructed.... Sky News missing on just one of em..swap sets, that works ok from that aerial feed ???

Grollocks...I am off to my shed on wheels on the Llyn, will sort it out Monday maybe?

Always fascinated variable digi-signal from Winter Hill only say 20 miles as the crow flies.
Dish on shed in Wales gets super signal from Astra2 30,000 miles up in the sky come hail, rain or shine :D
Black magic and electrickery I reckon ;)

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 1052640)

They are only 22,500 miles away