Doh! Heavy rain = NO sky signal
 

Does anyone else have this problem, or does my dish need repositioning?

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mines fine....

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Are there never any weather conditions which cause you to lose signal?

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I get that on my freeview box in my bedroom, but that must be my ariel:(
dont have sky anymore....im sad!

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my partners had sky longer than me and he says no, its always been ok...

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We get problems when there is bad weather....i.e. very heavy rain, snow etc.
It really hacks me off.

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I have Freeview as a backup because the Sky signal fails often (glad I dont PAY for Sky or I would be well peeved.)

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dont know if it makes a difference but our dish is really high up because of all the trees....

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It must be all the trees nearby = weak signal
I cant have the dish on the roof because I am in a rented flat

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Mine sometimes goes when the weather is very bad. It's ok tonight, but it's so exposed at the back of my house that when heavy cloud/rain/snow comes off the moors, the signal breaks up.

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i remeber when sky first said there would be no interference with the new digital ......yeh right:o

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I have a view of the moors at the back too......nice isn't it :)
I suppose lack of Sky signal sometimes is a small price to pay for a beautiful view :D

PS sometimes hang out of the window and shout 'Heathcliffe' --but he never comes

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You'd have a shock if he did turn up!!! ;)

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You don't get interferance as such with digital satellite. You either get a picture or you don't. If the signal is poor you may see bad pixelation or the picture freezing.
You should not really have problems with heavy rain. I suspect you dish need re aligning or has been poorly installed. Some of the installations by the Sky engineers are not very good, the worst are usually the sub contractors. I personally think they should install the slightly larger zone 2 dishes this far north especially with the quad LNB's that are used with Sky+ and/or multiroom (zone 1 - 48cm zone 2 - 60cm, they are both the same shape). The 48cm zone 1 dishes are usually ok up here but in very bad weather you can start to loose signal.

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All that freezing and loss of signal might not happen with a zone 2 dish.

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How much bigger are they?

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So do we. We get the picture breaking up.

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Yep same here! Every time it's heavy rain.

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I said in my first post

thats 12 cm or about 5" in old money.

It sounds like a few of you need your dish alignment tweaking.
I could make some money out of this thread :rolleyes::eek::D

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Are you a tweaker by trade then? :D

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:D:DNo I tend to tweak mainly for fun. I have been tweaking for many years and if I do say so myself am very good at it :rolleyes::D

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if your dish is correctly positioned and the cable from the LNB to teh receiver is in good conditon you shouldn't get any problems in heavy rain. If you are unlucky to live where there are trees in teh line of sight then that can cause an issue but simply repositioning teh dish can make a massive difference. YOu really need a decent installer who knows his job.

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think it might be you dish need repositioning mine did it for a while got it sorted now

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Margateret I had this problem and then the signal went altogether. When I got a chappy out to it, apparently it hadnt been installed properly and rain had got in the cable and had leaked through. You could see all the rust on the box where the water had gone in so might be worth just checking that.

Didnt cost too much to sort but i could have neded up having to buy a new box, but luckily caught it in time

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Is trying to find a decent sky installer as difficult as trying to find a decent plumber/heating or gas engineer? I know how hard that is, I spend my life putting thier jobs right!

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CORGI registration = licence to print money :rolleyes::p:D

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Mines fine and its on the roof ! Its that fine rain that break the signal and also soaks you through :)