Reply to: Sky satellite signal

[BolshieBastard]

Sky's signal is pathetically weak. Before they merged, the BSB signal was a lot stronger which is why the 'squarial' was smaller than sky's bin lid dish.

BSB's round dish was even smaller!

Sadly when BSB and sky merged, the more numerous sky subscribers and hence sky's system won out but it was the weaker of the two.

[Troll]

That works OK? wow.

Doesn't the signal fall when it rains? Do you need a larger dish?

Maybe I will buy a dish then. Always avoided buying one as it would ruin the look of the outside.

I always thought the dish needed line of sight to the satellite!

[expat]

What is really striking about the signal levels for Sky at 29E, is how low they are...

Maybe that's because Astra 2 is at 28.2E?

[Churchill]

What is really striking about the signal levels for Sky at 29E, is how low they are... the stuff at 19E comes storming in, 10dB higher at least.

Well, it is nearer!

[Churchill]

Spiders up the feedhorn.

It's a killer.

It depends what you're sending down the waveguide!

(Never, ever, EVER look down a waveguide!)

[Fred Bloggs]

Spiders up the feedhorn.

It's a killer.

Extremely painful as well. No doubt

[expat]

I found I needed a signal strength meter, the Sky box is awful, but the meter was OK if a bit fiddly. I installed several in, er, locations where a Sky engineer was not available....

Provided the LNB is working etc, all that matters is the line of sight. In one house, I checked out good locations for the dish by waiting for a time when the sun was behind the satellite (google is your friend) and looking for a nice sunny spot in the garden.

[stingman123]

Looking through the tiles?

Or slates?

Or a velox window?

It sits there looking through roof tiles, big thick old b*ggers as well!


I was surpised it worked TBH, another tick from the missus as well!

[stingman123]

That works OK? wow.

Doesn't the signal fall when it rains? Do you need a larger dish?

Maybe I will buy a dish then. Always avoided buying one as it would ruin the look of the outside.

Nope, everything standard, sky engineer wouldn't do it, so we had the dish outside for a while, then got another engineer to move it. There's no problems at all, even when it rains the pic is fine.

HTH

[Fred Bloggs]

we had similar problems, and it used to lock up if you tuned certain channels. They replaced the lnb, the sky engineer said it had leaked and was full of water.

Yes, that's right, our has done that. We've had 3 or 4 new LNB's over the years since SKY started.

[SteveV]

we had similar problems, and it used to lock up if you tuned certain channels. They replaced the lnb, the sky engineer said it had leaked and was full of water.

[vetran]

In the attic?

That works OK? wow.

Doesn't the signal fall when it rains? Do you need a larger dish?

Maybe I will buy a dish then. Always avoided buying one as it would ruin the look of the outside.

[Clippy]

Thanks guys.

I think the builders who built the porch must have nudged it as, overall, it looks to be in the same position as before.

[lilelvis2000]

Worth the £20-30 to have a pro come in and re-align it. They do
get knocked around by the wind.

[stingman123]

What they Said....

I've got my dish in my attic and there's no probs whatsoever.