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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: ninjapirate on 11 December 2011, 18:37:38
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Every time it rains i lose sky grrr and its heaving it down at the moment.
Does this happen to anyone else? any thing I can do to stop it happening?
No frigging Ariel in the lounge to get freeview either. :'(
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My old one used to get naff in very heavy rain, esp if we hadn't adjusted it for a while (was mounted on wooden cladding, which wasn't that secure)
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its strange when i had sky it used to go off when the neighbours conifers were too high and blew around in the wind but now i use the same dish and the same unsubscribed box as a freeview setup in the bedroom and ive never had a problem with it
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I've never had a problem, even when it's thick snow :-\
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If a bit of rain is enough to lose the signal then something in your installation is marginal. A dish mounting that is not secure enough and has shifted, an LNB on its' way out, or water getting into the feeder cable would be the first things I'd look for.
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If a bit of rain is enough to lose the signal then something in your installation is marginal. A dish mounting that is not secure enough and has shifted, an LNB on its' way out, or water getting into the feeder cable would be the first things I'd look for.
That seems to be a common one, esp after the winds we had last week. It seems many of our friendly, subcontracted Sky installers haven't been given spanners (or ladders, come to that) by Uncle Rupert. Or maybe all Sky employees are have the strength of The Useless Student ;D
(although, in Tunnie's defence, even he could mount the bloody dishes higher without a ladder).
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the old dish never played up the new one is crap any bit of rain it goes off
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the old dish never played up the new one is crap any bit of rain it goes off
Its been setup wrong ;)
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If a bit of rain is enough to lose the signal then something in your installation is marginal. A dish mounting that is not secure enough and has shifted, an LNB on its' way out, or water getting into the feeder cable would be the first things I'd look for.
That seems to be a common one, esp after the winds we had last week. It seems many of our friendly, subcontracted Sky installers haven't been given spanners (or ladders, come to that) by Uncle Rupert. Or maybe all Sky employees are have the strength of The Useless Student ;D
(although, in Tunnie's defence, even he could mount the bloody dishes higher without a ladder).
Chatting to an installer other day, amount of Health & Saftey crap they have to do before going up a ladder is insane. Takes longer to go through that, than actually putting up the dish!
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the old dish never played up the new one is crap any bit of rain it goes off
Its been setup wrong ;)
Indeed. Just like a fault on an Omega, it takes a bit of diagnosis before you can pronounce any part as being "crap". ;)
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had it checked about 2 years ago and it hasnt moved a bit but when i had the sky hd put in the guy come across as if he didnt want to be here
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If a bit of rain is enough to lose the signal then something in your installation is marginal. A dish mounting that is not secure enough and has shifted, an LNB on its' way out, or water getting into the feeder cable would be the first things I'd look for.
That seems to be a common one, esp after the winds we had last week. It seems many of our friendly, subcontracted Sky installers haven't been given spanners (or ladders, come to that) by Uncle Rupert. Or maybe all Sky employees are have the strength of The Useless Student ;D
(although, in Tunnie's defence, even he could mount the bloody dishes higher without a ladder).
Chatting to an installer other day, amount of Health & Saftey crap they have to do before going up a ladder is insane. Takes longer to go through that, than actually putting up the dish!
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As Mark (tunnie) is aware, my recent Sky instal was done by Sub Contractors & after they came back to rip out the initial Dogs Dinner & do it again I was left with 12 anchor bolt holes in my rear walls, 4 of which were for 'Safety Hooks' to attach the ladder! The first dish instal was at just above head height on my single storey kitchen extension wall, the second was just under my bathroom window approx 50cm above the flat kitchen roof & the cables were fixed at 1.5 metres above the flat roof. They then ran the cables along the side of the house at a height above ground level of 4 metres entailing a further 7 'Safety Hook' holes, but thankfully no further holes in the front of the house as they laid the cables along the top of the front door canopy & then clipped them to the wooden bay window. I almost lost my Rag with the boss of the subby firm when I queried the number of holes & he spouted all this verbal bullsh*te about H&S and said Sky insisted on applying it to the final letter & full stop!! Four days later we had the high winds mentioned earlier & lost the signal! On checking, I found the dish had moved, probably due to only being fixed by one nut & bolt on the adjustable bracket :( Another 3 days later a 'proper' Sky installer came out and refixed the dish higher up the wall as he said it was too low & reception would be lost in the Spring when neighbouring trees resprouted and although it needed another 4 holes to fix the dish he refrained from drilling yet another few safety holes. So now I have an acceptable installation but my house resembles a Swiss Cheese! >:( This Health & Safety nonsense is just that, nonsense as the Legislation is misinterpreted to suit the individual circumstance to make life easier for the worker & bugger Joe Public! Common Sense is nowhere to be seen anymore it would seem. :(
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There are no circumstances under which a Sky installer would ever be permitted to touch my house.
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There are no circumstances under which a Sky installer would ever be permitted to touch my house.
Unfortunetly its contracted out these days, so its pot luck on the installer :(
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There are no circumstances under which a Sky installer would ever be permitted to touch my house.
Unfortunetly its contracted out these days, so its pot luck on the installer :(
That strengthens my argument, I think. ;)
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There are no circumstances under which a Sky installer would ever be permitted to touch my house.
Unfortunetly its contracted out these days, so its pot luck on the installer :(
That strengthens my argument, I think. ;)
Big drive on internally at the moment for retention, its been mentioned a few times the installers are not brilliant. Can't see any big changes happening though
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Ive got a spare lnb im sure, will go up tighten it all and fit that, Ive got a meter somewhere too. dish isnt that high up.
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If a bit of rain is enough to lose the signal then something in your installation is marginal. A dish mounting that is not secure enough and has shifted, an LNB on its' way out, or water getting into the feeder cable would be the first things I'd look for.
That seems to be a common one, esp after the winds we had last week. It seems many of our friendly, subcontracted Sky installers haven't been given spanners (or ladders, come to that) by Uncle Rupert. Or maybe all Sky employees are have the strength of The Useless Student ;D
(although, in Tunnie's defence, even he could mount the bloody dishes higher without a ladder).
Chatting to an installer other day, amount of Health & Saftey crap they have to do before going up a ladder is insane. Takes longer to go through that, than actually putting up the dish!
Sadly, from the installs I have seen, clearly its not H&S, its lazybastarditis thats the problem. H&S is simply the excuse. Still, I'm sure Uncle Rupert doesn't give a monkeys, as long was the subbies are cheap :-X
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There are no circumstances under which a Sky installer would ever be permitted to touch my house.
Indeed. I did consider taking up tunnie on one of his offers, not because I want Sky, but as a cheap way of getting a dish fitted for Freesat. But then it dawned on me, I'd have to buy and fit the dish anyway, and run all the cables. Then Freeview HD came along (which was the only reason I considered Freesat)...
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Ive got a spare lnb im sure, will go up tighten it all and fit that, Ive got a meter somewhere too. dish isnt that high up.
Most of them you can trip over ;D
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never had a problem with sky ive just had a new box and dish fitted the installer was a good bloke and took pride in his work cant fault him although the h&s is crap having to fix securing points to my wall and the safety stuff he had to wear was ott
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have this alot as from words from sky, the clowd cover is to thick and blocking the signal. said ok what can be done. nothing can be done its an act of god. so i said well this is my act dont want you any more.... still keep sending me mail half price this and that if i come back.
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There are no circumstances under which a Sky installer would ever be permitted to touch my house.
Unfortunetly its contracted out these days, so its pot luck on the installer :(
That strengthens my argument, I think. ;)
Big drive on internally at the moment for retention, its been mentioned a few times the installers are not brilliant. Can't see any big changes happening though
Any nice deals for ex sky and now freesat? don't want sport or movies............ :)
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There are no circumstances under which a Sky installer would ever be permitted to touch my house.
Unfortunetly its contracted out these days, so its pot luck on the installer :(
That strengthens my argument, I think. ;)
Big drive on internally at the moment for retention, its been mentioned a few times the installers are not brilliant. Can't see any big changes happening though
Any nice deals for ex sky and now freesat? don't want sport or movies............ :)
PM on its way :)
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PMSL I tried to upgrade/order sky+ hd online but my account shows Im waiting for delivery or something...... yeh nearly 4 years!!!! Really cant be arsed to do the call centres, got messed around 3 days last time waiting.
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well i checked my signal strength its bounching up and down like a yo yo >:( sometime its half then three quarters then it goes right down >:( :y can you tell me if thats right
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well i checked my signal strength its bounching up and down like a yo yo >:( sometime its half then three quarters then it goes right down >:( :y can you tell me if thats right
Should be pretty stable. You really need to take a handheld signal level meter and a patch cable up to the dish and see if you can figure out what's causing it. Could be trees in the way, dish not secure, poor electrical connection, etc.
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Sky was installed at my gaff by a SubContractor in February of this year.... I wont mention the company's name (FutureTV).
I had a reasonable signal during nice weather (SD channels) but HD channels would suffer digital break-up. If it was raining, digital break-up was accross the board.
After months and months of complainging to Sky, they finally agreed to send one of THEIR engineers to my property (September). Two guys turned up, took one look at the dish and said (out of my ear-shot (or as they thought)) "Who the fork did that?".
The Sky Engineers proceeded up their ladder (no H&S tie in) removed the dish, replaced it with a new one (as the FutureTV engineer had forked the adjustable brackets) and Presto, even in heavy Rain, Hail, Sleet, Snow, Winds..... Perfect broadcasts SD and HD.
Of course, I am not happy with Sky for allowing it to drag in so long, but as I have no other option for Digital TV, I have to stick with them. My contract renews in a couple of Months, so come January, I'll be calling them to cancel my contract and see what they can do to entice me to stay. I hope they do deals on the Adult Channels?????? ???
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i got nothing in the way of my dish never had the problem with old dish that is still working