Has something happened the Irish Channels on Sky box in Europe

jester77

Hi
I'm living in Frankfurt at the moment and have a sky box with the full sky package. We subscribed for this package while in Ireland and brought the box and card over. Everything was working ok up to this week. Now we cant receive the Irish channels plus during the week we couldnt get Sky interactive to work in order to see the different Champions Leagues games, message would say to try later. We had to do with the default games, Chelsea and Man Utd on Wed night.
When we try to view the Irish channels we get a message that no signal is being received.
Has something been changed or what could be wrong??
I really want to see the rugby match on Sun. morning.

Thanks

Mossy Monk

your dish could be slightly misalligned and therefore not picking up Astra 2D. the champions league interactive service is also on that satellite. for the rugby on Sunday it will also be shown live on S4C Digidol (channel 184) if you can't sort it out

jester77

thanks mossy,
I'll get someone to look at the dish.
At least I can watch the game, which is what I'm most concerned about

Mossy Monk

no problem. enjoy the game. the kick off time isnt as rough for you. the difference an hour makes :ninja:

maisflocke

Jester,

How large is your dish?

60cms should work for you in Mainhatten, but you do need spot-on alignment, you get best results when you align your dish to an astra 2D frequency ie, the RTÉ and TV3 frequency.

If you can get 65% strength and 60-65% quality, you have avery good signal considering you are miles outside of the official 60cm footprint. Heavy rain will affect your viewing sometimes though.

If you have an 80cm dish, align on the RTÉ freq. until you hit 80% strength, 75% quality.

jester77

The dish is 60cm. Its strange, no reception during the Irish game so had to watch it on S4C, had a look when the English game was on and the reception was back and has remained perfect so far. I didnt change or touch anything and the weather has been ok all weekend, just cold with no rain and no wind, not even a breeze. Cant figure it out, I remember seeing something about solar flares affecting transmissions across the globe last week, bit of a longshot!! There are more solar flares expected in 2 weeks, wait and see ...

maisflocke

Nothing to do with the flares, Jester, just the fact that your dish is not fully aligned to the 2d satellite.

S4C is on a european-wide beam, which would explain good reception at all times.
RTÉ is on a spot beam aimed at Ireland & the UK and not to Frankfurt am Main. You *can* receive RTÉ transmissions on a 60 cm dish there, but you will have a blank screen every now & then because of local weather conditions.
I am aware that the weather played no part in your loss of picture over the weekend - your loss of picture would however suggest that your dish alignment is in need of fine tuning.

You can manually check the strength of the RTÉ frequency, by selecting the following on your dodgybox.

[services] [4] [0] [1] [select]

then [5] (manual tuning)

Freq details.
10743 H
22.0
5/6

select.

You will now see the signal strength for your RTÉ transponder.
You will need to have at least 65% signal strength here, anything less explains why you lost your pictures.

jester77

Thanks maisflocke,
I wasn't aware you could check the signal strength, very helpful advice. I will try this out later.