Is it just me??!!

falteringstar

Is it just me, or does everyone elses signal disappear when ever it rains?? This never happened before i had sky plus put in, do you think its something he did when installing the new lnb?? this must have been a few months now.

noel

sergeant121

A familiar story.

The Sky+ (4-way) LNB is heavier than a standard single LNB and so 'bends' the arm on which it is mounted down slightly - away from the focul point of the dish. In good weather, you don't notice it but, as soon as it rains, the extra blocking of the signals caused by the raindrops is enough to lose you reception.

Mossy Monk

can't say i've noticed this problem and it was bucketing down the other night

willg

I've got a 2nd Digibox and was going to put a QUAD LNB onto the Minidish instead of a twin LNB for possible future Digibox additions. Would you advise against this given what has been stated earlier ?

ShaneOC

I've had a quad LNB on the dish for over two years and only lost the picture once. At the time the picture went you could not see through the rain so I was not too surprised the signal couldn't get through.

If I remember correctly the original single LNB was just as heavy as the quad.

willg

Thanks ShaneOC for your reply ...

watty

Ovviously the dish alignment should be checked if:
1) You are changing LNB
2) Light rain causes pixelation

Once I lost all the pictures, even analog sat was hardly there, but it was the worse rain I ever remembered seeing and crack at back of shed bubbled water and we shovelled water out for 20 minutes.

carryo

I lose picture quite a lot when it rains. Some channels are more susceptable than others ie. E4 goes quite easily. I presume that this is because of their compression rate and/or encryption technique (cheap-skates!).

Would a bigger dish (eg. 60cm) help with this problem or is it purely a problem with allignment (the dish was already installed when I moved in and I don't want to pay for re-allignment if I should actually get a bigger dish)?

mickeyboymel

Originally posted by sergeant121
A familiar story.

The Sky+ (4-way) LNB is heavier than a standard single LNB and so 'bends' the arm on which it is mounted down slightly - away from the focul point of the dish. In good weather, you don't notice it but, as soon as it rains, the extra blocking of the signals caused by the raindrops is enough to lose you reception.

If so, anyway way of counteracting or reenforcing the arm, I am about to replace my single Lnb for a quad?

John R

I have never heard of that bendy arm problem before, is it made of rubber or something?

Robxxx7

I have had a Quad LNB on my sky set up for the last 2 years down in the south west of Ireland without any problem... i have only lost a picture once due to a heavy deluge of rain.... never had any issue with a bendy arm

I would say go ahead and get a quad LNB then it should pretty much future proof what you want to hang off it ....

Thanks
Rob