Recommend a Sky engineer

Finn Dub

Hi,

Could anyone recommend a private engineer that would come out to re-align a sky dish in the Maynooth, Kilcock area. Its impossible to get through to Sky so we are a bit stuck. Our signal and our neighbours went yesterday.

Also, is it possible to view Sky+ recordings without having a satellite signal, I couldn't manage to do it last night?

Cheers,
Finn

Saruman

Tony right here on boards could probably do it. It is what he does
He installed a dish for me once.
I "think" this is his website... http://www.satellite.ie

ixtlan

Could we have a sticky for recommended installers?

Tony seems to be recommended, but does not have contacts everywhere. In particular in the Cork city area.

Tony, if you are reading, has anything changed since the last time I asked this? I will in a few months be looking at doing a HD install and finally moving my dish off the chimney and onto a back wall stand-off brackett. Obviously not something I'd trust the standard Sky guys to do!

Ix.

ixtlan

Finn Dub wrote:

Also, is it possible to view Sky+ recordings without having a satellite signal, I couldn't manage to do it last night?

Cheers,
Finn

To answer this... no. There must be a satellite connection to view recordings. It was changed so that there was a grace period (for a short loss of connection) but I think it might be one hour?

Ix.

Finn Dub

Thanks for that, Tony doesn't cover my area. Anyone have any other suggestions for Kilcock?

floss

Hi Finn,

Sorry this has nothing to do with your question we are from across the waters and not sure how to use this site, could you help us?
We are coming over to Mullingar for hen weekend to see family next week and wanted to know what Mullingar was like?

JHMEG

It's not that difficult to align your dish yourself. If the dish is perpendicular to the ground (ie perfectly level) point it at the direction of the sun at 10:00 in the mornings.

On your digibox go to Services->System->Signal test

When the network ID is 0002 and the Transport stream is 07D4 you're on the right satellite. The stength/quality meters can be used to fine tune it a bit.

Beware some digiboxes are a wee bit slow to update the signal test screen. So you might need to move the dish, wait a few secs, move it another bit etc.

The Sparrow

You could try Electroplus either. They recently installed SKY+ and multiroom in our house and it was a fast efficient service. Not sure if they got to Maynooth, but they probably do since they are in Naas and they went as far as Dun Laoghaire to me.

~ Electroplus ~

Name: Electroplus
Location: Unit 5, Block C,City Link Business Park, Old Naas Road, Dublin 12, Ireland.
Telephone: +353 (0)1-4196240 Fax: +353 (0)1-4196254

E-mail: sales@electroplus.ie
WWW: www.electroplus.ie

Finn Dub

Thanks for the advice, I have a guy coming out this morning to do it, €60 for what will probably be a quick job but I don't have a ladder long enough to get me up to the roof so I don't mind paying!

Cheers.

Krusty_Clown

If it works out ok, can you pm me the details?
I have exactly the same problem, but haven't gotten around to getting it sorted yet.

DMC

ixtlan wrote:

Could we have a sticky for recommended installers?

We do. Its part of the bricks and mortar sticky.

€60 for a re-alignment is a lot cheaper than Sky standard call-out charge, €100.

kleefarr

I had a similar problem last year. We could still get a signal, but in bad weather it would cut out and sometimes disappear for a few minutes at a time.

I spotted a Sky installer down the road one day and went and asked him once he had finished would he mind checking my alignment if I gave him €20. No problem.

Was only a ten minute job and we've had no problems since. (Touch wood)