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Save me from having to climb my chimney

  • 13-10-2008 9:19pm
    #1
    cutback
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭


    My sky box's satellite signal has been behaving very strangely the last week or so. The reception keeps breaking up when I'm watching it and now it's started losing the signal altogether and giving me the 'no signal' message. The thing that confuses me though is that when the signal is present it has a strength of around 65% (I would have thought it'd be lower). At first I thought it was being caused by bad weather but it's now doing it when the weather seems fine.

    Short of getting up onto the roof to check the dish, I'm not sure what to do.

    Has anyone ever had a problem like this? and could be anything other than the dish misalignment which I fear it is?


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  • #2
    biologikal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 371 ✭✭biologikal


    Try another box, if possible. Only other thing you can check is the quality of the connection into your STB. If this checks out ok, and another STB gives similar behaviour, then you'll have to get up and realign the dish. (You could have a situtation where another STB has a better tuner, and make work ok, but no matter what size dish you're using, strength should probably be much higher, as it sounds like you're on the cusp of it being all or nothing, as regards having a picture or not).

    If another STB gives much improved signal, then it could be a problem with the tuner in your STB.


  • #3
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,159 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Ignore the Strenght meter, it's the Signal Quality meter that's more important.


  • #4
    cutback
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭cutback


    Thanks for the advise.

    I hooked my lidl camping box up to the cable today and that wasn't picking up any signal. I would have thought that it should have been registering at least a slight signal (the signal strength was the same with the cable in and out).

    The next thing I'm going to go is test the signal in the attic where the cable comes directly in from the dish. Fingers crossed I'll get a signal off that.


  • #5
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,159 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    It's sounding increasingly likely that your dish is misaligned.


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