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No Signal! FTA UK channels missing on Ariva 120 & 150.

  • 13-05-2013 5:22pm
    #1
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭


    My folks have these boxes and the FTA UK channels are not coming through except for broken up children's programs on BBC4.

    Is anyone else having these problems?


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  • #2
    exaisle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,676 ✭✭✭exaisle


    No, all working fine.

    Id guess that either your dish is out of alignment or there's some very heavy rain in your area....

    E


  • #3
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    exaisle wrote: »
    No, all working fine.

    Id guess that either your dish is out of alignment or there's some very heavy rain in your area....

    E

    Cork City. It was quite blustery earlier but pretty clear now.


  • #4
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    BBC4 seems to be coming through fine but no other sat channel.

    ITVHD is now in fine but UTV is still gone!
    Channel 5 fine.
    5 USA fine.

    Does that rule out the dish being off focus?


  • #5
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    All gone again. Weird.


  • #6
    Peter Rhea
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Peter Rhea


    Nothing weird about it, I would think. Dish could have moved or water getting in where it shouldn't.

    Maybe it's an old installation or was just poorly done to begin with?


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  • #7
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Peter Rhea wrote: »
    Nothing weird about it, I would think. Dish could have moved or water getting in where it shouldn't.

    Maybe it's an old installation or was just poorly done to begin with?

    Been there for a good few years and was originally installed to get SKY. The reception has been seamless since they hooked back into the sat dish with these combo boxes many months ago.

    You mentioned water. Do you mean it might have gotten in to the LNB?


  • #8
    Peter Rhea
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Peter Rhea


    Not necessarily right inside the lnb, but could have corroded the connections, or got into the cables.


  • #9
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    BBC4, ITVHD, and Channel 5 seem to be coming in intermittently.

    Does that rule out the dish being out of focus?


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    BBC4, ITVHD, and Channel 5 seem to be coming in intermittently.

    Does that rule out the dish being out of focus?
    Not necessarily. Those channels are on Astra 1N and 2F, the newest satellites up there, so they'd be among the strongest signals.


  • #11
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Just did a factory reset and scanned the Astra 2A sat and all the channels came in?


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  • #12
    Pdully
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭Pdully


    I'm having the same problem - all the FTA channels are gone. In clare where it has been poor weatherwise of late too.
    Both Astra 1 and 2 are showing as weak signals, i'm guessing that the satelite was moved by the wind, or maybe the connection fell out of the socket up there. Don't fancy climbing up there in this weather though:P


  • #13
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Pdully wrote: »
    I'm having the same problem - all the FTA channels are gone. In clare where it has been poor weatherwise of late too.
    Both Astra 1 and 2 are showing as weak signals, i'm guessing that the satelite was moved by the wind, or maybe the connection fell out of the socket up there. Don't fancy climbing up there in this weather though:P

    Called back over and got the ladder out this evening. The LNB holder was banjaxed so the LNB and was after rotating away from where it should be. Badly corroded arm from dish too.

    I bodged it in place with duct tape (channels all working fine) and will order an new arm and clamp thing and replace the corroded/broken stuff.


  • #14
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    Pdully wrote: »
    I'm having the same problem - all the FTA channels are gone. In clare where it has been poor weatherwise of late too.
    Both Astra 1 and 2 are showing as weak signals, i'm guessing that the satelite was moved by the wind, or maybe the connection fell out of the socket up there. Don't fancy climbing up there in this weather though:P

    Crikey, it would be some wind if it moved the satellite:D:D:D. I presume its the Dish you are referring to? Check all connections, the skew of the LNB and then re-tune. Only go at the dish, if all the others check out, and only if its safe to do so. If its too high up, get a professional.


  • #15
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Update: The folks lost their signal tonight again. So I call out and up the ladder, LNB is in the same position as yesterday. I tapped it with the screwdriver handle and signal comes back.

    Looks like it's a faulty LNB.


  • #16
    STB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭STB


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Called back over and got the ladder out this evening. The LNB holder was banjaxed so the LNB and was after rotating away from where it should be. Badly corroded arm from dish too.

    I bodged it in place with duct tape (channels all working fine) and will order an new arm and clamp thing and replace the corroded/broken stuff.

    Just replace the dish.

    They come with the quad lnb and fixings etc and are €20 on adverts.ie.

    You wont even have to use the included mount as you can use your existing mount and just replace the dish and lnb part.


  • #17
    alansilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭alansilly


    same thing happened to my parents sky dish a few years ago,was even falling down but it was because 1st day the dish was put up onto the chimney and smoke over the years was corroding the dish,so keep an eye where ye place dish.


  • #18
    Tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,346 ✭✭✭✭Tony


    wow great price :) retail below cost


    STB wrote: »
    Just replace the dish.

    They come with the quad lnb and fixings etc and are €20 on adverts.ie.

    You wont even have to use the included mount as you can use your existing mount and just replace the dish and lnb part.

    https://satellite.ie/



  • #19
    STB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭STB


    Tony wrote: »
    wow great price :) retail below cost

    Hi Tony

    Yes it would seem that people are buying them on mass and selling them and still making a profit.

    China without a doubt. For some time too. Not "genuine" despite the claims, but what is "genuine" these days ?


  • #20
    Tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,346 ✭✭✭✭Tony


    Hi STB, I disagree, something else is going on here, you will notice the guy is also selling WF65 at below normal cost price. Bargain prices though :)

    Sorry for the off topic posts.

    STB wrote: »
    Hi Tony

    Yes it would seem that people are buying them on mass and selling them and still making a profit.

    https://satellite.ie/



  • #21
    STB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭STB


    Tony wrote: »
    Hi STB, I disagree, something else is going on here, you will notice the guy is also selling WF65 at below normal cost price. Bargain prices though :)

    Sorry for the off topic posts.

    Google. "6 SKY Satellite Dishes MK4+Quad Lnb For Sky and FREESAT". £50. They are all over ebay and they are retailers.

    The dishes themselves are sold in joblots of 100 on ebay for 600.


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  • #22
    Tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,346 ✭✭✭✭Tony


    No doubt, but they aint buying from China. I'll PM you as I've gone off topic way too much on this thread.

    Edit: @ STB your pm box is full :-)

    STB wrote: »
    Google. "6 SKY Satellite Dishes MK4+Quad Lnb For Sky and FREESAT". £50. They are all over ebay and they are retailers.

    The dishes themselves are sold in joblots of 100 on ebay for 600.

    https://satellite.ie/



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