phone ringing causes satellite channels to scramble

Randyleprechaun

Friend has following problem with satellite receiver.

When the landline phone rings, it causes the satellite channels to freeze and scrambled comes up on screen. You need to power off and on again to get it to work again.

Setup is as follows:

Feed from dish to box using twin sat cable.
Broadband router other side of wall from Sat receiver, with cordless phone on sa me table.

Thanks

GerardKeating

Randyleprechaun wrote: »

Friend has following problem with satellite receiver.

When the landline phone rings, it causes the satellite channels to freeze and scrambled comes up on screen. You need to power off and on again to get it to work again.

Setup is as follows:

Feed from dish to box using twin sat cable.
Broadband router other side of wall from Sat receiver, with cordless phone on sa me table.

Thanks

Yeah, Cordless phones can do this, how close is the base station to the Sat Box, can you move it further away.

Villan11

You posted this yesterday and it was explained to you that what you are attempting to discuss is illegal, and not permitted to be discussed here!

Randyleprechaun

I haven't posted about a thing illegal here. Just want to try and see if I can eradicate this problem

Kristopherus

Villan11 wrote: »

You posted this yesterday and it was explained to you that what you are attempting to discuss is illegal, and not permitted to be discussed here!

Since when did moving a cordless phone base station become illegal ?

Randyleprechaun

GerardKeating wrote: »

Yeah, Cordless phones can do this, how close is the base station to the Sat Box, can you move it further away.

Base station is the other side of a 4 inch wall..... and directly beside the receiver

Villan11

It's not, but the method used by the user to get premium TV channels is! although as the OP has stated he hasn't mentioned that. I'll leave the rest to the mods.

Kristopherus wrote: »

Since when did moving a cordless phone base station become illegal ?

Kristopherus

Villan11 wrote: »

It's not, but the method used by the user to get premium TV channels is! although as the OP has stated he hasn't mentioned that. I'll leave the rest to the mods.

And you are presuming:rolleyes:

swoofer

is it a sky box either hd or sd and can you say the model number to make it easier?

Peter Rhea

Randyleprechaun wrote: »

When the landline phone rings, it causes the satellite channels to freeze and scrambled comes up on screen. You need to power off and on again to get it to work again.

So the box just locks up & no channels work? Strange that 'scrambled' would come up for FTA channels.*

*I am aware of the other locked thread.

Avns1s

Peter Rhea wrote: »

So the box just locks up & no channels work? Strange that 'scrambled' would come up for FTA channels.*

*I am aware of the other locked thread.

I doubt it would show scrambled on the FTA channels, surely it's be "No signal" if there was something interfering with signal quality which can happen with those cordless phones. More like something interrupting the broadband connection and in that context, locking the other thread was a good call.

Patty O Furniture

Villan11 wrote: »

It's not, but the method used by the user to get premium TV channels is! although as the OP has stated he hasn't mentioned that. I'll leave the rest to the mods.

This reminds me of a Father Ted ep, The Passion of St Tibulus.
But i can't say no more

Peter Rhea

DECT phone works in the frequency range 1880-1900 mHz.

Normally only causes problems for services that fall within the DECT band when downconverted by the LNB, such as those on 12480 mHz. Shouldn't be an issue if decent cable with proper screening is used.