Tuner Overload message on Satelite free to air

feardeas

Hi

I have a walker combi box 645TS-HD. All going fine until this evening when the satelite system went on the blink with the message tuner overload.

Just wondering if theres anything a novice like me can do. Or should i ring the crowd that installed it. The dish is a sky dish that is going on 6 years old. The lads said that it might last a year or two given the rust.

Any ideas appreciated.

winston_1

To my mind tuner overload means too much signal. But I guess Walker actually mean short circuit coax to the dish. Probably caused by poorly fitted screw on F connectors.

Irish Steve

Or mechanical damage to the coax that's allowed water to get into the cable, which has either shorted it out somewhere along the route, or water has tracked down the cable till its reached the F connector on the back of the receiver.

If the cable goes over the edge of the dish, or a bracket, or the guttering, those are prime suspect places for the insulation to get worn off over time by movement in the wind, but finding the location to stop the problem can be a challenge if the cable is high above ground,

A short term fix may be to find the damage and wrap the cable in the area with self amalgamating tape, but in the longer term you may end up having to get the cable replaced,