Re: RE: (ukha_d) Re-aligning digi dish.

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

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After reading a few posts on websites, I've arranged for a friend to bring=
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his Digibox over tonight, to test it.

It's under 12 months old, so surely the box is still under warranty?

Unless the wind has blown it, the dish hasn't moved, I have been moving
the=
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box recently, but the cable looks to be OK, and I've done the power off-on=
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trick, not sure about static being the problem, more like the OS needing a=
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reboot. It's not WinCE is it :-)

At 14:52 19/09/00 +0100, you wrote:
>
>I had exactly the same problem a month ago (see previous posting). 
The=20
>wally at
>the 'help'line swore that the dish must have moved, but quite clearly
it=20
>hadn't.
>Eventually I spoke to engineering, who went through a few checks before
>determining that there's a problem with the box.  If it's an Amstrad
box,=
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>it'll
>cost you =A3160 to get fixed, regardless of fault or repair company
(they=
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>all get
>sent to Amstrad).  Check the following:
>
>1. Has the dish moved?
>2. Is the wiring in the co-ax box OK (if you have one)?
>3. power the whole lot off, remove the plug from the socket, count to
30,
>replace it, wait another 2 mins, then restore power.  Apparently
this=20
>dissipates
>any static on the board.
>
>I didn't have any signal strength or quality, so hopefully yours is not
as
>serious.  If there's another house near you with a dish, check it's
positi=
on
>against your own.
>
>Pete
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MIME:stuart@xxxxxxx at INTERNET
>Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 12:19
>To: White, Peter; ukha_d@xxxxxxx at Internet
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re-aligning digi dish.
>
>
>
>My digi box is reporting that no signal is being received. The signal
>strength varies from half to full, but there is no signal quality at
all.
>
>The Sky helpline suggested that I need to get an engineer to re-align
the
>dish, at 50 quid call out. Is there any way I can do this myself?
>
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Stuart Grimshaw
Schoolsnet Ltd                         Special
t: 07976 625221                        Projects
e: sg@xxxxxxx                   Developer
f: 0870 7060260
www.schoolsnet.com
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"It has been claimed that a very large number of monkeys, armed with a
very=
=20
large number of typewriters, would eventually reproduce the great works of=
=20
mankind. It would appear that the internet is well on its way to proving=20
that wrong." - Anonymous