[OT] How to fit a digital mini dish??

[Robert Chasmer <robert.chasmer@xxxxxxx>]

peter.white@xxxxxxx [mailto:peter.white@xxxxxxx] wrote:
> The cowboy method...
> 
> Find a house near you with a dish, point yours in the same
direction.
> Get a mate to watch the strength meters on the digibox until it
levels
> out at about 75%.  If there's no Sky dishes near you, then I
think
> it's more or less due east at a 13 degree angle, but I'm not
certain.

In the past I've installed a Sky Analogue dish from scratch, and also
replaced the sat cable (CT125) for my Sky Digital so that it was routed
inside the house rather than on the outside wall.  This all worked
fine for
a good year or so.

Recently my Digibox has started to play up.  It says its not recieving
a sat
signal.  If I go to the signal strength page, the signal strength
varies up
and down, with the signal quality at zero.

If I reboot the digibox, it all springs back to life, and I have a
signal
string & quality remaining at about 3/4 (from memory).  This is
all fine,
and then after about 5-10 minutes it dies, and continues to operate as
descibed above.  I have two cable runs to my existing box and get the
same
results with both.

I've noticed that some large trees in the line of sight of the dish
have
grown a fair bit.  So is it the dish that I should try and re-align or
is
the box on its way out.  I don't have a sky sub and only use a FTA
card.  I
want to get it working before I consider Sky+ with a sub and attempt a
DIY
install for that.  Hopefully this would just be a case of swapping out
the
LNB and seting the new box of on auto tune.


Rob

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