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



Robert Chasmer wrote:

> 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.

You could have water inside the CT125.  This seems to be the most common
problem amongst satellite installations.  Did you put a (weather) seal
around the F-connector at the LNB end?

> 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.

LNB's do not fail just like that (mine has got a broken plastic cap with a
plastic bag around it to seal it again) and has been working flawless for
the last 3 years.

Q.

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