RE: Poor Sky reception yesterday / last night

["Nigel Giddings" <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,

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I have been experiencing similar symptoms.

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I do have a problem with Trees, One of my dishes with a quad LNB is 80cm
an=
d I am located in London. I have a small gap between some trees which
atten=
uates the signal. The larger dish compensates for this but I still have
iss=
ues in Heavy Rain.

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However, like you I have experienced signal problems on Sunny days as
well,=
typically late afternoon onwards=85

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The second dish is a standard small sky dish (38cm?) on a chimney in a
diff=
erent part of the garden. It does suffer attenuation during the summer
when=
trees come into leaf but again this has been worse recently late afternoon=
on Sunny days.

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Speaking to a friend who installs these he thinks the LNBs are suffering
fr=
om heat, I have a slate roof and the dish is in an exposed position=85
This=
would follow how the LNB would heat during the day, I bet it gets pretty h=
ot=85=20

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The problem shows up as break ups on an ordinary sky box connected to
TiVo.=
The 80cm dish is connected to Sky+ which becomes unusable causing picture =
freezing and reboots !

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Nigel

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From: Tim Hawes [mailto:timsyahoo@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 10 June 2006 06:59
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Poor Sky reception yesterday / last night

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Anyone else experience this? It was unwatchable due to picture breakup
in the afternoon and the picture was still pretty jittery by the end
of the Poland game.

Signal strength was 55-60% (a little lower normal for me)
Signal quality was 20%-0% (much lower than normal)

All was fine on Thursday so I'm discounting trees etc. and skies were
clear blue so no clouds/rain near me at all.

I'm wondering if it was some general atmospheric effect, or a problem
with my box / LNB etc.

Thanks,

Tim.

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