Re: Poor Sky reception yesterday / last night

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What satellite does Sky use ? When I looked at pickingup Eutelsat for
our place, at 54degN, I needed an 1100 dish & planning permission ...

Chris



Nigel Giddings wrote:

>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 and I am located in London. I have a small gap between some trees
which attenuates the signal. The larger dish compensates for this but I
still have issues in Heavy Rain.
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>However, like you I have experienced signal problems on Sunny days as
well, typically late afternoon onwards?
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>The second dish is a standard small sky dish (38cm?) on a chimney in a
different 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 from heat, I have a slate roof and the dish is in an exposed
position? This would follow how the LNB would heat during the day, I bet it
gets pretty hot?
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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]
>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.
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>Signal strength was 55-60% (a little lower normal for me)
>Signal quality was 20%-0% (much lower than normal)
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>All was fine on Thursday so I'm discounting trees etc. and skies were
>clear blue so no clouds/rain near me at all.
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>I'm wondering if it was some general atmospheric effect, or a problem
>with my box / LNB etc.
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>Thanks,
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>Tim.
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