Wind & Rain Interference

Nero

Does anyone else expierience alot of picture and sound interference when it is either raining heavilly outside or very windy? It is really annoying these days with all the bad weather we are getting, I have ended up watching RTE most nights as it is just unwatchable. The kids are going absolutly bonkers during the day not being able to watch Nick Jr.

What can I do, the dish seems to be as stable as it can be ???

ixtlan

What's your signal strength like?

Press services-> 4 -> 6

Make sure strength and quality are reasonably high.

I'm probably becoming known as the guy paranoid about the dish on his chimney but actually I have only lost the signal once due to bad weather, and that was an extraordinary downpour.

If your reception is dropping, then there must be something wrong. Maybe the dish has moved, or the LNB is faulty, or even the digibox.

Perhaps you will soon be able to comment on my query about repair costs!

Remember that wind damage is not covered under warranty, and you might possibly be better calling an independent rather than Sky. Read the repair cost thread.

Ix.

chernobyl

No matter how hard it rains we never have any probs even during the last few days, which is the heaviest rain i have ever seen.

You can see my strength/quality in the attachment, and make your comparisons.

John mac

No problems here! That includes snow last night.

DMC

Chernobyl, thats about as good as mine gets, and I'm not complaining.

Gadgie

The severe winds that were blowing down here on Monday night knocked my dish out of alignment and I kept getting MPEG errors and the signal strength and quality bars were about 30%.

Upon returning home this evening I saw:

http://www.iol.ie/~pobtvs/digibox1.jpg

and

http://www.iol.ie/~pobtvs/digibox2.jpg



Glenn

bkehoe

Never got any problems here no matter what the weather is like.

Brendan

chernobyl

I would try to align the dish yourself during the day, im sure you have a neighbour with a mini dish to offer you a rough guide to direction.

go on..align it yourself, its very easy.

Gadgie

Originally posted by chernobyl
I would try to align the dish yourself during the day, im sure you have a neighbour with a mini dish to offer you a rough guide to direction.

I have a whole estate full of them...

go on..align it yourself, its very easy.

That's what I thought until this afternoon... I'll try again tomorrow. Well I'll have to because my bones will have been dug up, experimented on by aliens and me cloned before I pay €108 for a re-alignment. [1]

Glenn

[1] Having said that, if all that happened I still wouldn't pay it.

Gadgie

Originally posted by bkehoe
Never got any problems here no matter what the weather is like.

I hadn't either but the wind was *very* fierce. It knocked my UHF aerial askew too but that's easy enough fixed.

Glenn

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by Glennus
the wind was *very* fierce. It knocked my UHF aerial askew

that happened to my whole road the other night and the wind very kindly blew my aerial in the direction of Dunmore East. now the reception is excellent

the channels which cause the problems for me during strong wind or heavy rain are Kerrang!, Magic, Smash Hits and FOX News. i haven't noticed any others. and it is really annoying when Kerrang! goes :mad: . and when we had ITV via Other Channels they went bad during strong winds or heavy rain also

chernobyl

....and they are all on the same TP Mossy.

Gadgie

Originally posted by Mossy Monk

that happened to my whole road the other night and the wind very kindly blew my aerial in the direction of Dunmore East. now the reception is excellent

Unfortunately for me, I live there

I tend not to watch those channels anyway, because the picture quality is awful and it's a 4:3 crop of the Sky feeds. To be honest I'd rather have the old analogue Welsh channels, at least then you'd get semi-widescreen, NICAM sound and teletext, even if the picture did go a bit grainy sometimes.

Glenn

(sorry if I only seem to be complaining but it's just been one of those days :-/)

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by Glennus
I'd rather have the old analogue Welsh channels, at least then you'd get semi-widescreen, NICAM sound and teletext, even if the picture did go a bit grainy sometimes.

luckily i get those too. i don't know how i would cope without S4C though
:rolleyes:
to be fair on S4C, it is good if you miss something on Channel 4

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by chernobyl
....and they are all on the same TP Mossy.

that explains it then. either my dish needs a nudge or my digibox needs a kick

Lennoxschips

Buy a proper dish, it will solve all your problems!

chernobyl

Originally posted by Lennoxschips
Buy a proper dish, it will solve all your problems!

Sure the mini dish is not all singing quality but it is designed to do its role within a certain tolerance level which is exceeded by cowboy installers.
no matter how strong the wind blows, a mini dish should not become mis aligned, the surface area + the fact that its a mesh dish means that it does not generate much load on its mount.

I bet most dish problems can be retraced back to a poor installation.