No sky signal

[carpmaster]

You would be better off buying an 80cm dish and a new LNB.

An 80cm dish for Sky......... Are you joking or what? That's a bit like hiring the QE2 to take out for a days fishing on the river.

 

[lee32uk]

An 80cm dish for Sky......... Are you joking or what? That's a bit like hiring the QE2 to take out for a days fishing on the river.

Not really.An 80cm dish would give you a picture in very heavy rain, unlike a mini dish that cant cope with a bit of drizzle.The Sky dishes are rubbish at best.

 

[Tesla]

Not really.An 80cm dish would give you a picture in very heavy rain, unlike a mini dish that cant cope with a bit of drizzle.The Sky dishes are rubbish at best.

I find a properly aligned mini dish to only break up in the most heavy of storms, usually hail.

A zone 2 dish would be more suited to compensate for weather and requires more precise alignment so would further benefit.

 

[carpmaster]

Not really.An 80cm dish would give you a picture in very heavy rain, unlike a mini dish that cant cope with a bit of drizzle.The Sky dishes are rubbish at best.

So would a 3.2m meter dish but it's pointless for Sky.

The problem with Sky installations is they are installed by the Sky blokes (or some people DIY) with the crappy little bleeper signal testers and don't have enough rain fade margin.

All these crappy testers do is align the dish for maximum signal. But there's a lot more to it than that. How can you possibly set the LNB skew or check the bit error rate with one of those? You can't is the answer.

This means that every time we get rain a lot of people have problems with Sky reception.

Signal strength isn't as important as signal quality, so it's critical the skew is set correctly even in a domestic installation.

An 80cm dish for Sky reception is pointless. Yes it will work fine, but it's completely over the top unless you are talking about a large SMATV communal system where you want the increased C/N ratio to carry through the system.

 

[Begbie]

So would a 3.2m meter dish but it's pointless for Sky.

The problem with Sky installations is they are installed by the Sky blokes (or some people DIY) with the crappy little bleeper signal testers and don't have enough rain fade margin.

All these crappy testers do is align the dish for maximum signal. But there's a lot more to it than that. How can you possibly set the LNB skew or check the bit error rate with one of those? You can't is the answer.

This means that every time we get rain a lot of people have problems with Sky reception.

Signal strength isn't as important as signal quality, so it's critical the skew is set correctly even in a domestic installation.

An 80cm dish for Sky reception is pointless. Yes it will work fine, but it's completely over the top unless you are talking about a large SMATV communal system where you want the increased C/N ratio to carry through the system.

What other signal testers are you ment to use?

Got a link?

 

[sdfuk]

Did mine with a compass - job done. If you got digital phones whereby you can make an internal call that makes life easier as you can ask you mate to tell you when the signal strength is good.

 

[Butters]

thats what I did, dont know what all the fuss is about. I've set up numerous sky dishes with just a compass. Its not rocket science.

 

[Mark M]

Well if anyone has any problems with their sky I can highly recommend those signal finders off the bay. Got my dish realigned in about 10 mins all for £6!

 

[slothmeister]

i've had the same message a couple of times, only had sky for just under a month, when we spoke to sky they suggested that we change the two signal feeds on the box, just swap them over. Seems to be working fine now.