Sky Dropping out (No Signal Being Received)

Millay · 08-12-2006, 14:14

I have been looking round the internet today, as both my parents and my digi-box are suffering with intermittent channel loss, now nowing the bad weather recently i had my dish and signal checked by an ex sky engineer and everything is in order, also when i look on the signal test screen i have good level and quality.

Im wondering if this is perhpas been caused by either a problem at skys end or with a software update etc.

There seem to be other people wondering about this problem but no real concensious on what is causing this.

So my question is is anyone else getting a no satellite signal being received message or anything like this?

Paul · 08-12-2006, 16:42

If signal is good but the channels are not there then it could be the LNB as this is what went on our dish. Signal was full strength but we couldn't get any channels.

iain_herts · 08-12-2006, 19:57

hi millay are the any trees in direct line of the dish and does it happen only in bad weather or at any time.

if u would like to rule out a LNB problem give me a pm and i'll send u a LNB

TheBlueRaja · 28-12-2006, 00:21

Same problem here at the moment and also some people are discussing this at AVforums and DigitalSpy.

I can have issues with No signal on BBC1 2 and ITV, but if i flick to Channel 4, 5 or Sky One etc its OK.

Soemthing's up i think.

poolking · 31-12-2006, 23:22

Does anyone else have signal problems when its bad weather? I have this everytime there is bad weather, wind and rain here at the moment, the picture is freezing up and then getting no signal being received on the screen.

Its stabilized again.

dragon · 31-12-2006, 23:53

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Originally Posted by poolking

Does anyone else have signal problems when its bad weather? I have this everytime there is bad weather, wind and rain here at the moment, the picture is freezing up and then getting no signal being received on the screen.

Its stabilized again.

its that 36thou km trip though all them clouds and rain that causes the weak signal

Ours is actally quite stable even in the bad weather, but then i have a newer Digibox not sure if that helps (its a thompson DSI4214 i think)

**Paul M** · 01-01-2007, 02:30

We lost our signal for a few minutes in the really heavy rain earlier, but fine otherwise.

06-01-2007, 00:17

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Originally Posted by dragon

its that 36thou km trip though all them clouds and rain that causes the weak signal

Ours is actally quite stable even in the bad weather, but then i have a newer Digibox not sure if that helps (its a thompson DSI4214 i think)

Its only 18000km each way! The satellite actually recieves, and remodulates onto a different frequency the signal sent to it., i.e. the uplink frequency is different to the downlink.
I've seen losses with Astra2/Eurobird 3m recieve dishes with very heavy rain. I've also seen the uplink power wound up in order to melt the snow forming on a heated Uplink dish!

The weather has no respect for man and his toys!

dragon · 06-01-2007, 00:24

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Originally Posted by Creative

Its only 18000km each way! The satellite actually recieves, and remodulates onto a different frequency the signal sent to it., i.e. the uplink frequency is different to the downlink.
I've seen losses with Astra2/Eurobird 3m recieve dishes with very heavy rain. I've also seen the uplink power wound up in order to melt the snow forming on a heated Uplink dish!

The weather has no respect for man and his toys!

ok so i was only a few thousend km out