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Old July 28th 05, 08:49 PM
Dirty Mark
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Default Advice on Picture breaking up in rain

My Sky picture is now breaking up in rain and TCM is now like this all the
time. I have had this in the past with very heavy rain but it is now much
worse. I have an old Grundig Box, which is now 5 years old.

What is the likely cause - satellite dish moving out of position or some
kind problem with the box.

Which is the best way to proceed get Sky to fix it or some other company?

Many thanks




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Old July 28th 05, 09:01 PM
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First, if you can easily access the dish, try re-aligning it, using the
"signal quality" bar graph in digibox menus. Might improve it. Most
likely cause is dish movement over time.

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Old July 28th 05, 10:23 PM
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Sky could charge you £65 to just come and re-align your dish, if your box
wasn't working ;O) they would replace that then align your dish.


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First, if you can easily access the dish, try re-aligning it, using the
"signal quality" bar graph in digibox menus. Might improve it. Most
likely cause is dish movement over time.



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Old July 28th 05, 10:46 PM
Dirty Mark
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This sounds hopeful - what is the procedure - get some ne to watch the
Skydigibox quality chart while somebody elses trys to move the arial
slightly?


"spiney" wrote in message
ups.com...
First, if you can easily access the dish, try re-aligning it, using the
"signal quality" bar graph in digibox menus. Might improve it. Most
likely cause is dish movement over time.



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Old July 30th 05, 05:17 PM
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yes, that's about it. Worth trying.

you can also get a cheap "sat bleeper", which connects into dish
cable, and emits an audio tone, allowing one person alone to realign
dish.

 




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