Moving up a dish size - how? (Is it easy?)

Hello there...

I am experiencing problems with signal in bad weather.

Reading through what has been posted before in this group it seems I
should have my alignment checked and increase the size of my dish.

Just how easy is it to get a larger dish?

Are they commonly available from local stockists/TV engineers?

Cheers, beaty

Beaty wrote:

I am experiencing problems with signal in bad weather.

Reading through what has been posted before in this group it seems I
should have my alignment checked and increase the size of my dish.

In the UK you will not need a larger dish than the one originally
fitted, unless they fitted the wrong size in the first place.

Your LNB may be getting old or your dish may have moved.

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Hello there...

I am experiencing problems with signal in bad weather.

Reading through what has been posted before in this group it seems I
should have my alignment checked and increase the size of my dish.

Just how easy is it to get a larger dish?

Are they commonly available from local stockists/TV engineers?

Cheers, beaty


I had exactly the same problem with my standard Sky dish. I have trees in
my line of sight and every summer I would lose channels and experience
problems in anything but the most calm weather.
The dish was aligned by a professional and I was told there was nothing I
could do.
So I bought a 60cm dish from eBay. It slipped easily onto the existing
mount and I aligned the dish myself using the digibox set-up screen.
I have had absolutely no problems since, perfect picture and no lost
channels.

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"Beaty" wrote in message
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Hello there...

I am experiencing problems with signal in bad weather.

Reading through what has been posted before in this group it seems I
should have my alignment checked and increase the size of my dish.

Just how easy is it to get a larger dish?

Are they commonly available from local stockists/TV engineers?

Cheers, beaty


I had exactly the same problem with my standard Sky dish. I have trees in
my line of sight and every summer I would lose channels and experience
problems in anything but the most calm weather.
The dish was aligned by a professional and I was told there was nothing I
could do.
So I bought a 60cm dish from eBay. It slipped easily onto the existing
mount and I aligned the dish myself using the digibox set-up screen.
I have had absolutely no problems since, perfect picture and no lost
channels.

I think depends on how high the trees are, I've been in three properties now
where the front of the house (where the dish faces) Sky have fitted the dish
at the back and run the cable over the roof.
This just basically moves the dish further away from the line-of-sight
obstruction.

The only time I did have problems is when a crap installer insisted (During
Winter) that when the trees grew leaves the dish would'nt be effected, After
months of calls to Sky,They got their team to relocate the dish to the back
of the property over-looking the roof.
This has worked at my last and present property too with just the standard
digidish.

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"Beaty" wrote in message
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Hello there...

I am experiencing problems with signal in bad weather.

Reading through what has been posted before in this group it seems I
should have my alignment checked and increase the size of my dish.

Just how easy is it to get a larger dish?

Are they commonly available from local stockists/TV engineers?

Cheers, beaty


I had exactly the same problem with my standard Sky dish. I have trees in
my line of sight and every summer I would lose channels and experience
problems in anything but the most calm weather.
The dish was aligned by a professional and I was told there was nothing I
could do.
So I bought a 60cm dish from eBay. It slipped easily onto the existing
mount and I aligned the dish myself using the digibox set-up screen.
I have had absolutely no problems since, perfect picture and no lost
channels.


I think depends on how high the trees are, I've been in three properties now
where the front of the house (where the dish faces) Sky have fitted the dish
at the back and run the cable over the roof.
This just basically moves the dish further away from the line-of-sight
obstruction.

The only time I did have problems is when a crap installer insisted (During
Winter) that when the trees grew leaves the dish would'nt be effected, After
months of calls to Sky,They got their team to relocate the dish to the back
of the property over-looking the roof.
This has worked at my last and present property too with just the standard
digidish.


How much do they charge for that? I thought "standard installation" was
only a few feet of cable..

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Sue

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"Beaty" wrote in message
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Hello there...

I am experiencing problems with signal in bad weather.

Reading through what has been posted before in this group it seems I
should have my alignment checked and increase the size of my dish.

Just how easy is it to get a larger dish?

Are they commonly available from local stockists/TV engineers?

Cheers, beaty


I had exactly the same problem with my standard Sky dish. I have trees
in my line of sight and every summer I would lose channels and experience
problems in anything but the most calm weather.
The dish was aligned by a professional and I was told there was nothing I
could do.
So I bought a 60cm dish from eBay. It slipped easily onto the existing
mount and I aligned the dish myself using the digibox set-up screen.
I have had absolutely no problems since, perfect picture and no lost
channels.


I think depends on how high the trees are, I've been in three properties
now where the front of the house (where the dish faces) Sky have fitted
the dish at the back and run the cable over the roof.
This just basically moves the dish further away from the line-of-sight
obstruction.

The only time I did have problems is when a crap installer insisted
(During Winter) that when the trees grew leaves the dish would'nt be
effected, After months of calls to Sky,They got their team to relocate
the dish to the back of the property over-looking the roof.
This has worked at my last and present property too with just the
standard digidish.


How much do they charge for that? I thought "standard installation" was
only a few feet of cable..

There was no extra charge Sue but it could because Sky got constant
complaints and even the first Sky installer to come had checked and said the
install was fine (with the dish still at the front)

It was only when threatening to cancel our sub they decided to get an
*investigative team* out (which of course led to them working out the dish
could be re-installed on the back over-looking the roof)

It was really case of leaving it to the cowboys as we'd tried the indians
(joke there being the independent installer was Asian) ;-)

Must admit though I've moved premises twice and phoning Sky,They just
arrange to reinstall the dish for free...Still takes three visits sadly even
though on phoning I've told them they've no chance of getting a signal at
the front, First installer that turns up usually says "Oh ****!, Trees!"

Heh-Heh!, Must take a lot of university studies to work that out ;-)

T.W.