Put Watchdog on quick!

Mike Henry wrote:
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Bill Wright wrote:
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Nice harness he was wearing, as they pointed out, but what did he attach
it too?
What a load of arse!

Bill
Yeah, that silicone around the hole being missing really affects Setanta
reception.
The guy was just trying to be clever. "I'm the big ****in' expert!"

Surely he was just in the middle of listing the catalogue of horrors that
is part of many installations carried out by Sky, but then got cut off?
It's true that the brick was blown, the hole wasn't sealed, the dish only
had two bolts etc. I'm delighted that that part of the sentence survived
the editing process, and hopefully as a result of it people will be a bit
more wary of shoddy Sky installers in future.

Perhaps the problem was he was cut-off mid-sentence, and the editing may
have made him sound more pompous than he was. The bit about Eurobird being
in a different location to Asda 2A/B/C/D wasn't explained simply enough,
and would have been far clearer with a simple graphic (enhanced in the
style of "Sky At Night" graphics) IMHO.

Interesting ladder to use.
Not exactly industrial grade was it?

Agreed.

Was at a customers house today where they where getting poor Setanta
reception. As it turned out the box was faulty and dish was fine. Bad
tuner.

Setanta had talked him through a few things then told him that he would
need to contact a local installer to check the dish/box.

On Watchdog they'd been telling people who spent a fortune hanging on the
phone that they would "boost the signal to their box" - this piece of
absurdity went unchallenged by all the experts later on. :-(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/...nce_viewi.html

Comment 25 "As a Sky Engineer.......2

Richard

I missed this, but a friend was reading over my shoulder yesterday, and he
suggested I should ask Glen Miller Aerials if they only sell stuff and
services when they are 'In the Mood' He is much more steeped in history than
I, but I imagine you have heard this pun before.... many times!

Brian

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"Glenn Millar - TV Aerials" wrote in message
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Mike Henry wrote:
In , "Bill Wright"
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"Glenn Millar - TV Aerials" wrote in
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Bill Wright wrote:
"Bill" wrote in message
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Nice harness he was wearing, as they pointed out, but what did he
attach
it too?
What a load of arse!

Bill
Yeah, that silicone around the hole being missing really affects
Setanta
reception.
The guy was just trying to be clever. "I'm the big ****in' expert!"

Surely he was just in the middle of listing the catalogue of horrors that
is part of many installations carried out by Sky, but then got cut off?
It's true that the brick was blown, the hole wasn't sealed, the dish only
had two bolts etc. I'm delighted that that part of the sentence survived
the editing process, and hopefully as a result of it people will be a bit
more wary of shoddy Sky installers in future.

Perhaps the problem was he was cut-off mid-sentence, and the editing may
have made him sound more pompous than he was. The bit about Eurobird
being
in a different location to Asda 2A/B/C/D wasn't explained simply enough,
and would have been far clearer with a simple graphic (enhanced in the
style of "Sky At Night" graphics) IMHO.


Well since Sky are members of the CAI and Kevin is the CAI's inspector,
surely he should be conducting an investigation into Sky, Sky's
installers, their workmanship and whom they use as subcontractors.

Glenn...

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"Glenn Millar - TV Aerials" wrote in message
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Well since Sky are members of the CAI and Kevin is the CAI's inspector,
surely he should be conducting an investigation into Sky, Sky's
installers, their workmanship and whom they use as subcontractors.

Good idea! But have you ever known the CAI kick anyone out for bad work?

Bill

Brian Gaff wrote:
I missed this, but a friend was reading over my shoulder yesterday, and he
suggested I should ask Glen Miller Aerials if they only sell stuff and
services when they are 'In the Mood' He is much more steeped in history than
I, but I imagine you have heard this pun before.... many times!

Brian


Very good...

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Bill Wright wrote:
"Glenn Millar - TV Aerials" wrote in message
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Well since Sky are members of the CAI and Kevin is the CAI's inspector,
surely he should be conducting an investigation into Sky, Sky's
installers, their workmanship and whom they use as subcontractors.

Good idea! But have you ever known the CAI kick anyone out for bad work?

Bill



No.

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- TV Aerials wrote:
Bill Wright wrote:
"Glenn Millar - TV Aerials" wrote in
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Well since Sky are members of the CAI and Kevin is the CAI's
inspector, surely he should be conducting an investigation into Sky,
Sky's installers, their workmanship and whom they use as
subcontractors.

Good idea! But have you ever known the CAI kick anyone out for bad work?

Bill



No.

but the NFAC did ;-)

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Mike Henry wrote:
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Perhaps the problem was he was cut-off mid-sentence, and the editing may
have made him sound more pompous than he was. The bit about Eurobird being
in a different location to Asda 2A/B/C/D wasn't explained simply enough,
and would have been far clearer with a simple graphic (enhanced in the
style of "Sky At Night" graphics) IMHO.

Why a graphic? Eurobird is in the sky, ASDA is down the road :-)

Oops! :-)

In all honesty, although the item had a lot of unnecessary padding, I
think that Watchdog dealt with the problem pretty well. The missing
sealing and the use of only two bolts were signs of a sloppy or rushed
installation. The fact that the dish was not optimised for the Eurobird
satellite was probably more a lack of installer experience (and maybe
also a lack of suitable test equipment). Maybe they should have quickly
summarised this at the end. They should also have lambasted the Setanta
guy for them not having the sense to make the help desk people aware of
the most likely cause of the trouble.
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Ian

"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
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In all honesty, although the item had a lot of unnecessary padding, I
think that Watchdog dealt with the problem pretty well. The missing
sealing and the use of only two bolts were signs of a sloppy or rushed
installation. The fact that the dish was not optimised for the Eurobird
satellite was probably more a lack of installer experience (and maybe also
a lack of suitable test equipment).

You can't really differentiate between the satellites to a meaningful extend
with a Sky dish.

Bill