Satellite dish and conservatory

On Apr 20, 10:56 am, (Peter Hayes) wrote:
Lawrence Zarb wrote:
UPDATE
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To date I have:

Replaced LNB (twice)
Move Satellite dish (although still over the conservatory roof)
Replaced Satellite receiver
Replaced ALL Cabling

Basically All kit and cabling has been replaced.

One strange thing though...The cable runs from th dish into the lift
where there is a joint. If I connect my now redundant receiver in the loft
it works fine!!

Replace the entire run of cabling with one length, no joints.

Or replace the joint connector with an inline amplifier, £6 on eBay.
Search for amplifier in Satellite/ Cable & Freeview Finder.

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Immunity is better than innoculation.

Peter

I already had an inline amplifier fitted, which I have now removed.
At the moment the signal strength and quality is about 50%, as per the
skybox signal quality page. Now when I refit the amplifier I lose all
channels..

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On Apr 20, 10:56 am, (Peter Hayes) wrote:
Lawrence Zarb wrote:
UPDATE
------

To date I have:

Replaced LNB (twice)
Move Satellite dish (although still over the conservatory roof)
Replaced Satellite receiver
Replaced ALL Cabling

Basically All kit and cabling has been replaced.

One strange thing though...The cable runs from th dish into the lift
where there is a joint. If I connect my now redundant receiver in the loft
it works fine!!

Replace the entire run of cabling with one length, no joints.

Or replace the joint connector with an inline amplifier, £6 on eBay.
Search for amplifier in Satellite/ Cable & Freeview Finder.

I already had an inline amplifier fitted, which I have now removed.
At the moment the signal strength and quality is about 50%, as per the
skybox signal quality page. Now when I refit the amplifier I lose all
channels..

Faulty amplifier?

I still believe your best option is to replace the cabling with one
continuous length of CT100, boring that it might be.

Peter

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On Apr 20, 10:56 am, (Peter Hayes) wrote:
Lawrence Zarb wrote:
UPDATE
------

To date I have:

Replaced LNB (twice)
Move Satellite dish (although still over the conservatory roof)
Replaced Satellite receiver
Replaced ALL Cabling

Basically All kit and cabling has been replaced.

One strange thing though...The cable runs from th dish into the lift
where there is a joint. If I connect my now redundant receiver in the
loft
it works fine!!

Replace the entire run of cabling with one length, no joints.

Or replace the joint connector with an inline amplifier, £6 on eBay.
Search for amplifier in Satellite/ Cable & Freeview Finder.

--

Immunity is better than innoculation.

Peter

I already had an inline amplifier fitted, which I have now removed.
At the moment the signal strength and quality is about 50%, as per the
skybox signal quality page. Now when I refit the amplifier I lose all
channels..

What, do you mean you have an in-line amp on the dish cable? That's likely
to give the receiver indgestion unless the cable is very long. I'd expect it
to cause a great reduction in signal quality.

Bill

The amplifier was removed along time ago....

Throughout my investigations I've occassionally refitted it to see if
it make any imporviements, but it just seems to affected the other
channels, probable too strong a signal

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The amplifier was removed along time ago....

Throughout my investigations I've occassionally refitted it to see if
it make any imporviements, but it just seems to affected the other
channels, probable too strong a signal


It is a *satellite* amplifier and not an aerial amplifier, right?

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I have a sky digital setup in the UK.

I am having problems with my dish when I am trying to view INI on
transponder 11.662/H Sky channel 767.

The dish is located over a polycarbonate conservatory roof. If I line
up the dish to wnable this channel to be received, I find a few hours
later the channel is no longer available. (Sky box says that there is
no satellite signal being received).

I have found that if I now open my kitchen door to the conservatory
(This door being directly below the dish), I find that the channel
becomes available again..It seems that the door is acting like some
sort of aerial!!

The dish is located near the first floor bedroom window...

Does anyone have any explanation for this behaviour?

"Superaffiliate7.com" wrote in message
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Sounds as if you installed it after eating poor quality heath food
products or SPAM.

Superaffiliate7.com wrote:
At www.superaffiliate7.com you will find a web site oriented towards Heath
products - home harware such as Tv, compuer ect...
other Affiliates are related to join a satellite TV netwark, or download
commercial Movies.

wrote in message
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I have a sky digital setup in the UK.

I am having problems with my dish when I am trying to view INI on
transponder 11.662/H Sky channel 767.

The dish is located over a polycarbonate conservatory roof. If I line
up the dish to wnable this channel to be received, I find a few hours
later the channel is no longer available. (Sky box says that there is
no satellite signal being received).

I have found that if I now open my kitchen door to the conservatory
(This door being directly below the dish), I find that the channel
becomes available again..It seems that the door is acting like some
sort of aerial!!

The dish is located near the first floor bedroom window...

Does anyone have any explanation for this behaviour?





Do you use a DECT phone?

If so, it is likely that the door is altering the radiation pattern of
the phone base station. DECT phones affect certain channels but it is
not always easy to say which ones because Sky swap the transponder
allocation so often.

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Superaffiliate7.com wrote:


Do you use a DECT phone?

If so, it is likely that the door is altering the radiation pattern of the
phone base station. DECT phones affect certain channels but it is not
always easy to say which ones because Sky swap the transponder allocation
so often.


You may not have solved his problems but you've certainly cured mine!. a
problem that's been plaguing me for months, which was breakup on all of the
Sky music channels.

My Panasonic receiver (which I have replaced along with almost everything
else) is connected to a 90 cm dish with a Sharp 0.3db LNB via CT100 cable,
signal strength and quality shows around 95%.

The dish is mounted on the back of my garage close to the house and using a
'clino master' showed that from the point of view of elevation the apex of
the roof, along with neighbouring trees, is a very close run thing, in fact
I got so fed up that I had given up using that group of channels altogether,
the phone must be 15 feet away from the receiver and nowhere near the dish
or wiring, however out of curiosity I unpluged the wall-wart and guess what?
rock solid pictures, Thanks!

You may not have solved his problems but you've certainly cured mine!. a
problem that's been plaguing me for months, which was breakup on all of
the Sky music channels.

For once you can thank the spammer foe re-activating a 3 year old thread!
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Graham.

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