Steve Last Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Before I climb on the roof and start waggling the dish, has anyone else lost the sat signal for free channels? Worked OK this time yesterday, turned on in the evening and got a "no signal received" message and zero signal strength. Same today. This is in 84 (N Vaucluse)Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyh4 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 All working perfectly last night and again at 5 o'clock this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suninfrance Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Had at least an hour of fun trying to get onto the computer around 1pm this afternoon. My LiveBox was not registering and after fiddling with wires and starting and re-starting my pc eventually got onto it about 2.15pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derf Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 If you find the dish is rigid and has not moved when you check it, you may need a new LNB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Last Posted March 23, 2006 Author Share Posted March 23, 2006 Its amazing how effective this forum is. 10 minutes after filing my message I tried the set again and all working normally, without anything else being touched! I have about 90% signal strength but nothing showing on the "signal quality" strip - what should this be? Does it matter?? Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 We're not a million miles away from you. The weather conditions can make it very flakey: You just have to shrug your shoulders and accept it. Just hope that it doesn't happen when it's something impt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esperaza Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 slast,The "signal quality" is far more important than "signal strength" and should be as high as possible.You should adjust your dish. not forgetting the LNB rotation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Last Posted March 24, 2006 Author Share Posted March 24, 2006 Very strange... soon after sending the "everything OK after all" it went off again. Currently we get some channels but not others with 90% strength and zero quality reading. I don't understand quite why since surely the signal is coming from the same spot via the same antenna/satellite etc? I can understand why we migt get different quality digital signal on the Freeview system in England, since ITV etc is coming from a different transmitter to BBC and so on, but how come it varies from the same satellite? Does putting a signal booster on the line from the dish help at all? "Puzzled in Puymeras"Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suninfrance Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Steve, what's your weather like at the moment. In Correze if we have heavy rain, particular channels "pixelate" and freeze and then we lose the signal.We had lots of problems when we first moved here to the point where OH thought we'd never get it right. He spent ages up the ladder while I was downstairs saying "yes, no, it's gone again, etc". In a fit of peak he bashed the dish connection with the screwdriver and presto, perfect picture.Only if we get a really heavy downpour (in Correze it KNOWS how to rain) do we lose the signal. Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esperaza Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 slast,You will never get good/consistent results with a zero quality indication.And you may get some programs and not others due to different tps' and polarisations ( horizontal versus vertical) being used and the proper switching of these by your digital receiver.Also, have you tried disconnecting your receiver from the mains, re-connecting it 5 minutes later, then checking the signal quality? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 [quote user="Slast"]Very strange... soon after sending the "everything OK after all" it went off again. Currently we get some channels but not others with 90% strength and zero quality reading. I don't understand quite why since surely the signal is coming from the same spot via the same antenna/satellite etc? I can understand why we migt get different quality digital signal on the Freeview system in England, since ITV etc is coming from a different transmitter to BBC and so on, but how come it varies from the same satellite? Does putting a signal booster on the line from the dish help at all? "Puzzled in Puymeras"Steve [/quote]All of the above points to your dish or LNB arm moving very slightly. You need the alognment adjusting by a minute amount and the locking in place. A signal booster will do nothing for the symptoms you are describing. There is cluster of satellites and the beam alignemnt varies slightly between them. It is probably also worth checking the tightness of the co ax feed into the digibox. Normally you need 50 % plus signal quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Last Posted March 24, 2006 Author Share Posted March 24, 2006 Thank you....... looks like I'll have to climb up on the roof!! We had heavy wet snow a month or so back and that may have moved it a bit. This is the first time it's been used since then. The coax feeds into the boxes are all good, I remade them as part of the troubleshooting and that doesn't seem to have done it. Thanks again, Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 The alternative to the roof is anywhere you can get a signal at roughly 30 degrees. I put up a new dish for French Sat TV on the side of our house becasue it involved less rosk of cracking tiles then going up to the rook for the aerial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deimos Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 In the UK I used to have my dish mounted on the ground (conservation area) but it worked fine) and was well hidden.Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWINKLE Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Slast,Do you have trees directly opposite your sat. dish? Now that trees are starting to bud, the extra growth and foliage can interfere with transmission. This happened to me last Spring and as a result we had to lob the "offending" branches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Last Posted March 29, 2006 Author Share Posted March 29, 2006 Thanks everyone, after a bit of "woggling about" with my wife running in and out to say what was happening I got back a 60% signal qaulity so all OK now- she can watch neighbours again... good tips, thank you all.Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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