Anyone having problems with Sky or Freesat-from-Sky?
Two of my neighbours are. One is an old Sky HD Box with a free viewing
card in, the other I don't know.
Separate independent non-communal satellite dishes.
I'm having no problems with true Freesat.
Central Scotland area.
Just seems unlikely to separate boxes/dishes would fail at the same
time this morning and still off: no satellite signal received / no
lock.
No mention of problems with Sky on their status website.
Owain
Anyone having problems with Sky or Freesat-from-Sky?
Two of my neighbours are. One is an old Sky HD Box with a free viewing card in, the other I don't know.
Separate independent non-communal satellite dishes.
I'm having no problems with true Freesat.
Central Scotland area.
Just seems unlikely to separate boxes/dishes would fail at the same time this morning and still off: no satellite signal received / no lock.
No mention of problems with Sky on their status website.
Owain
On Monday, 24 October 2022 at 21:55:57 UTC+1, Owain Lastname wrote:
Anyone having problems with Sky or Freesat-from-Sky?
Two of my neighbours are. One is an old Sky HD Box with a free viewing
card in, the other I don't know.
Separate independent non-communal satellite dishes.
I'm having no problems with true Freesat.
Central Scotland area.
Just seems unlikely to separate boxes/dishes would fail at the same time >>this morning and still off: no satellite signal received / no lock.
No mention of problems with Sky on their status website.
Owain
Very heavy rain meant we lost F24 briefly yesterday plus a few artefacts
on BBC News 24.
On Monday, 24 October 2022 at 21:55:57 UTC+1, Owain Lastname wrote:
Anyone having problems with Sky or Freesat-from-Sky?
Two of my neighbours are. One is an old Sky HD Box with a free viewing
card in, the other I don't know.
Separate independent non-communal satellite dishes.
I'm having no problems with true Freesat.
Central Scotland area.
Just seems unlikely to separate boxes/dishes would fail at the same time
this morning and still off: no satellite signal received / no lock.
No mention of problems with Sky on their status website.
Owain
Very heavy rain meant we lost F24 briefly yesterday plus a few artefacts
on BBC News 24.
On 25/10/2022 in message <d88c8036-fd47-42a6-8c55-7f917c5b6149n@googlegroups.com> R. Mark
Clayton wrote:
On Monday, 24 October 2022 at 21:55:57 UTC+1, Owain Lastname wrote:
Anyone having problems with Sky or Freesat-from-Sky?
Two of my neighbours are. One is an old Sky HD Box with a free
viewing card in, the other I don't know.
Separate independent non-communal satellite dishes.
I'm having no problems with true Freesat.
Central Scotland area.
Just seems unlikely to separate boxes/dishes would fail at the same
time this morning and still off: no satellite signal received / no
lock.
No mention of problems with Sky on their status website.
Owain
Very heavy rain meant we lost F24 briefly yesterday plus a few
artefacts on BBC News 24.
Same in Alderholt 2 days ago, lost signal completely, it was
absolutely hissing down.
On Monday, 24 October 2022 at 21:55:57 UTC+1, Owain Lastname wrote:
Anyone having problems with Sky or Freesat-from-Sky?
Two of my neighbours are. One is an old Sky HD Box with a free viewing
card in, the other I don't know.
Separate independent non-communal satellite dishes.
I'm having no problems with true Freesat.
Central Scotland area.
Just seems unlikely to separate boxes/dishes would fail at the same time
this morning and still off: no satellite signal received / no lock.
No mention of problems with Sky on their status website.
Owain
Very heavy rain meant we lost F24 briefly yesterday plus a few artefacts
on BBC News 24.
I'm wondering if the rain and indeed in some places wind is the underlying cause, dishes moved, then got water up its coax connection?
I have had to bring in my outdoor thermometer, supposedly waterproof which got full of water that night aand dried it off indoors and had to fit new batteries.
Sounds to me like its at the receiving end.
Brian
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On Monday, 24 October 2022 at 21:55:57 UTC+1, Owain Lastname wrote:
Anyone having problems with Sky or Freesat-from-Sky?
Two of my neighbours are. One is an old Sky HD Box with a free viewing
card in, the other I don't know.
Separate independent non-communal satellite dishes.
I'm having no problems with true Freesat.
Central Scotland area.
Just seems unlikely to separate boxes/dishes would fail at the same time >> this morning and still off: no satellite signal received / no lock.
No mention of problems with Sky on their status website.
Owain
Very heavy rain meant we lost F24 briefly yesterday plus a few artefacts
on BBC News 24.
What's the weather like in the OP's area? Heavy rain and/or rain-bearing clouds nearby? My experience of satellite reception in general is that complete loss of lock is unheard-of
Yes, same here on Sunday evening. However, it's only usually while the
rain is in progress, and sometimes when a thundercloud is 'in the way'.
If the loss of signal continues after thing clear then there are
possibly other factors, such as water getting in the coax etc
On 25/10/2022 13:55, Mark Carver wrote:
Yes, same here on Sunday evening. However, it's only usually while
the rain is in progress, and sometimes when a thundercloud is 'in the
way'. If the loss of signal continues after thing clear then there
are possibly other factors, such as water getting in the coax etc
I've only knowingly experienced loss of satellite signal twice in as
many years due to rain. In one case the rain was so heavy that it was
around 2 inches deep running down the local road. The outages only
lasted around 10 minutes. I do however have a larger zone 2 "sky" type mini-dish in a zone 1 area.
I've seen a lot more distribution of reception due to weather
conditions on terrestrial via the aerial.
Last year I had a partial failure of a LNB due to the ingress of
water. On examination of the LNB the plastic covering the horn had
become brittle and had disintegrated, about quarter of it had fallen
off. The LNB was around 15 years old and in full sunlight (when
available) until around midday.
've only knowingly experienced loss of satellite signal twice in as
many years due to rain. In one case the rain was so heavy that it was
around 2 inches deep running down the local road.
we had another downpour last night. Fortunately, no ill effects, but... Getting a 'ball' cage fitted to the top of the gutter downpipe. Can at least try and stop more leaves, etc, getting washed down it in future.
Jim Lesurf wrote:
we had another downpour last night. Fortunately, no ill effects,
but... Getting a 'ball' cage fitted to the top of the gutter downpipe.
Can at least try and stop more leaves, etc, getting washed down it in future.
They tend to cause clogs at the top, rather than bottom of the downpipe,
then the gutter overflows ...
we had another downpour last night. Fortunately, no ill effects,
but... Getting a 'ball' cage fitted to the top of the gutter downpipe.
Can at least try and stop more leaves, etc, getting washed down it in
future.
They tend to cause clogs at the top, rather than bottom of the downpipe,
then the gutter overflows ...
I'd prefer that to having the muck all over the carpet, and then having to change the carpet!
But that is preferable to the similar
task for the bath wastepipe which usually freezes up over the winter: we
once arrived at the cottage to spend Christmas there, and found the
living room carpet soaking wet because the bath tap had been dripping,
the wastepipe had gradually frozen up, and the bath was now very slowly overflowing and dripping through the bathroom floor into the lounge.
That was a long job to remove the wastepipe from the outside wall and
try to persuade the ice to melt or to ram it through - about six feet of
ice in the pipe...
On 28/10/2022 09:58, NY wrote:
But that is preferable to the similar task for the bath wastepipe which
usually freezes up over the winter: we once arrived at the cottage to
spend Christmas there, and found the living room carpet soaking wet
because the bath tap had been dripping, the wastepipe had gradually
frozen up, and the bath was now very slowly overflowing and dripping
through the bathroom floor into the lounge. That was a long job to remove
the wastepipe from the outside wall and try to persuade the ice to melt
or to ram it through - about six feet of ice in the pipe...
I spent the famous, or infamous, winter of '62/3 in my parent's house in Gloucestershire, and there was a similar problem every day throughout that entire winter with the exterior cast-iron waste-pipe freezing up. I had to clamber up a ladder with a kettle to pour hot water over it before going
to the toilet in the morning. Thereafter, it usually remained free for
the rest of the day, but by next morning it would be frozen up again.
"Java Jive" <java@evij.com.invalid> wrote in message
I spent the famous, or infamous, winter of '62/3 in my parent's house
in Gloucestershire, and there was a similar problem every day
throughout that entire winter with the exterior cast-iron waste-pipe
freezing up. I had to clamber up a ladder with a kettle to pour hot
water over it before going to the toilet in the morning. Thereafter,
it usually remained free for the rest of the day, but by next morning
it would be frozen up again.
I spent the famous, or infamous, winter of '62/3 in my mummy's tummy ;-)
She said she was petrified of slipping and falling in the ice for those
last few months before I was born.
That reminds me of the annual task when we or my parents visited their holiday cottage in Yorkshire in the spring: to remove the leaves that had built up in the gutters/downpipes over the autumn.
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