This weather has realy screwed my tv viewing up

not that i watch much of it , but the only 2 night i do want to

the heavens have opened up and now sky have a technical fault

Grrrr cant even get a single channel

Anyone else having this problem at the mo

 Have you tried switching off at the plug for a few seconds?

hi ya ,

yes tried that .......

i have been told that the dish may be out of line

My signal is terrible lately. Cant get all the channels and ones i like to watch always say theres no signal available.

Its doing my head in.

 Rubbish weather affects my sky too, if it rains really hard or theres a storm the signal is bad or non-existent. The dish is at the bottom of the balcony out of view tho as we aint supposed to have it fixed on ouside of building at all, so that prob dont help either! 

The electric storms that went over the other day caused chaos around SE london, particularly if you were somewhere that got hit by a brownout, which took the service from a degraded signal to a "sod it i can't be arsed" attitude from the box!

we lost the whole of sky for that evening cos of it but it's all fine now.  the surge protector protected the box thankfully, else that'd have popped - are you all sorted now??

C

 i had this happen to mine last year, is it an oldish dish.. They replaced my LNB or whateva it is.

My signal's always crap in bad weather, although it's not doing it as much lately..

If you have a Sky HD dish, there is an issue with faulty capacitors in the power supplies which cause, amongst other things, reception problems.

If you open the box up (not the easiest thing) you can tell whether you have this problem by looking at the capacitors on the PSU and seeing if they are bulging and leaking electrolyte.

I got a refurbished PSU from satcure.co.uk, but if you're good at soldering and not scared of working on mains voltage PSUs, you can replace the capacitors yourself.

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Trying to watch The Wicker Man on ch307 at the moment and Sky's throwing a mental.

I have the HD box so may check the above problem.  I just assumed it may be weather related.

I found it got worse over time, and more and more channels had no signal being received.

In the end, I hired a ladder and spent literally hours at the top of it realigning the dish (not so fun when you don't like heights). No success, so I eventually came accross the following thread on digitalspy

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=727185

Lots more info about the problem.

well its got a bit better , but i may tell them to sod off now

may go to a free view box with a good ariel 

 had this problem earlier, rain was coming out the guttering straight onto the dish

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 had this problem earlier, rain was coming out the guttering straight onto the dish

Snap bud ended up watching some dvds.. as in this weather couldn't do nothing

all you guys playing with your dishes and boxes are wasting your time. these are total service outages most likely attributable to arquiva's satellite relay in amersham. Without overcomplicating things the signal usually leaves me ok (at BBC Broadcast, west london) but fails off-air due to storm activity when it's relayed to Sky, vmtv, setanta, etc. not fun, i admit. specially for me given the frantic phone calls, work-arounds, service reports, etc I have to make.