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Sky boxes and snow?
BillieTheBot
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Has anyone elses stopped working?
We have a Sky + box in our living room and two normal Sky boxes in two other rooms.
None of them are working and a message is coming up saying "no satellite signal is being received". Just wondering if thats normal? I didn't realise the snow could do that!
Bad wind and rain has made them go a bit fuzzy and stuff in the past but they've never just not worked! Just wondering whether I should ring Sky? Not that I'm that bothered because I don't really want to watch TV today but yanno!!!!!!!
We have a Sky + box in our living room and two normal Sky boxes in two other rooms.
None of them are working and a message is coming up saying "no satellite signal is being received". Just wondering if thats normal? I didn't realise the snow could do that!
Bad wind and rain has made them go a bit fuzzy and stuff in the past but they've never just not worked! Just wondering whether I should ring Sky? Not that I'm that bothered because I don't really want to watch TV today but yanno!!!!!!!
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like i said, its been affected by wind and rain before but not like this.
seems a bit weird snow would completely cut it all out as its just sitting happily on the dish, it isn't shaking it or anything.
mmm, will try and somehow brush the snow off it!
bloody sky :grump:
If you were using a dish with power on the scale of the Arecibo array then no, snow wouldn't be much of an issue. On a domestic dish trying to get a signal into space....needs all the help it can get!
To be fair the dish is just recieving a signal, not broadcasting one, but the point is that the snow gets in the way.
Both are covered in snow and icicles.
I am cut off from the outside world mostly.
If I set fire to my house theres no emergency services could get here. ...no doctors no nothing.
I'm well stocked and thoroughly enjoying being marooned.
I've been told tha if the dish is seven years old and more ...water can get into the cable and it has to be rewired.
Isn't Skive the man for this?
i've brushed the snow off the dish, but to no avail. ahh well iplayer and 40d it is then.
Snow will increase reflection from any recepptive device such as a dish or arial. best thing you can do is get a top of the range dish or arial and cover it with a non stick spray.
As for water getting into the cable, it depends on the quality of the installation. Water can and does cause corrosion resulting in dry joints and cable damage, outside cable can suffer frost damage because water is one of those special compounds that expands when it freezes. It's what fuck the roads up. Doubt it's any of that though.
Snow and heavy rain will fuck up you reception.