Lost your Sky signal because of the snow?

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  duckymallard Posts: 13,936

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  21/12/10 - 20:30 #2

  Which is why (living in a snow prone area) I got the engineer to site the dish about 2 feet off the ground.
  
  A lot easier than trying to climb ladders
  
  Although I have had to clear the drifts away from the dish area.

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  Andy Birkenhead Posts: 13,450

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  21/12/10 - 20:35 #3

  duckymallard wrote: »

  Which is why (living in a snow prone area) I got the engineer to site the dish about 2 feet off the ground.
  
  A lot easier than trying to climb ladders
  
  Although I have had to clear the drifts away from the dish area.

  
  Your dish is 2 feet off the ground ( ? ) and you got an engineer in ??

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  b.lever Posts: 1,190

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  21/12/10 - 20:38 #4

  duckymallard wrote: »

  Which is why (living in a snow prone area) I got the engineer to site the dish about 2 feet off the ground.
  
  A lot easier than trying to climb ladders
  
  Although I have had to clear the drifts away from the dish area.

  
  Bit Dificult if your dish is on the roof . only place to recieve a signal /so far been lucky with the snow had plenty of snow but not interferd with the signal

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  sodafountain Posts: 16,863

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  22/12/10 - 08:54 #5

  Andy Birkenhead wrote: »

  Your dish is 2 feet off the ground ( ? ) and you got an engineer in ??

  
  NO, he never said he got an engineer in (to clear the snow).
  
  If you read it again, he says got the engineer to site the dish 2 feet off the ground (when he did the install).
  
  that way, they can clear the snow themselves without using ladders (as all explained in the post) :rolleyes:

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  tso Posts: 25,860

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  22/12/10 - 14:24 #6

  geogan wrote: »

  Easy to fix this problem - it is NOT caused by snow in sky - it is caused by snow SITTING IN FRONT OF YOUR SATELITE DISH LNB! Get a brush and wipe it off the LNB (the box pointing at dish) and your Sky pixelating breakups and "NO SIGNAL" will be instantly fixed! I just did it to mine now...

  
  Thats what i did Saturday:)

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  MartinPickering Posts: 3,711

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  22/12/10 - 15:31 #7

  geogan wrote: »

  Easy to fix this problem - it is NOT caused by snow in sky/QUOTE]
  
  You mean "not always". Snow clouds can and do reduce the signal quite significantly and the only answer, to the temporary "drop-out" caused by this, is a larger dish.

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  joed Posts: 1,369

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  23/12/10 - 00:43 #8

  This happened to me on Saturday night, i tried to dislodge the snow with a stick, but was too high to reach so my wife said throw a snowball at it, after about 10 goes with a lightly packed snowbalI, job done and the picture was back on :cool:

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  SJ_Mental Posts: 16,138

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  23/12/10 - 09:31 #9

  This happened to me Tuesday, Luckily my dish is at ground floor height.
  
  The snow had piled up between the LNB and the middle of the dish.

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  duckymallard Posts: 13,936

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  28/12/10 - 01:51 #10

  sodafountain wrote: »

  NO, he never said he got an engineer in (to clear the snow).
  
  If you read it again, he says got the engineer to site the dish 2 feet off the ground (when he did the install).
  
  that way, they can clear the snow themselves without using ladders (as all explained in the post) :rolleyes:

  
  Thanks mate. Someone understood.

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