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Old 16-12-2010, 20:49
germanycalling
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Both week 10 Apprentice and also You're Fired series recordings are missing. Not failed, totally missing. They are recorded on different days. No being able to think of an obvious reason I wonder what would happen if there was no signal due to heavy snow. Would that give a failed to record "unknown reason" (everybody's favourite message ) or would you get nothing at all as in my case? Week 11 the interviews is present so I imagine the series link is OK. Any thoughts folks?
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Old 16-12-2010, 22:12
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Both week 10 Apprentice and also You're Fired series recordings are missing. Not failed, totally missing. They are recorded on different days. No being able to think of an obvious reason I wonder what would happen if there was no signal due to heavy snow. Would that give a failed to record "unknown reason" (everybody's favourite message ) or would you get nothing at all as in my case? Week 11 the interviews is present so I imagine the series link is OK. Any thoughts folks?
Midsomer Murders failed for me yesterday, 'unknown reason' so I cancelled the series link then reset it. Today it just wasn't there, no reason given. We had no snow at that time, although we've had some since.
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Old 17-12-2010, 11:09
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I believe Yes if there was no signal at the scheduled start time.

You only get a failed recording if something interferes 1/2 way through.

I lost channels 135 upwards briefly yesterday in the densest of blizzards, (cured by knocking a little snow off the LNB which upped the signal enough to restore them).

However, my lower channels were all perfect. I've said this on here many times before, best way to achieve weather resistance is a good LNB and a LARGE dish. The larger the dish, the better it is at pulling in weak signals. I'm on 85cm BTW (in Yorkshire).

I'm currently on a clear dish but think next time I might switchover to a Orbital Aluminium dish as I've heard these may have the highest gain of any dish on the market ( available in 80cm & 1m).
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Old 17-12-2010, 18:20
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I believe Yes if there was no signal at the scheduled start time.

You only get a failed recording if something interferes 1/2 way through.

I lost channels 135 upwards briefly yesterday in the densest of blizzards, (cured by knocking a little snow off the LNB which upped the signal enough to restore them).

However, my lower channels were all perfect. I've said this on here many times before, best way to achieve weather resistance is a good LNB and a LARGE dish. The larger the dish, the better it is at pulling in weak signals. I'm on 85cm BTW (in Yorkshire).

I'm currently on a clear dish but think next time I might switchover to a Orbital Aluminium dish as I've heard these may have the highest gain of any dish on the market ( available in 80cm & 1m).
I am using an 85 cm dish in S Yorkshire, its on a ground mount, 2 weeks ago we lost all signal I went out to check the dish only the top third was visable. It was a delicate digging out job but safer than climbing on a ladder.
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Old 18-12-2010, 10:49
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Only the "wrong" type of snow
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