sky dish mysterious signal?.

[butchyboy]

hi guys realigned my sky dish few months ago and all was good,but we had a storm few weeks back and few days later i went to check slysports etc and no signal.but tryed it next day and it was working fine.
tryed before the match tonight and no signal,so checked at halftime here and all good am watching the match on tnt sports now and signal is fine.

how come its working now and come later or tomorrow etc it be saying no signal.

 

[manic01]

hi guys realigned my sky dish few months ago and all was good,but we had a storm few weeks back and few days later i went to check slysports etc and no signal.but tryed it next day and it was working fine.
tryed before the match tonight and no signal,so checked at halftime here and all good am watching the match on tnt sports now and signal is fine.

how come its working now and come later or tomorrow etc it be saying no signal.

Water ingress in sat cable most likely, or lnb on way out.

 

[butchyboy]

Water ingress in sat cable most likely, or lnb on way out.

saying that im not sure if i put amalgamating tape around the f connector,i might have just pulled down the sleeve on lnb over the f connector.
i will have to get the ladder out,i wonder if its not got amalgamating tape on it now,can i still go ahead and put it on it as it is ?.

 

[barney115]

Fog can certainly reduce or kill signal we got lot of that here past few days ,
also on Sky Dishes they are cheap and of Zero quality
but could well be LNB on the way out i agree they are usually scrap 0.3db trash ,
i'd for sure try put new F Connectors and cut back ends of your cable in case of any water leakages
both at the dish and at receiver end if required .
Dish could well have very slightly moved and now is leaning back into a signal but with any wind might well be springing back out of signal
could put a sat meter on it see if signal is bouncing ?

 

[manic01]

saying that im not sure if i put amalgamating tape around the f connector,i might have just pulled down the sleeve on lnb over the f connector.
i will have to get the ladder out,i wonder if its not got amalgamating tape on it now,can i still go ahead and put it on it as it is ?.

If it has water ingress you will just be sealing it in. If you have enough cable, just cut the last few inches off and refit f conn.

 

[butchyboy]

Fog can certainly reduce or kill signal we got lot of that here past few days ,
also on Sky Dishes they are cheap and of Zero quality
but could well be LNB on the way out i agree they are usually scrap 0.3db trash ,
i'd for sure try put new F Connectors and cut back ends of your cable in case of any water leakages
both at the dish and at receiver end if required .
Dish could well have very slightly moved and now is leaning back into a signal but with any wind might well be springing back out of signal
could put a sat meter on it see if signal is bouncing ?

no meter here im afraid barney,but watching the whole 2nd half of match on tnt and signal fine no pixelation or signal loss at all.

 

[butchyboy]

If it has water ingress you will just be sealing it in. If you have enough cable, just cut the last few inches off and refit f conn.

will try that,thanks m8ty.

 

[butchyboy]

been working fine since i started this thread,so have not gone up the ladder,to cold for ladders and slobbering with dishes lol

best time for dish work is in the summer,but of course ya never get dish trouble in the warm weather lol