Re: Poor Sky reception yesterday / last night

["Tim Hawes" <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

An update :-)

On Sunday I managed to move my "Scottish" mini-dish to a new
location.
Even though it's not moved very far - less than 8 feet from its last
position - the improvement is staggering.

Whereas immediately before the move I was struggling to get any
"quality" signal at all now, both strength and quality are 60-70%
and
rock solid.

I can only put this down to fewer trees in the way as even the cable
to the digibox is at least 5m longer now and has an additional join.

So, I'm a happy bunny once again, and the kids can get Cbeebies :-)

Cheers,

Tim.


On 7/18/06, Tim Hawes <timsyahoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for the link Georgia.
>
> The Invacom twin LNB I was looking at is still less at CPC, but I see
> Spectrum have some other 0.3dB options for less so I'll check those
> out.
>
> My dish is already larger than "normal". I'm in the
Guildford area and
> have the larger "Scottish" minidish (I can't remember which
way the
> zones are labelled). When I relocate the dish I need to decide whether
> I'm going to keep the bigger minidish or get a circular one with a
> lower noise LNB as it seems that putting a non-Sky universal LNB onto
> an oval minidish isn't the greatest solution...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim.
>
> On 7/18/06, Georgia Thomson <georgia@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > take a look at www.spectrum.uk.com  for your lnbs, they're about
a
> > tenner cheaper than farnell and it's where i got all my satellite
> > stuff from.
> >
> > to be honest, a larger dish will do a LOT more for your signal
issues
> > than a higher quality lnb, only losing a tiny amount wont help if
you
> > still arent catching enough signal to work with.  get yourself a
> > cheap 80cm dish and you should have no problems.
> >
> > Georgia
>