Just had sky round and apperently the trees behind my house are the problem - in all fairness they are totaly blocking line of sight.

The guys suggection was to put the dish on a 10 foot mast above the roof line!!!!

How is that gonna help? you move the dish about 1mm and it loses the signal - the wip on the end of a huge pole isn't going to help here!

Might have to try moving the dish higher up (to the apex of the roof from its current 8 foot up from the ground) and see if that works!

Alex

 

Which trees mate, the ones down the alleyway?

Can you not go with virgin cable or something like that?

Either that or i can burn the fucking trees down incognito style.

Ginge

 

Yeah they are the ones - dont want them gone though really.

Could change supplier but I got the full HD thing already,don't want to pay again.

Alex

 

Hmmmmm, those tree's are fecking close i'll say that.

Why not have a word with someone in the other houses that join yours, see if they will let you use their wall to mount the dish on?

Ginge

 

get a bigger dish and/or more sensitive LNB

 

aint going to help if trees are in the way



Alex, is there somwhere further down the garden, where you can get a clear line of sight for your dish, could you mount it there? ie on a pole in the ground, on a shed or fence and run a new cable?

 

i disagree - trees are not solid objects and the waves pass through them to some extent, particularly through the gaps, and the more that you can collect with a bigger dish, the better your chance of good reception.

obviously re-siting the dish is the best option though, or cut the trees

 

call out a lumberjack to remove the bits of tree that are in the way of the dish

this way you will have an intresting feature in the garden that other peole may copy and credit to me as a design classic

"introducing the tree port-hole"

 

its not so much the tree thats normally the issue, it the water, damp, moisture, in the tree / on the leaves that causes the most signal issues

 

you certainly know your stuff when it comes to satellite stuff fil, so i'll bow down to your superior knowledge if you say it won't help

 

No other place to site it.

I could put it on the shed but there would be a house in the way then!!

Alex

 

I have a question for any sky engineers...

I have sky plus had it for years and i need to upgrade to sky hd but i have a problem.

About every 2 weeks i cant record anything on another channel, When i do a signal test signal 2 is always 0. When i go to my dish the wire is always burnt Every single time. No matter how well i do the cutting of the cables and how neat i do it its always always burnt.

Really pissing me off ive done it about 10 times and running out of cable. The engineer just threw the cables over the top of my house i dont know if that make a difference.

Sky wont fit hd until its repaired which they will fix at a cost of course.

Hope someone can help

Cheers

 

To have anything above the roof line usually requires planning permission IIRC

 

its not to say a bigger dish wont make a difference tho, but as with plants / trees unless they are removed, they can only grow bigger / get thicker and you'll be bak in the same boat again after spending out on unnecessary equipment


alex i think your best bet is to speak to your neighbough about the tree, and it just needing a trim, tell them you'll get rid of any mess, pay costs etc

 

if you need any tree work done, i have used jonathon from fernoak and he was very good don't know if he'll come out that far

www.fernoaktreesurgeons.co.uk

 

i had the same problem just over the past few days

but swapping the cables over on the set box seems to have solved the problem

i'll let you know in a fwe weeks if it's come back or not, but have you tried to change the lnb first?

 

im not sure how it works this UHF, but im guessing you must have a loose or wet connection if its burning out. Wire it again and wrap a good bit of self ilmalugating(sp)tape round the plug.

 

The trees are on a tiny bit of park land - and I can't see the council and the neigbours agreeing to chopping them down. Trimming them won't do a thing.



Gutted bye bye sky I guess