just having rain and winds -- should this effect the sky to say "no 
satellite signal being received"

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On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:46:24 GMT, "jo"  wrote:

>just having rain and winds -- should this effect the sky to say "no 
>satellite signal being received"

Only if there is a problem with your installation e.g. dish not properly aligned, cable problem etc.
You should never receive the no signal message in poor weather unless it's something like the dish
is under a foot of snow.

When the wind & rain stops you need to get the dish etc checked out. It's possible that the
alignment was a little off & while that was OK in the sunshine in heavy rain the signal is too low.
More likely is that the dish wasn't fixed securely & that the wind has been strong enough to move
the dish.
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Even with a perfectly aligned dish you will get picture break up but
only in the heaviest of cloud bursts or snow storms.
I have a 45cm, a 60 cm and an 80cm dish in the south of England, all
perfectly aligned. I have even seen the pic break up with the 80cm but
it was raining so hard that you could hardly see more than a few
metres.
It can be a good guide as to a storm approaching from the South east,
even before it actually hits.
Normal rain shouldn't be a problem even with the small dish, if it is
accurately aligned.

As an independent installer, I find that more problems are caused by
the F plugs at the dish being loose than almost anything else. I don't
think the majority of Sky installers ever use a spanner. Hand tight is
not good enough as it is often the inner core of the cable that comes
up to the inside of the socket first and the plug seems tight. But as
it compresses in warmer weather, the plug becomes loose causing
picture break up and lack of LNB band and polarity switching.

I am quite sure it makes a mint for the problem-solving call-out dept.

If you didn't install the dish yourself, just check, you will be
supprised. (They are often loose at the receiver and wall plates as
well)

we were in the middle of a tornado at the time -- which might account for 
it??

It cut a path 15 yards wide and about 1/2 mile long just up the road...
the rain was  horizontal sheets..

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"widgitt"  wrote in message 
news:1190679502.386842.276760@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> Even with a perfectly aligned dish you will get picture break up but
> only in the heaviest of cloud bursts or snow storms.
> I have a 45cm, a 60 cm and an 80cm dish in the south of England, all
> perfectly aligned. I have even seen the pic break up with the 80cm but
> it was raining so hard that you could hardly see more than a few
> metres.
> It can be a good guide as to a storm approaching from the South east,
> even before it actually hits.
> Normal rain shouldn't be a problem even with the small dish, if it is
> accurately aligned.
>
> As an independent installer, I find that more problems are caused by
> the F plugs at the dish being loose than almost anything else. I don't
> think the majority of Sky installers ever use a spanner. Hand tight is
> not good enough as it is often the inner core of the cable that comes
> up to the inside of the socket first and the plug seems tight. But as
> it compresses in warmer weather, the plug becomes loose causing
> picture break up and lack of LNB band and polarity switching.
>
> I am quite sure it makes a mint for the problem-solving call-out dept.
>
> If you didn't install the dish yourself, just check, you will be
> supprised. (They are often loose at the receiver and wall plates as
> well)
>
>
>
>

"jo"  wrote in message 
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> just having rain and winds -- should this effect the sky to say "no 
> satellite signal being received"

I've had that a few times in the recent monsoons we've had round here!

jo wrote:
> we were in the middle of a tornado at the time -- which might account for 
> it??
> 
> It cut a path 15 yards wide and about 1/2 mile long just up the road...
> the rain was  horizontal sheets..

The last thing I'd be watching, if I had a tornado outside, would be the TV !

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