Snow and Sky TV

outlaw777

I've got heavy snow here and my dish is high on the roof with no signal being recieved, what a nightmare!

j2011

My sister lives in rented accommodation in a conservation area and was told she wasn't allowed a dish anywhere on the building or on the garden ground so she had it installed on the side of her shed.

Within 2 days she had a letter telling her to take it down, she told them to make her.

It is still there 3 years later and it is very easy to knock the snow off as it is only 2 feet above ground. However this week it was buried in the snow as the snow had drifted half way up the shed.

macman

The normal restriction in a conservation area is that dishes are not allowed on the front elevation-they're fine anywhere else on the property or the ground as long as not visible from the street-unless maybe it is a listed building (but probably not a listed shed!)?

spike7451

macman wrote: »

Because the dish needs a line of sight to the satellite-unless you want to knock holes in the roof, it wouldn't work.
Dishes do not need to be at roof height, they will work perfectly well at ground level as long as there is a line of sight.

Also Sky do not allow their installer into loft's for not just H&S reasons but legal as well.The is also the difficulty of running cables from a loft to the TV point.
I do know of a home that has a dish pointing out of a velux window in the attic (works but not too well) but again he gets problems from rain,snow ect more than a normal install.

j2011

they're fine anywhere else on the property or the ground as long as not visible from the street

Exactly, this shed is at the side of the house facing to the street, it is at the back of the drive, the dish is visible from the street but it is not on the ground, she was told to remove it she said make me, they cannot. Or at least they haven't written anymore and it has been over 3 years.

As I said the only problem was the dish and LNB was covered with snow. A bucket of hot water fixed that.

Kurtis_Blue

j2011 wrote: »

Exactly, this shed is at the side of the house facing to the street, it is at the back of the drive, the dish is visible from the street but it is not on the ground, she was told to remove it she said make me, they cannot.

Im sure different local authority's have differing rules but here in a conservation area planning is needed for dishes visible from the street. Shed, fence, tree or otherwise.

And a good thing too.

tanit

I got rid of Sky in May this year and now have Freesat (Not Sky's freesat) and my reception is fine. I live in rural Scotland where we had minus 21 last night and there is about 10 inches of snow outside my house. We also have icicles about 3 feet long hanging from the gutters but TV reception is okay.
Just wonder if Freesat uses a different satellite to Sky.

Kurtis_Blue

tanit wrote: »

I got rid of Sky in May this year and now have Freesat (Not Sky's freesat) and my reception is fine. I live in rural Scotland where we had minus 21 last night and there is about 10 inches of snow outside my house. We also have icicles about 3 feet long hanging from the gutters but TV reception is okay.
Just wonder if Freesat uses a different satellite to Sky.

No all exactly the same feeds, different boxes will have differing tolerances to signal strength but not worth measuring.

Colin_London

tanit wrote: »

I got rid of Sky in May this year and now have Freesat (Not Sky's freesat) and my reception is fine. I live in rural Scotland where we had minus 21 last night and there is about 10 inches of snow outside my house. We also have icicles about 3 feet long hanging from the gutters but TV reception is okay.
Just wonder if Freesat uses a different satellite to Sky.

What matters is whether the dish and LNB are caked in snow, which is very much down to where it is located and your local weather conditions. So although you have extreme weather, it may not be of the type to cause problems with your dish.

Inactive

Kurtis_Blue wrote: »

No all exactly the same feeds, different boxes will have differing tolerances to signal strength but not worth measuring.

Indeed, however in very weak signal receiving areas like Spain, that translates to a huge difference.

The very best Sky Receivers are the Pace 2600 and the Thomson 4212.

The Humax Freesat Receivers are reported as being very good as well.