Problem with sky picture breaking up

longforgotten

We had some really heavy rain several weeks ago and soon after the tv picture kept breaking up and sometimes 'no signal'window popped up. At this time bbc1, bbc2 etc were fine. It seemed too much of a co-incidence and we blamed the rain, thinking it had done something to the dish.


Sky engineer turned up about 6pm over two hours later than his due time. Seemed to have had a bit of a day of it. Unplugged leads from back of sky box/ could have been the leads to wi-fi sky demand box. Think he said signal was fine, looked at box and said that's new ( 16 mths old) then promptly went outside and blamed the very large trees opposite. He did not get up the ladder to check the dish. Wanted to move the dish but there's hardly any room to do that and let's face it, if its the trees fault they will only get bigger so what's the point in moving the dish, it's only delaying the inevitable. Trees are owned by the council by the way.


Next day all channels were fine ! Trees must have moved during the night we thought !


Anyway the picture has good days and bad days. Some channels are fine.


What do you reckon. Please let me know do you really think it's the trees.

Gloomendoom

Ours is affected by rain and also by a bush when it gets overgrown. Dense storm clouds can also block the signal, even if it isn't actually raining.

It's conceivable that wet trees in full leaf might have more of a blocking effect than dry ones.

Shimrod

I'd blame the trees as well. We had a similar issue with trees in our garden. We have a low quality but adequate signal when it was dry, but the combination of heavy rain and trees always meant loss of signal. We had to move the dish to resolve it.

Le_Kirk

Agree, heavy rain will do it. Also trees, we had to move our dish three times, taking it higher every couple of years to clear some conifers that a neighbour (couple of gardens away) refused to cut. Eventually I had it installed on wall of garden and it sees no trees now!

kwikbreaks

longforgotten wrote: »

Next day all channels were fine ! Trees must have moved during the night we thought !
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Please let me know do you really think it's the trees.

Yes it is almost certainly the trees. They don't normally walk but the rain can dry off them.

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