Fence Screening affecting neighbours TV signal?

PasturesNew

They're just nutters. From your description it can have NO effect whatsoever. I bet they've not pushed their wires in tightly lately and, over time, they do wiggle a bit loose.

Neighbours do get some funny ideas in their heads...

ACG

My mate had an alarm put in his house about 60m away from the mobile phone mast. It stopped people on vodafone getting a signal in half the village he lives in.

He had someone come down from ofcom or somewhere.

I have no idea whether or not it is a problem, but if my mates alarm 60m away can be an issue for vodafone, whats to say the fence is not causing an issue with a satellite dish?

It is difficult to prove one way or the other, get an electrician down to see if it is causing any static or anything maybe?

Slithery

ACG wrote: »

I have no idea whether or not it is a problem, but if my mates alarm 60m away can be an issue for vodafone, whats to say the fence is not causing an issue with a satellite dish?

As far as I'm aware wooden fences don't emit EM radiation

Cakeguts

Slithery wrote: »

As far as I'm aware wooden fences don't emit EM radiation

Can I suggest a line of poles with the internals of lampshades on them to reflect the rays off the fence and back to the satellite dish?

Rodders53

ACG wrote: »

I have no idea whether or not it is a problem, but if my mates alarm 60m away can be an issue for vodafone, whats to say the fence is not causing an issue with a satellite dish?

That's because the alarm system contained radio transmitting equipment that was faulty. That caused interference to the licensed mobile operators. The Radio Investigation arm of Ofcom will have direction-found the source of the interference and shut it down after complaints from Public/Vodafone.

Most likely if the operation of adding thatch to the fence (using nails/wire/ties) the OP might have moved/disturbed the cables at this location? If so that may have caused a break in the internal wire (as they age they become brittle). Ideally they should be run in trunking to protect them from heating/cooling and UV light.

The same can happen spontaneously and coincidentally due to expansion/contraction with temperature over time. But there are many other things on a remote-sited satellite install (as describe here) that could go wrong over time, too.

AnotherJoe

Slithery wrote: »

As far as I'm aware wooden fences don't emit EM radiation

[[pedant] Technically,they do since everything does [\pedant]

GeeAreDee

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AnotherJoe wrote: »

[[pedant] Technically, they do since everything does [\pedant]

Even black holes :rotfl:

[/FONT] [FONT=&quot]However, timber fence highly unlikely to affect a satellite signal when not in “line of sight”[/FONT]

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Even black holes

Yes - Hawking Radiation

AnotherJoe

GeeAreDee wrote: »

[FONT=&quot]Even black holes :rotfl:

[/FONT] [FONT=&quot]However, timber fence highly unlikely to affect a satellite signal when not in “line of sight”[/FONT]

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Perhaps there is a black hole in the vicinity sucking in the sky signal?

caronoel

Your neighbours have no automatic right to object to anything potentially blocking their TV signal.

This was tried on by local residents when Canary Wharf was being built:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_v_Canary_Wharf_Ltd