Sky satelite dish-should I leave well enough alone?

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justaquestion wrote: »

Thanks to everyone for replies, as regards the above the signal strengthon both channels would be about 85-90% and quality is about 40-50%.

Don't really understand these figures, would the signal strength be the most important one?

I think on the old dish it was about the same only I got more break up on a different channel that I like to watch, hence the reason for not wanting to get the installer back to try to fix the sky info channel in case it knocks some other channel out.

He is a proper installer has done a few tv jobs for me.

On the plus side I have the magic eye in three other rooms and changing the channel number on the box has really improved the picture through the magic eye.

justaquestion wrote: »

Thanks again. Can we rule the actual box out of the equation here, or is it possible it might be it, as its an old box?

That quality figure is horrible, that usually indicates something is interfering with the signal. Do you have a clear line of sight from the dish to where it is pointed? Any buildings or trees in the way? Bad weather can do the same, especially really heavy cloud/rain.

Whereabouts are you located as this can impact the quality number?

fifeken

If you can access it easily, don't be afraid to move it. I've had to move mine a few times and it doesn't take much fiddling about to get a good signal. I've just looked and my system doesn't show figures for strength and quality, just a bar for each, and they show 100% and what I think must be 90 - 95% respectively.

coffeehound

^ but if you are going to move the dish, you really do want at least a cheapo signal strength buzzer/indicator as it’s much harder to refer to the TV screen for signal strength

fifeken

coffeehound wrote: »

^ but if you are going to move the dish, you really do want at least a cheapo signal strength buzzer/indicator as it’s much harder to refer to the TV screen for signal strength

I'm 50/50 with this. I had one of these with a Lidl package of dish, decoder, cabling etc I was installing for a friend, but found shouting to each other just as good. On my home system it's easy to flit between the dish and TV, but I appreciate not everyone will be so fortunate.