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[tunnie]

There are no circumstances under which a Sky installer would ever be permitted to touch my house.

Unfortunetly its contracted out these days, so its pot luck on the installer 

That strengthens my argument, I think.

Big drive on internally at the moment for retention, its been mentioned a few times the installers are not brilliant. Can't see any big changes happening though

[ninjapirate]

Ive got a spare lnb im sure, will go up tighten it all and fit that, Ive got a meter somewhere too. dish isnt that high up.

[TheBoy]

If a bit of rain is enough to lose the signal then something in your installation is marginal. A dish mounting that is not secure enough and has shifted, an LNB on its' way out, or water getting into the feeder cable would be the first things I'd look for.

That seems to be a common one, esp after the winds we had last week.  It seems many of our friendly, subcontracted Sky installers haven't been given spanners (or ladders, come to that) by Uncle Rupert.  Or maybe all Sky employees are have the strength of The Useless Student

(although, in Tunnie's defence, even he could mount the bloody dishes higher without a ladder).

Chatting to an installer other day, amount of Health & Saftey crap they have to do before going up a ladder is insane. Takes longer to go through that, than actually putting up the dish!

Sadly, from the installs I have seen, clearly its not H&S, its lazybastarditis thats the problem.  H&S is simply the excuse. Still, I'm sure Uncle Rupert doesn't give a monkeys, as long was the subbies are cheap 

[TheBoy]

There are no circumstances under which a Sky installer would ever be permitted to touch my house.

Indeed.  I did consider taking up tunnie on one of his offers, not because I want Sky, but as a cheap way of getting a dish fitted for Freesat.  But then it dawned on me, I'd have to buy and fit the dish anyway, and run all the cables.  Then Freeview HD came along (which was the only reason I considered Freesat)...

[TheBoy]

Ive got a spare lnb im sure, will go up tighten it all and fit that, Ive got a meter somewhere too. dish isnt that high up.

Most of them you can trip over

[millwall]

never had a problem with sky  ive just had a new box and dish fitted  the installer was a good bloke and took pride in his work  cant fault him   although the h&s is crap  having to fix securing points to my wall  and the safety stuff he had to wear was ott

[freecall666]

have this alot as from words from sky, the clowd cover is to thick and blocking the signal. said ok what can be done. nothing can be done its an act of god. so i said well this is my act dont want you any more.... still keep sending me mail half price this and that if i come back.

[Vamps]

There are no circumstances under which a Sky installer would ever be permitted to touch my house.

Unfortunetly its contracted out these days, so its pot luck on the installer 

That strengthens my argument, I think.

Big drive on internally at the moment for retention, its been mentioned a few times the installers are not brilliant. Can't see any big changes happening though

Any nice deals for ex sky and now freesat? don't want sport or movies............

[tunnie]

There are no circumstances under which a Sky installer would ever be permitted to touch my house.

Unfortunetly its contracted out these days, so its pot luck on the installer 

That strengthens my argument, I think.

Big drive on internally at the moment for retention, its been mentioned a few times the installers are not brilliant. Can't see any big changes happening though

Any nice deals for ex sky and now freesat? don't want sport or movies............

PM on its way 

[ninjapirate]

PMSL I tried to upgrade/order sky+ hd online but my account shows Im waiting for delivery or something...... yeh nearly 4 years!!!!  Really cant be arsed to do the call centres, got messed around 3 days last time waiting.

[bored bigyin54]

well i checked my signal strength its bounching up and down like a yo yo  sometime its half then three quarters then it goes right down  can you tell me if thats right

[Kevin Wood]

well i checked my signal strength its bounching up and down like a yo yo  sometime its half then three quarters then it goes right down  can you tell me if thats right

Should be pretty stable. You really need to take a handheld signal level meter and a patch cable up to the dish and see if you can figure out what's causing it. Could be trees in the way, dish not secure, poor electrical connection, etc.

[Broomies Mate]

Sky was installed at my gaff by a SubContractor in February of this year.... I wont mention the company's name (FutureTV).

I had a reasonable signal during nice weather (SD channels) but HD channels would suffer digital break-up.  If it was raining, digital break-up was accross the board.

After months and months of complainging to Sky, they finally agreed to send one of THEIR engineers to my property (September).  Two guys turned up, took one look at the dish and said (out of my ear-shot (or as they thought))  "Who the fork did that?".

The Sky Engineers proceeded up their ladder (no H&S tie in) removed the dish, replaced it with a new one (as the FutureTV engineer had forked the adjustable brackets) and Presto, even in heavy Rain, Hail, Sleet, Snow, Winds..... Perfect broadcasts SD and HD.

Of course, I am not happy with Sky for allowing it to drag in so long, but as I have no other option for Digital TV, I have to stick with them.  My contract renews in a couple of Months, so come January, I'll be calling them to cancel my contract and see what they can do to entice me to stay.  I hope they do deals on the Adult Channels??? 

[bored bigyin54]

i got nothing in the way of my dish never had the problem with old dish that is still working