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[Lazydocker]

... give a true report

Finally managed to get my mate from down the road down and he and I have re-sited my dish (and also fitted a 60cm instead of 45cm) to a 10' pole in the back garden. Now that there is clear line of sight over the trees in front of the house we have a perfect, strong, high quality signal

Can finally see some of the HD channels, or SD channels come to think of it, that we have never been able to receive since having sky installed in 2005

Not the fault of Sky though... The signal was always going to be weak because of the trees and they wouldn't do the specialist installation that was needed and has now been done

I might be able to enjoy TV a little more now

[Marks DTM Calib]

The 60cm dish will make a big difference on its own (almost double the area and hence 3db extra)

[bored bigyin54]

... give a true report

Finally managed to get my mate from down the road down and he and I have re-sited my dish (and also fitted a 60cm instead of 45cm) to a 10' pole in the back garden. Now that there is clear line of sight over the trees in front of the house we have a perfect, strong, high quality signal

Can finally see some of the HD channels, or SD channels come to think of it, that we have never been able to receive since having sky installed in 2005

Not the fault of Sky though... The signal was always going to be weak because of the trees and they wouldn't do the specialist installation that was needed and has now been done

I might be able to enjoy TV a little more now

i won't say a word then 

[Kevin Wood]

Ahh, but is it raining in Essex?

 

[omega3000]

Losing the signal here when its blowing the tree in front of the dish , i should of chopped the tree back 4 years ago ...oh well 

[Lazydocker]

The 60cm dish will make a big difference on its own (almost double the area and hence 3db extra)

True, but the bigger dish couldn't have been mounted where the other one was... It would have moved far too much

Besides... there are no longer trees blowing into the path to the satellite

Ahh, but is it raining in Essex?

 

Not yet, but looking at the sky and the temperature we could be in for a heavy dumping of snow this even in Suffolk

At the end of the day, I wouldn't have expected a sky "Engineer" to do the work we have done for a standard installation. I doubt any of them would even know where to start when it comes to fabrication Not that I would expect them to TBH

[Kevin Wood]

Not yet, but looking at the sky and the temperature we could be in for a heavy dumping of snow this even in Suffolk

OK, I'll give you that one.  It's close, though.

[OOMV6]

... give a true report

Finally managed to get my mate from down the road down and he and I have re-sited my dish (and also fitted a 60cm instead of 45cm) to a 10' pole in the back garden. Now that there is clear line of sight over the trees in front of the house we have a perfect, strong, high quality signal

Can finally see some of the HD channels, or SD channels come to think of it, that we have never been able to receive since having sky installed in 2005

Not the fault of Sky though... The signal was always going to be weak because of the trees and they wouldn't do the specialist installation that was needed and has now been done

I might be able to enjoy TV a little more now

Good news - and thanks for the reminder. Need to change my dish this weekend 

[tunnie]

Sadly all of our special installs are contracted out 

[Lazydocker]

Sadly all of our special installs are contracted out 

TBH, even contracted out I highly doubt it would have been successful It needed some fabrication and lateral thinking to get it in a suitable location, something that hasn't happened with any of the Sky "Engineers" or contractors who have been out in the past

Not Uncle Rupert's fault though, all down to Mother Nature

Anyway... Great picture now

[TheBoy]

Sadly all of our special installs are contracted out 

To monkeys, I'm afraid, IME.

If I wanted Sky, I'd fit it all, so all the Sky mogrels would have to do is plug the box in.

[feeutfo]

I love sky me. It's great.

[Lazydocker]

I love sky me. It's great.

So do I, now it's working properly

Just got to sort out connecting it to tinterweb now and all will be very good

[TheBoy]

*IF* it would link into my MCE, I'd consider it.

Although with a pair of fast broadband lines, HD streaming is a reality, and probably the future...

[Lazydocker]

*IF* it would link into my MCE, I'd consider it.

Although with a pair of fast broadband lines, HD streaming is a reality, and probably the future...

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