DSTV loses pic in the rain?

dunkyd

dunkyd

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Hi all, as soon as it begins to rain reasonably hard my pic becomes squiggly and soon freezes.

Fifteen minutes later , after switching off at the wall for 5 minutes, it searches and soon restarts. Tricky thing is that it stays on even though the rain is still belting down?

I had a techie here last week and he replaced cracked and vrot cable. Sadly last night it misbehaved the same way again as soon as the rain came. He did say I have a hole in my LNB which he covered with tape.Said I need a new one at ± R400 plus labour.

Recap. Rain/lose pic/restart/ plays fine despite rain???

Any ideas ?

ps. the cable joins behind my TV were done by me......oops. Surely the rain can't affect those ?

I'm using Aerial & Satellite in Noordheuwel. Seem clued up. Francois did the new cable.:cry:
 
This is normal. Too many clouds about, signal to your dish getting disrupted.
 
Seems like standard DSTV signal.

I still maintain that DSTV should change their slogan to.

DSTV. Successfully predicting rain since 1995.
 
We live in Panorama Estate. Neighbour's dishes are 5m away from mine with perfect pic. 2 others about 25m away also with perfect pics.

"Use a condom" !!!!..........average age here is 75 !!:D
 
dunkyd said:
We live in Panorama Estate. Neighbour's dishes are 5m away from mine with perfect pic. 2 others about 25m away also with perfect pics.

"Use a condom" !!!!..........average age here is 75 !!:D
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The get some Viagra!! :)
 
What always used to work for me when I had DSTV was this:

Cut an empty 500ml coke plastic bottle halfway. Throw away the base part. Stick the other part firmly over your LNB with the narrow neck part facing outward. A DSTV installer gave me this trick and I didn't ever get picture loss after that.
 
And when it rains really really heavily in Randburg, everything beamed from Multichoice's uplinks there goes down nationwide. It's happened a few times.
 
dunkyd said:
We live in Panorama Estate. Neighbour's dishes are 5m away from mine with perfect pic. 2 others about 25m away also with perfect pics.
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What if your dish alignment is slightly out; just enough so that it normally works but under signal degradation in the rain it fails?
 
garp said:
And when it rains really really heavily in Randburg, everything beamed from Multichoice's uplinks there goes down nationwide. It's happened a few times.
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...but others have clear pic?
Techie flicks some buttons on my remote and 88% showed up. Is that good or bad ?
 
dunkyd said:
...but others have clear pic?
Techie flicks some buttons on my remote and 88% showed up. Is that good or bad ?
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You can have a good signal to the satellite but the uplink side might not if there is a bad storm there. That's quite rare though and more likely to be interference on the receiving side. When the Multichoice uplink is stuffed up by bad weather you can generally tell as some non-local channels are still fine because they don't uplink from Randburg.
 
Simple 1131 of yesteryear.......we have a commercial package so don't need any expensive options.
 
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