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mark haagman

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I have a HDPVR and an extra veiw, for the past two weeks, since the rain I have problems with horizontal signal. it was there this morning and its gone now.
I enjoy channel 120 but I am having extreme problems veiwing.What can I do?
The signal was fine before the rain.
Thanx.
Mark
 
You need to upgrade your Dish to a 100cm and put a HD LNB in (It has horizontal and vertical polarization)

Email me if you need any help.
 
mark haagman said:
I have a HDPVR and an extra veiw, for the past two weeks, since the rain I have problems with horizontal signal. it was there this morning and its gone now.
I enjoy channel 120 but I am having extreme problems veiwing.What can I do?
The signal was fine before the rain.
Thanx.
Mark
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If it started after the rain... then maybe something got messed up by your dish.
One of my satellite dishes had a completely messed LNB receiver that I only picked up after a tenant complained.

Just take a peek and see if everything is still okay at your dish... casual inspection. If you don't see anything wrong, it could mean the dish got moved out of alignment somehow.

If all else fails call some schmuck to come take a look at it.
 
Its been proven that upgrading the dish size increases your "Signal Capture" ratio, increasing your overall signal ratio, reduces the effect of weather, the HD LNB has dual polarization which increases bandwidth on your dish. They are imported and are quite expensive compared to a normal twin or quad LNB, we use them for hotels.

On a second not. I am not sure why you would call some DSTV engineer and schmuck
 
Honestly mr all install, you expected to post here and not be grilled ?
yes a biger dish is better , but in this case its probaly over kill.
and i ask as well whats a hd lnb i never heard of it, sounds like SATcr to me?
mark i had a similar problem like your my signal in the rain was terrible, what the problem was the dish want mounted securly and all it neede was to be shifted a few mm and it was facing a wall, and basicaly when it rained the ran was strong enoou to move it, you might need an installer to realighn it for you, the standard fee for this R350,
also because you losing chanel 120 you lnb might be slightly damaged or slghtly off alighnemet check your signal level and qulity when (on both decoders) also is it onlt chanel 120 thats not woriking properly, from what i know a couple of the other chanels in the same range might have a problem as well


p.s i never heard the term DSTV enigeer before is that the PC term for installer now :)
 
Look at dish allignment, LNB, skew, connections and multiswitch. Anyone of those could have gone wrong.

All-Install said:
Its been proven that upgrading the dish size increases your "Signal Capture" ratio, increasing your overall signal ratio, reduces the effect of weather, the HD LNB has dual polarization which increases bandwidth on your dish. They are imported and are quite expensive compared to a normal twin or quad LNB, we use them for hotels.

On a second not. I am not sure why you would call some DSTV engineer and schmuck
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At the moment you don't need a bigger dish than a 60cm. You will when they switch to DVB-S2 broadcasting for the HD channels, but a 75cm should be fine then. What is signal capture ratio? Bigger dishes have more gain. A normal twin LNB with switch will be fine. I don't know what you are talking about. There is no such thing as an HD LNB. All LNB's have dual polarization.
 
Is it a SatCR lnb with HDPVR and 1110/1131 ? If so then I had a similar problem. Let me know if you want the whole story and solution to the problem
 
All-Install said:
Its been proven that upgrading the dish size increases your "Signal Capture" ratio, increasing your overall signal ratio, reduces the effect of weather, the HD LNB has dual polarization which increases bandwidth on your dish. They are imported and are quite expensive compared to a normal twin or quad LNB, we use them for hotels.

On a second not. I am not sure why you would call some DSTV engineer and schmuck
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A DSTV "Engineer" would know that a problem which started only after a heavy rain storm was not brought about by a dish that was too small.
A DSTV "Engineer" would not come out to your house.
A DSTV "Engineer" would not climb onto the roof with blue overalls and a box of smokes.

But I don't want to pick fights.
So...
Phone a *Accredited DTSV installation firm", and they'll send someone who'll tell you need:

to retrofit all your cables (x4)
a quad LNB receiver (just because)
a bigger dish
and then try sell you lightning insurance.

Or... explain to the highly trained technician that your dish/receiver has probably shifted due to the rain storm... all that might be needed is to check the alignment. Might save you R2000 or so.

Overkill (Bsc.Mech.Eng)
 
Bad signal DSTV

mm001 said:
Is it a SatCR lnb with HDPVR and 1110/1131 ? If so then I had a similar problem. Let me know if you want the whole story and solution to the problem
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Thank you mm001,
I would ike to hear your story and solution, again this morning it was working well but when I got home gone again. Beginning to think that some one has a device which disrupts signal

Mark
 
Sounds like your dish is loose, probably find that when it is fine, it's shifted back into position and when it's not the wind has blown it out. Also having a bigger dish gives you a marginal gain on signal strength if any, my dad has a 100cm dish and his signal strength is actually worse then my little 60cm
 
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