SKYBOX F5

[BARRY1962]

yes even tried that.

[BARRY1962]

Hi i did try that but still same problem,i have tried to alter one or two things and in the box to see if that would have helped, i could do a factory reset but i wouldn't know what settings or password to put in for the server as my nephew set it all up, i will wait for him to have a look at it either today or tomorrow, thanks for the replies and help though.

[BARRY1962]

UPDATE: I managed to get all channels back by going into satellite search and changed the setting to fta search and after a scan they all came back ?... however i have another question, after a recent downpour an hour ago i noticed the signal intensity and quality dropped to around 60% intensity and 35% quality whereas normally it is usually 90% and 75% does anyone else have this problem and is it normal in bad weather.... if so i am going to have a lot of unwatchable programs judging by the amount of rain we have in BOLTON... oh dear me, what have i let myself in for i'm not joking but i wonder if there is a teflon coated spray paint or something similar anyway thanks for the replies so far.

[digicon]

UPDATE: I managed to get all channels back by going into satellite search and changed the setting to fta search and after a scan they all came back ?... however i have another question, after a recent downpour an hour ago i noticed the signal intensity and quality dropped to around 60% intensity and 35% quality whereas normally it is usually 90% and 75% does anyone else have this problem and is it normal in bad weather.... if so i am going to have a lot of unwatchable programs judging by the amount of rain we have in BOLTON... oh dear me, what have i let myself in for i'm not joking but i wonder if there is a teflon coated spray paint or something similar anyway thanks for the replies so far.

Sounds like a Dish or even LNB problem and no teflon coating can fix that

[Hadron]

...after a recent downpour an hour ago i noticed the signal intensity and quality dropped to around 60% intensity and 35% quality whereas normally it is usually 90% and 75% does anyone else have this problem and is it normal in bad weather.... if so i am going to have a lot of unwatchable programs judging by the amount of rain we have in BOLTON... oh dear me, what have i let myself in for i'm not joking but i wonder if there is a teflon coated spray paint or something similar anyway thanks for the replies so far.

It sounds like your dish needs a tweak. You obviously need to align your satellite dish during a heavy downpour! LOL.

If you originally aligned your dish using your box as a signal indicator on one of the stronger transponders, then it may not be aligned very accurately, as the sig strength will max out at a certain level & stay there. Perhaps if you realign it while watching a channel such as CBS Reality, which is on the weaker Eutelsat satellite it might help. Or use a cheap sat meter, which has a variable attenuator on it to help peak the needle.

If you do realign the dish, don't forget that the skew of the LNB also has an effect.

[BARRY1962]

Hi hadron, i did have it on a channel that gave a poor signal reading of 35% and that channel now reads 70% but it wasn't CBS as i never knew that before you mentioned it, i actually aligned the dish with a signal meter yes that i got of ebay this week with a variable attenuator, i have another dish i might try to swap round this afternoon and see what that's like and check the LNB is not skewed also i was thinking of covering the LNB with a clear half plastic bottle to try and cut out the poor picture quality when it rains, what do you think of this and thanks for the reply and advice.
P.S.
I was meant to bid on a motorised dish with on friday but missed the auction with sorting other peoples internet problems out, it only sold for ?30

[dochuggybear]

I have the same problem, is it worth , delete all and restore to factory settings and start again

[BARRY1962]

Hi before you do a factory reset have you tried what i did, just a thought.

[Hadron]

Hi hadron, i did have it on a channel that gave a poor signal reading of 35% and that channel now reads 70% but it wasn't CBS as i never knew that before you mentioned it, i actually aligned the dish with a signal meter yes that i got of ebay this week with a variable attenuator, i have another dish i might try to swap round this afternoon and see what that's like and check the LNB is not skewed also i was thinking of covering the LNB with a clear half plastic bottle to try and cut out the poor picture quality when it rains, what do you think of this and thanks for the reply and advice.
P.S.
I was meant to bid on a motorised dish with on friday but missed the auction with sorting other peoples internet problems out, it only sold for ?30

I have never really understood what the coke bottle cover is trying to acheive. To me, it just introduces another layer of attenuation, but I guess it must work for some people I suppose.

Regarding the skew, I have just looked at a few notes that I scribbled down a few years ago when I first installed my dish. It appears that one of the weakest transponders was 12560H (Peace TV, Faith channel). where the channels were pixelating. No matter how much I adjusted the azimuth & elevation, I couldn't get very good quality on this transponder, until I read about skew.

I had set the body of the LNB to be vertical, & it wasn't until I twisted the LNB clockwise (facing the dish with my back to the satellite) by a few degrees that the quality shot up. So if you haven't tried altering the skew, give the LNB a twist so that the body of the LNB is around the 7 o'clock position.

What is LNB Skew?

Men & Movies No/Bad Signal, Sky & Freesat

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If you have a bog standard 43cm $ly dish with appropriate LNB then the skew is already applied as the official $ly ones are preset and have a scale of 1-5 which should never need adjusting from no.3 where ever you are in the UK, if however you have a no name offset dish with standard lnb if you adjust skew then as you look from behind the dish skew should be set at between the 4 & 5 o'clock position and should only need tweaking slightly

[BARRY1962]

Ok hadron and digicom thanks for the advice i'll try it, it is just a bog standard dish as far as i can tell.... cheers.