29-05-2010, 18:00
I thought this might be a good place to conduct a little research into how the bad weather (mainly rain) affects the babeshows on other people's equipment.
Up until about 8-9 months ago when I upgraded to Sky+, my signals were as strong as an ox, so strong in fact that only torrential rain would knock out the channels - and then it was pretty much all of them and not just the weaker babe channels. But since the upgrade even a few drops of rain mean I lose about three or four from the 900s. I initially messed up the upgrade - which I did myself and (I think) inadvertantley moved the dish as I was attaching the twin feed lnb - so then got a Sky man in to sort it out. To be fair it's only been the last few days that problems have started again, but I can't understand why. Yesterday afternoon (during a bright, dry day) when I first booted up the Sky box (took it off stand-by mode), there was signal loss on 955, 950 and 914. This fixed itself over the next hour or so and I had no more problems. This afternoon (murky with light rain/drizzle) - once again on initial boot-up - I couldn't get 966, 914, 955, 950. Again this seemed to right itself over an hour or so.
So my question is this: How are your babe channels affected by the rain? Do you lose them easily - with only slight rain/drizzle - or does it have to really hammer it down before they drop off?
Up until about 8-9 months ago when I upgraded to Sky+, my signals were as strong as an ox, so strong in fact that only torrential rain would knock out the channels - and then it was pretty much all of them and not just the weaker babe channels. But since the upgrade even a few drops of rain mean I lose about three or four from the 900s. I initially messed up the upgrade - which I did myself and (I think) inadvertantley moved the dish as I was attaching the twin feed lnb - so then got a Sky man in to sort it out. To be fair it's only been the last few days that problems have started again, but I can't understand why. Yesterday afternoon (during a bright, dry day) when I first booted up the Sky box (took it off stand-by mode), there was signal loss on 955, 950 and 914. This fixed itself over the next hour or so and I had no more problems. This afternoon (murky with light rain/drizzle) - once again on initial boot-up - I couldn't get 966, 914, 955, 950. Again this seemed to right itself over an hour or so.
So my question is this: How are your babe channels affected by the rain? Do you lose them easily - with only slight rain/drizzle - or does it have to really hammer it down before they drop off?