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**Chris** · 07-04-2010, 10:10

We spent the weekend at the holiday flat where we have a basic Goodmans SD Freesat box connected to a bogstandard dish with a bogstandard mono-LNB. The install was done two years ago by a local independent installer.

Sadly, all is not rosy in our Freesat garden. In good weather on Saturday, a selection of channels was missing (ITV1 and ITV2 among them, but strangely not ITV2+1 ... I'm guessing this is down to a particular mux missing). When the weather turned foul, everything went down. The installer menu shows about 30% signal in good weather and flat zero in bad weather.

It is a fairly exposed seaside location. What is more likely to have happened - corrosion or moisture ingress to the cable or LNB, or might the dish have been battered by maritime winds sufficiently to have moved out of place? I'm just curious really, as whatever's wrong with it I think we're going to have to get the installer back to do a repair.

Any thoughts? And with a satellite rig, why would some channels vanish more readily than others?

07-04-2010, 10:10	#1
Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,146	Freesat installation gone wonky, opinions and advice please We spent the weekend at the holiday flat where we have a basic Goodmans SD Freesat box connected to a bogstandard dish with a bogstandard mono-LNB. The install was done two years ago by a local independent installer. Sadly, all is not rosy in our Freesat garden. In good weather on Saturday, a selection of channels was missing (ITV1 and ITV2 among them, but strangely not ITV2+1 ... I'm guessing this is down to a particular mux missing). When the weather turned foul, everything went down. The installer menu shows about 30% signal in good weather and flat zero in bad weather. It is a fairly exposed seaside location. What is more likely to have happened - corrosion or moisture ingress to the cable or LNB, or might the dish have been battered by maritime winds sufficiently to have moved out of place? I'm just curious really, as whatever's wrong with it I think we're going to have to get the installer back to do a repair. Any thoughts? And with a satellite rig, why would some channels vanish more readily than others?