Weather issue with cyfrowy Polsat

bhm1712 · 25-01-2009

Hi all im new so please excuse me if this is not the right section, it seemed like the best one for my question.

i have recently installed a mini dish to pick up hotbird for polsat. i am getting a 65% signal on all channels pretty much all of the time. When it rains i still get about 65% except for about 4 channels, mainly TVN 1 and 2, and jetix. there is one more but i cant remember the name.

i know that a mini dish is a tad small, but i was wondering if its something simple, because its only 4 channels i lose. The rest of the time i get all channels, and about 200 extra free ones.

A friend of mine has polsat on a mini dish aswel and does not have any weather issues!

thanks

**satelliteman** · 25-01-2009

Welcome,

Could be a number of possibilities being a slightly poor aligned dish, LNb or a cabling issue to name a few. I'd opt for a slightly larger dish though to cope with rain fade.

bhm1712 · 25-01-2009

how do i check the cable? it all seems ok.

and the LNB, how can i check that?

im not too sure how to check the elevation of the dish, if i knew where 0 degrees is i can do it. im presuming that zero is having the dish perfectly vertical? then i need 28 degrees. if thats correct then my dish is set to that.

**satelliteman** · 25-01-2009

Dish elevation scales are not accurate enough to align a dish. Either use the satellite signal set up screen or a meter. As said, it's a possibility.

bhm1712 · 28-01-2009

thanks for the advice, i adjusted the elevation and its sorted! works even in hard rain, all channels now.

**satelliteman** · 28-01-2009

Glad your up and running

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