Do all dishes have to look the same way?

[shireknight]

Sky installed a dish in early spring but when the trees behind my house started to fill up with leaves the satelite signal got blocked -Sky came and resighted the dish but have told me It's only temporary and that I should never have been offered Sky in the first place because of the trees.

The council won't trim the trees and I'm not allowed to as the Council own them, the signal is already starting to weaken so this pretty much means Ill lose my Sky reception completely soon.

I only have trees to the rear of my house (the direction the Sky dish needs to look) do the other satelite services all have their satelites in the same place or are they all in different quadrants of the sky? -I'm thinking that maybe Freeview or someone might have a satelite that requires a dish to look at it from the opposite direction aka the front of my house -Is this likely or just wishful thinking on my part?

Jay :-)

 

[2cvbloke]

I'd say that if the pitch of your roof is low enough, you could fit the dish on the other side of your house looking over the guttering on a cranked mast, so unless the trees shot up to 50m tall, then you will not have any trouble getting a signal from that spot, sky installers won't tell you that as it would mean they have to actually do some proper work, a professional installer can do this for you though at a price...

 

[tomthebomb1968]

If your getting a signal now then you should be alright as the trees will have full leaves on them now. They wiil loose them soon and your signal may improve, it should be at its worst now. I have an Ash tree in my garden and this time of year I notice my mini dish struggles. A bigger dish will maximize whatever signal you are able to pull in.

 

[shireknight]

Cheers for the tips guys, at the moment the signal is sometimes good and sometimes bad, I think that this is a combination of the trees and the weather. Generally if the weather is good then I can most of the channels, if the weather is poor then the vast majority of channels just say "no signal received"

This is really annoying right now with the olympics on because for instance Friday (weather was good) I could get Eurosport perfectly and Saturday (weather was overcast and raining) when they started showing the live events I couldn't get it at all lol.

 

[pgh13]

At the risk of getting laughed off the forum; have you treid complaining to S_y? If you are subscribing and they did the install fairly recent, in an ideal world, they should fix it.

 

[Robbo]

I'm thinking that maybe Freeview or someone might have a satelite that requires a dish to look at it from the opposite direction aka the front of my house -Is this likely or just wishful thinking on my part?

Jay :-)

There are no satellites in the opposite direction. The satellites are 22,000 miles above the equator, to see them we must point our dish anywhere from southeast to southwest.

To clear the trees, you must put the dish higher or futher away from the trees or both, so that the dish can look over the top of the trees and still see the satellite.

How high are the trees?
How far away are they from the back wall and front wall of your house.?

 

[HB13DISH]

I am only guessing that the Sky dish size that was installed is ~ 45-60 cm, so I agree with tom that a bigger dish and the best LNB that money can buy might help.
As you have already been in touch with the council and they are aware of your problem caused by THEIR trees, then you might find them more than willing to give you a permit to install a larger dish than is normally allowed.
I would go for 1.2-1.5m otherwise the maximum allowed dish size.