Loss of BBC and other channels????

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Hi All,
I'm new to this forum and was hoping someone could through some light on why we've suddenly lost or got bad reception quite a number of channels with our Sky hd box.
We live in Cordoba southern Spain and all has been working apart from a hand full of channels for the last four years.
A few weeks back started getting problems with bad signal and the loss of BBC1, BBC2, History channel and others, so I thought it may be the dish alignment so I re-adjusted it with some small improvement ( though all the while I've been able to get the BBC channels on another old digibox in the kitchen thats fed from one of the outputs of the quad lnb ).
Thinking this may be a fault with the LNB I swapped the cables around but it is exactly the same.
When looking at the signal strength, this varies dramaticly from full strength and full quallity on inputs 1 and / or 2 to absolutly nothing on 1 or 2 and sometimes both.

Has anyone got any ideas??????
Thanks
 

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A thompson box by any chance? Idf so its probably the capacitors in the power supply failing - they are notorious for it.
 

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Thanks for the reply, Yes it is a Thompson, are these symtoms typical of failing capacitors?
 

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Yes - do a forum search for capacitors and you will see dozens of folk have had problems with Thompsons & Grundigs over the last 4 or 5 years.

You can get the box repaired with kits - if you are handy with a soldering iron you can diy as well :D
 

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Thanks, I'm well versed with a soldering iron so I'll order a kit to sort it.

Many thanks
Barry
 

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Changed the capacitors today, all working fine now!!!!
Thanks again

Barry
 

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Great result - well done.
 

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And very well done for doing it yourself.

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