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| Thread ID: 72465 | 2006-09-14 00:41:00 | What is the Sky Satellite called? | Miami Steve (2128) | PC World Chat |
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| 484450 | 2006-09-14 00:41:00 | Recently I have been getting a lot of rain fade etc while watching Sky (especially ESPN and Sky Sports). Only this morning (around 7:30am) I was getting the "atmospheric conditions blah blah...." message coming up every couple of minutes and the channel being reselected - this with a clear blue sky. However, before I ring Sky to get there view (and possibly need a tech to realign the dish) I must put my hands up to having played around with the satellite settings when I first got the decoder (though this was several years ago). At that time I tried selecting all the different satellites to see what would happen - silly I know - but what is even sillier is that I never noted which satellite was selected to start with. I now have the situation where I know that I can get a signal from Optus B1-T5L and Optus B1-T7L, but I don't know which one I should be using. This morning both those satellites wre showing around 80% strength and 40% quality, so I'm not sure that it really matters. I'm more inclined to think that after 5+ years in a high wind area, the dish may need realigned. If this is the case, does anybody know whether Sky charge for doing this? Not sure if it's relevant, but my location is South-east Auckland. |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 484451 | 2006-09-14 02:34:00 | I heard the other night from a reasonably reliable source that the present satellite (just one ... each satellite can handle a number of channels) providing the Sky feed is just hanging on by the skin of its teeth. The satellite is very short of positioning fuel, so it's being given a fair bit of tolerance on its position. So you could well realign your antenna at one end of the range. The replacement satellite is scheduled for launch in December. If it reaches orbit ... without any "accidents" in the rocket ... things might get better. If it doesn't, Sky will be very unhappy, and Chicken Little will have been right all the time. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 484452 | 2006-09-14 03:11:00 | The replacement satellite is scheduled for launch in December. If it reaches orbit ... without any "accidents" in the rocket ... things might get better. If it doesn't, Sky will be very unhappy, and Chicken Little will have been right all the time. :D A few days ago Arianespace still showed it scheduled for late Sept but in this Stuff article about Sky's risk being uninsured the launch date has slipped to November www.stuff.co.nz |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 484453 | 2006-09-14 03:18:00 | I heard the other night from a reasonably reliable source that the present satellite (just one ... each satellite can handle a number of channels) providing the Sky feed is just hanging on by the skin of its teeth. The satellite is very short of positioning fuel, so it's being given a fair bit of tolerance on its position. So you could well realign your antenna at one end of the range. The replacement satellite is scheduled for launch in December. If it reaches orbit ... without any "accidents" in the rocket ... things might get better. If it doesn't, Sky will be very unhappy, and Chicken Little will have been right all the time. :D A few days ago Arianespace still showed it scheduled for late Sept but in this Stuff article about Sky's risk being uninsured the launch date has slipped to November www.stuff.co.nz So what you are actually saying is that there is a physical problem with the satellite positioning? Is it then the case that everybody is experiencing these picture/sound breakups on a more frequent basis? |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 484454 | 2006-09-14 05:58:00 | it's called optus b1 and I think they use optus b3 also.... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 484455 | 2006-09-14 06:08:00 | it's called optus b1 and I think they use optus b3 also.... Sorry. I thought it was clear from my original post that I knew it was Optus B1 (though looking back at the post, perhaps not). On the "Select a Satellite" screen on the decoder, the list of options is all Optus B1 with a suffix. Having tried every available selection I know that the T5L and the T7L suffixes produce a signal, but I don't know which one is the official Sky transmitter (or, in fact, if it even matters). Reading the replies to this thread so far, I am beginning to think I should just enjoy what signal I can get as it may not last a lot longer. |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 484456 | 2006-09-14 06:33:00 | :D Just when I was beginning to think Rain Fade was Sky Speak for Tech Tripped Over The Cable - I got Sun Strike instead! And it was raining! So they do vary the excuse occasionally. Yes you had sunshine at your place - but it was actually raining somewhere in the country. :D |
pctek (84) | ||
| 484457 | 2006-09-14 07:00:00 | Optus B1-T5L here. | godfather (25) | ||
| 484458 | 2006-09-14 07:05:00 | Optus B1-T5L here. Thanks GF, that's all I really needed to know.:thumbs: |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 484459 | 2006-09-14 07:14:00 | You could buy it yourself www.trademe.co.nz More information here: en.wikipedia.org |
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