: Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:43 pm  

Jake the Peg wrote:

My signal went last night. Brushed the accumulated snow off the LNB arm and the dish itself and it restored the picture immediately. Nothing to do with atmospheric conditions

Really? Had it stopped snowing?

Snow storms usually knocks out Sky.. simple as that. Did mine last night as well.

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:45 pm  

Kosh wrote:

Do they by any chance get large amounts of it on a regular basis rather than once every two decades?

Its every year now Kosh, we should be prepared.

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:49 pm  

BalearicHullFan wrote:

Really? Had it stopped snowing?

Snow storms usually knocks out Sky.. simple as that. Did mine last night as well.

Was still snowing when i did ours and worked fine, also out in Bg it was a twice daily routine at times brushing the dish off, tended to have more problems with rain than snow.

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:53 pm  

hullbg wrote:

Was still snowing when i did ours .

Somehow, I thought that might be the case.

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:55 pm  

Don't know why i bothered though cos the wife watched bleedin soaps anyway.

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:56 pm  

hullbg wrote:

Don't know why i bothered though cos the wife watched bleedin soaps anyway.

get multiroom

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:57 pm  

Got mutliroom but the card is otherwise engaged

[Kosh]

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:12 pm  

Big Dave T wrote:

Its every year now Kosh, we should be prepared.

The snow last week was the worst for 18 years. Should we have been 'prepared' for that? If so, how?

The petty disruptions caused by our normal snowfalls should be dealt with better, but once-in-two-decades events are hard to plan for unless you want to spend a lot of taxpayers cash on equipment that will gather dust for most of it's lifetime.

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:18 pm  

Kosh wrote:

The snow last week was the worst for 18 years. Should we have been 'prepared' for that? If so, how?

The petty disruptions caused by our normal snowfalls should be dealt with better, but once-in-two-decades events are hard to plan for unless you want to spend a lot of taxpayers cash on equipment that will gather dust for most of it's lifetime.

Your missing my point mate. We might have had the worst snow in 18 years, im not disagreeing with that. What i am saying is that we dont cope with snow full stop. I drive to York every day for work and on numerous occasions per year we have snow. Each and every time we have snow be it 3 inches or 18 inches etc we struggle as a country to deal with it. We know its going to come dont we. (in some form or other)

Same as the heat as i mentioned earlier leading to hose pipe bans etc. We know we are going to get some heat at some point, we just fail to cope with it then either.

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:44 pm  

try switching off at mains and back on again worked for me just hope the dam thing records the game tonight !