On Jan 31, 1:58*pm, Dave Osborne wrote:
Eddy wrote:
Hi.

Overheard the man supervising our builders saying, "Don't you worry
about putting the satellite dish back, we'll get the SKY man in to do
that"!

What's happening is that the satellite dish is currently attached to the
chimney but after the building works have finished it needs to be
repositioned down the other end of the house - where it can still face
the same direction.

Now I would have thought that re-positioning it is a fairly simple
matter of attaching the appropriate fixing to the side of the house,
popping the dish onto it, and then (most importantly) getting the angle
right.

At worst, getting the angle right (in my thinking) can be accomplished
by having one person up the ladder and another person reporting on the
TV reception from the TV end of the cable. *In other words: a fairly
straightforward DIY job

*. . or am I wrong and a no-doubt expensive "SKY man" needs to visit?

Eddy.

I have to say in my case that connecting the LNB to a pro signal meter
and aligning dish took about 5 minutes. Total on-site time including
getting ladders on and off van - 15 minutes. *They were done and packing
up before I had time to get my shoes and coat on.

Trying to do the same job with a satellite receiver (Panasonic, in my
case) was a right PITA, as the signal strength/quality meters in the
setup page are very slow to respond. Fortunatley, the local aerial man
is a mate and he owed me a favour, so I don't know what he would have
charged.

Sister just moved house (to a bungalow in a dip) and paid a local
contractor over £300 for a 14-element aerial, 4-way masthead amp and
downleads to two locations. £175.00 for the aerial and a 10 foot mast
and chimney lashing kit was expensive I thought. *Still, she moved on
Friday, started on the Yellow Pages on Saturday Morning, got a
commitment to attend between 11.00 am and 3.00 pm same day. *Guy (nice
chap, very knowledgeable and competent) turned up about 12.30p.m. and
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if you are going to bolt it onto a wall that is parallel to the wall
it was bolted to before you will not need to adjust anything, with
luck

I'd agree with other that adjusting it using the TV is difficult. Buy
a sig strength meter, preferably one with a 'bleep'. I think you'll
need some self-amalagamating tape to seal up the cable afterwards
also. You must not let rainwater get into that cable.

Robert