"Bad Or No Signal" Problem

Posted by: Fraser Hadden on 21 September 2010

Setup:

Satellite dish with quad LNB.
TV Room - Freesat TV plus twin-tuner Humax Foxsat PVR. Three cables feeding this.
Kitchen - Standard TV fed by anothet Humax Freesat box, with no recording facility. A single cable feeds this.

Problem: Episodic 'Bad Or No Signal' in the kitchen only, which disappears if I turn the TV Room kit on, and recurs when I turn it off. All channels in the kitchen are affected. It doesn't matter what the TV Room gear is tuned to, the kitchen set works perfectly with the TV Room gear switched on.

No recent rain or windy conditions to disturb the dish.

Question: Is the problem at the dish (quad LNB) end, or with the kitchen Humax box?

Thanks for any help.

Fraser
Posted on: 21 September 2010 by tonym
It does sound as though the feed to the LNB is faulty. Your kitchen unit is insufficient to power it. Might be the connection in the LNB due to water ingress (most likely).

Quad LNBs are pretty cheap so I'd replace it as a first port of call.
Posted on: 22 September 2010 by Fraser Hadden
Thanks very much. I'll duly look at the LNB end first.

Fraser