Sky TV and rain

[Nigel]

Does anyone elses sky stop working when it rains hard?

The rains that heavy just outside Birmingham that my sky has been off for the last 15 minutes.

 

[Craig]

mine starts to lose the signal and go slow but its sunny here at the mo

 

[Ibanezman]

Hehe I thought all that weather affected stuff went out when people got the digital dish, i've never seen any of my mates go dodgy at all

 

[kpowell911]

Does anyone elses sky stop working when it rains hard?

The rains that heavy just outside Birmingham that my sky has been off for the last 15 minutes.

ALWAYS Happens withmine too! Goes all pixelated then goes off! I'm not far from you either

 

[MRBILLYUK]

Mines done it a few times recently with really hard rain , freezes or pixelates

 

[Stu Blue 182]

I get the same problem, sometimes just when it looks like its going to rain

 

[Daz]

Only VERY VERY heavy rain.. but hey, it's a Satellite.

 

[Nigel]

It's sky digital. It's only just came back on! When changing channels it just says "listings cannot be found". At least it's not only me then!

 

[Nigel]

Only VERY VERY heavy rain.. but hey, it's a Satellite.

I was in the middle of perving over Location, Location, Location!!

 

[Griff]

Only VERY VERY heavy rain.. but hey, it's a Satellite.

Same here. If it's really hammering it down I'll get some pixelation (sp?) but that's about it.

 

[jamesp24]

Yeh mine always does in heavy rain only happens when theres something good on lol.

 

[d4nn3h]

I have had sky+ for about 3 years now, and its never gone off, even in snow etc, but we had one bad storm the other night, and it went off when it was raining really hard, first time its ever done it.

 

[Ibanezman]

This may be the one and only time I get to say this, but............. god bless VM's cable tv lol

 

[kpowell911]

I imagine its going to go again, The heavens have just opened here (Bartley Green)

 

[Nigel]

I've never heard a bomb (and hope not too) but the thunder just was so loud! It was how I'd imagine one to sound! And Sky's gone back off!

 

[kpowell911]

Sky's Still on here, Dogs not too pleased with the thunder mind.

 

[Jay_clio]

happens every timefor us, when heavy rain comes = no tv

 

[ViolentJ]

Yep happens to us as well, well annoying but still more reliable than cable was when we had that.

 

[Anim@l]

When it was heavy rain the other day, it went all blocky and froze up. Fine as soon as it stopped.

 

[Daz]

This may be the one and only time I get to say this, but............. god bless VM's cable tv lol

I guess this is the ONLY benefit over Sky, yea..

 

[Clart]

mine does it all the time. Sky want £60 to send an engineer to re align the dish. Fook that i'll do it myself!

 

[Mells]

It depends on where you live. If you live in northern scotland you'll get it more, also the far south i.e the south of spain.

Skys signal is pointed at the middle of the country and it gets weaker the further you get away from this.

Plus, the signal has travelled something like 125,000 miles before it gets to your dish. Interesting stuff.

 

[Tom]

Buy a cheap freeview box for bad weather.

 

[warine_warrior]

Buy a cheap freeview box for bad weather.

Or just go without tv for a short while now and then.