The rain and your babeshow signals

I thought this might be a good place to conduct a little research into how the bad weather (mainly rain) affects the babeshows on other people's equipment.

Up until about 8-9 months ago when I upgraded to Sky+, my signals were as strong as an ox, so strong in fact that only torrential rain would knock out the channels - and then it was pretty much all of them and not just the weaker babe channels. But since the upgrade even a few drops of rain mean I lose about three or four from the 900s. I initially messed up the upgrade - which I did myself and (I think) inadvertantley moved the dish as I was attaching the twin feed lnb - so then got a Sky man in to sort it out. To be fair it's only been the last few days that problems have started again, but I can't understand why. Yesterday afternoon (during a bright, dry day) when I first booted up the Sky box (took it off stand-by mode), there was signal loss on 955, 950 and 914. This fixed itself over the next hour or so and I had no more problems. This afternoon (murky with light rain/drizzle) - once again on initial boot-up - I couldn't get 966, 914, 955, 950. Again this seemed to right itself over an hour or so.

So my question is this: How are your babe channels affected by the rain? Do you lose them easily - with only slight rain/drizzle - or does it have to really hammer it down before they drop off?

mainly only when it absolutley hammers it down. dont think it is the rain which caused some of the babechannels to go off as it happened yesterday when the weather was fine and also several non babechannels were also off

Hi Stan, over the last couple of days several of us have had probs with 914 etc see this thread,prehaps its been a Sky thing.
http://www.babeshows.co.uk/showthread.ph...hlight=914

Ive had to replace my Sky plus box 5 times in 3 years
A light rain does effect my signal but does not result in the loss of Channels, a meduim downpour can sometimes

(29-05-2010 17:24 )mrwotzup Wrote:  Hi Stan, over the last couple of days several of us have had probs with 914 etc see this thread,prehaps its been a Sky thing.
http://www.babeshows.co.uk/showthread.ph...hlight=914

Ive had to replace my Sky plus box 5 times in 3 years
A light rain does effect my signal but does not result in the loss of Channels, a meduim downpour can sometimes

Thanks, Rammy, mrwotzup. I've just this minute found that thread.

Remember when Sky Digital came out all those years ago? They said the signal would not be affected by the weather. LIES, all of it.

It has to be pretty extreme weather conditions for the channels to lose satellite signal where I am - heavy rain / snow is a killer to the signals.

I agree with Warwick Hunt, SKY digital should never have promised that the signals would never go down, simply because they cannot ever expect to keep promises like that. Liars.

Wind. Wind is what buggers my reception up. It can hurl down, like God enjoyed the first deluge so much he thought he'd replay his moment of glory, and everything stays visible, if a bit blocky sometimes. Soon as the wind gets up high enough to shake the treetops, I drop signal on multiple channels, including a random selection of the 900 channels.

The weather only affects my signal when it's really badly pouring of raining, luckily however I rarely get any of that kind of weather down here where I'm from.

I have noticed however, on the occasions when it has happened, certain channels would get affected worse then others. I recall channels like Bang Babes and Babeworld would get the worst of it, where as a channel such as Babestation would only experience minor picture problems, I wonder if this is the same for anyone else?

i still use the original sky equipment from when they first started,and the rain hardly ever effects it, the main time i have problems is when the sun comes out around this time of year.
which effects the signal badly,so gives me a chance to get some fresh air and a tan,so i suppose not all bad,but yes mainly its the summer weather that effects mine the most?

but not only daytime so can,t blame it on the sun.

No babeshows for me tonight, fucking shitty northern weather.