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Temporarily taking down our sky

tuuti776655 — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 15:05:17 GMT

We are having the house rendered and the chap has asked that we take down our sky q dish.

He said we can replace it two days later when its dry. Anybody have any tips? If we take it off the wall will we lose sky q and the broadband until it is put back up?

Are we better asking a sky installer to remove and replace it? Does the sighting need to be exact?

Apologies if the question is mundane and the answer obvious but I know my limitations. Scaffold is up so it is very easy to access I may add.

All advice gratefully received

Thank you

Re: Temporarily taking down our sky

GD1 — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 15:09:16 GMT

@tuuti776655 wrote:
We are having the house rendered and the chap has asked that we take down our sky q dish.

He said we can replace it two days later when its dry. Anybody have any tips? If we take it off the wall will we lose sky q and the broadband until it is put back up?

Are we better asking a sky installer to remove and replace it? Does the sighting need to be exact?

Apologies if the question is mundane and the answer obvious but I know my limitations. Scaffold is up so it is very easy to access I may add.

All advice gratefully received

Thank you

You will lose Sky Q channels as there is no live feed, broadband will remain unaffected so you could use Sky Go in the interim period.

You can call Sky but there may be a wait time for their installer to be available, you may be better getting an independant installer who could do it when you need it doing.

Re: Temporarily taking down our sky

TimmyBGood — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 15:12:14 GMT

@tuuti776655 wrote:

Does the sighting need to be exact?

Very, yes, given its target is 22,000 miles away with the output power of a lightbulb. It's also sensitive on three axis (azimuth, elevation and skew) and so fairly impossible to align precisely enough without access to a signal meter.

Re: Temporarily taking down our sky

bob1234 — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 15:16:50 GMT

@TimmyBGood wrote:
@tuuti776655 wrote:

Does the sighting need to be exact?

Very, yes, given its target is 22,000 miles away with the output power of a lightbulb. It's also sensitive on three axis (azimuth, elevation and skew) and so fairly impossible to align precisely enough without access to a signal meter.

Just to add a suitable signal strength meter the cheap ones sold on amazon/ebay are just not suitable a suitable one will probably be dearer than getting a professional to put the dish back and align it.

Taking it down is easy enough if you are OK working from a ladder and requires no special skills so you only need to pay someone to put it back.

Re: Temporarily taking down our sky

Laing1 — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 15:44:10 GMT

@bob1234 wrote:

@TimmyBGood wrote:

@tuuti776655 wrote:

Does the sighting need to be exact?

Very, yes, given its target is 22,000 miles away with the output power of a lightbulb. It's also sensitive on three axis (azimuth, elevation and skew) and so fairly impossible to align precisely enough without access to a signal meter.

Just to add a suitable signal strength meter the cheap ones sold on amazon/ebay are just not suitable a suitable one will probably be dearer than getting a professional to put the dish back and align it.

Taking it down is easy enough if you are OK working from a ladder and requires no special skills so you only need to pay someone to put it back.

@tuuti776655 to add to @bob1234 thought. Some one was asking on here the other day about removing their dish and a suitable meter for puting it back up again. One of our regulars told them that to get a meter that would be suitable for a wideband LNB would be around £299 so possible cheaper to either get Sky to remove it at around £65 then a furthwe £65 to have it put back again.

Re: Temporarily taking down our sky

bob1234 — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 16:11:04 GMT

@Laing1 wrote:
@bob1234 wrote:
@TimmyBGood wrote:
@tuuti776655 wrote:

Does the sighting need to be exact?

Very, yes, given its target is 22,000 miles away with the output power of a lightbulb. It's also sensitive on three axis (azimuth, elevation and skew) and so fairly impossible to align precisely enough without access to a signal meter.
Just to add a suitable signal strength meter the cheap ones sold on amazon/ebay are just not suitable a suitable one will probably be dearer than getting a professional to put the dish back and align it.
Taking it down is easy enough if you are OK working from a ladder and requires no special skills so you only need to pay someone to put it back.
@tuuti776655 to add to @bob1234 thought. Some one was asking on here the other day about removing their dish and a suitable meter for puting it back up again. One of our regulars told them that to get a meter that would be suitable for a wideband LNB would be around £299 so possible cheaper to either get Sky to remove it at around £65 then a furthwe £65 to have it put back again.

I have a Labgear S501 it cost about £300.