topic Re: Birds landing on the SKY aerial disrupting the TV signal in Sky Q

Birds landing on the SKY aerial disrupting the TV signal

mcfarlane+road — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 10:18:02 GMT

Everytime a bird lands on the aerial the signal gets interupted and the Tv signal is lost

Re: Birds landing on the SKY aerial disrupting the TV signal

Daniel0210 — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 10:30:12 GMT

@mcfarlane+road

Do you mean the satellite dish as Sky don't use your tv aerial?

Re: Birds landing on the SKY aerial disrupting the TV signal

lettice — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 11:04:56 GMT

If you mean the Sky satellite dish, it sounds like it is not secured well.
May need the brackets tightning.

I often get all kinds of birds land on my dish and have done over many years without any issue.
In fact there have been a family of baby sparrows using it from the eaves down to the ground as a quick first step in the last few weeks. Not one blip.
Have seen pigeons on my dish too, even with their size have never seen a problem.

Might be worth asking for Sky to book an enginner to check.
Let us know more about what you have noticed dnd we will direct you online to possibly book one.

Re: Birds landing on the SKY aerial disrupting the TV signal

Mark39 — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 14:37:28 GMT

@mcfarlane+road wrote:

Everytime a bird lands on the aerial the signal gets interupted and the Tv signal is lost

It's quite possible xfor birds sitting on the arm of the dish to disrupt the signal. Cable ties cut with a short free end pointing upwards are a good deterrent.

birds keep landing on my sky dish and disrupting my picture

mcfarlane+road — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 21:13:29 GMT

As soon as any birds land on the dish keeping out of the rain this disturbs my TV picture, spending more time chasing them very disturbing

Re: birds keep landing on my sky dish and disrupting my picture

GD1 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 21:43:22 GMT

@mcfarlane+road Did you not follow the advice provided in this original thread?

Re: Birds landing on the SKY aerial disrupting the TV signal

mcfarlane+road — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 10:12:02 GMT

Screen shows squares over parts of the screen the odd times the screen goes blank

Re: Birds landing on the SKY aerial disrupting the TV signal

Daniel0210 — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 10:14:53 GMT

@mcfarlane+road

Have you followed the advice previously provided? Has it improved the situation?

Re: Birds landing on the SKY aerial disrupting the TV signal

GD1 — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 10:17:36 GMT

@mcfarlane+road You're posting the same issue over & over, have you followed any of the advice posted since your original thread in April? If not the issue won't disappear on it's own.

Re: Birds landing on the SKY aerial disrupting the TV signal

TimmyBGood — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 10:28:08 GMT

@mcfarlane+road

Sky won't fit an anti-bird deterrent: if you want one you'll need to commission a local independent installer. There are various commercial products and DIY solutions available.

If the dish is actually moving and losing alignment when birds alight, Sky will come out to fix that.

Was my aerial problem which cannot be overcome I will stay with the system I have

mcfarlane+road — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 21:53:16 GMT

i complained regarding my interrupted reception on my aerial and birds resting on the aerial I wish to leave things as is at the moment and keep my subscription package as is.

Re: Was my aerial problem which cannot be overcome I will stay with the system I have

Daniel0210 — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 04:20:22 GMT

@mcfarlane+road

I have moved your latest post into your previous thread to show some background to this. As has already been explained it's a satellite dish not an aerial and you are still only telling other customers here.

Re: Birds landing on the SKY aerial disrupting the TV signal

Chodley — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 06:21:05 GMT

And you still haven't done anything to deter the birds I assume? 😉

Re: Was my aerial problem which cannot be overcome I will stay with the system I have

daveNOS — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 06:22:59 GMT

@mcfarlane+road I take it you have not done anything that was suggested to stop the birds landing on your dish?

Sky will not do anything as its not their problem, only you can solve the problem and you won't do that by continually posting here.