Sky box packed up - snow

[williaa68]

We have had a load of snow here (Kent) and the sky box has packed up, which means grumpy children who cant go to school. It is on the roof and covered in snow so I am assuming I just have to wait for a thaw..?

[eybic]

If the dish is covered and you can get to it then clear the snow off. Last year mine stopped working, I looked out of the window saw it was coevered in snow, cleared it and all was ok.

[AndyFoo]

It could be one of two things:

The dish is so covered in snow the signal is blocked from the LNB.

Or the snow/rain clouds above are so think and dense it's causing the signal to be blocked from the dish.

If you're careful and have access to the dish, gentle brush off the surface and face of the LNB and see if that helps.

Failing that, try tvcatchup.com for most freeview channels.

[voyds9]

Luckily ours is only 8 feet off the ground so I brush it to get the signal back. The LNB seems to be the important part to keep snow free. Try snowballing it.

(No you perverts the other type of 'snowballing')

[y2blade]

clear the snow off the dish and LNB

[Emsman]

Or, rake the grumpy kids outside to play in the snow that's stopping them watch telly?

[Magic919]

williaa68 said:

We have had a load of snow here (Kent) and the sky box has packed up, which means grumpy children who cant go to school. It is on the roof and covered in snow so I am assuming I just have to wait for a thaw..?

For the hard of reading.

[eybic]

Magic919 said:

williaa68 said:

We have had a load of snow here (Kent) and the sky box has packed up, which means grumpy children who cant go to school. It is on the roof and covered in snow so I am assuming I just have to wait for a thaw..?

For the hard of reading.

Of course nobody has access to a roof do they? Mine was on the roof but next to a window so I could access it.

[Puggit]

The dish is almost vertical, so throw a ball at it and the snow will fall off easily

(or make the kids go outside and play...)

[C8PPO]

Magic919 said:

williaa68 said:

We have had a load of snow here (Kent) and the sky box has packed up, which means grumpy children who cant go to school. It is on the roof and covered in snow so I am assuming I just have to wait for a thaw..?

For the hard of reading.

Calm down dear, it's only a telly.

[williaa68]

Thanks all. Snowballs at the dish a great idea. It gets the kids outside, where they should be anyway, and it might just work. Sadly the dish isnt accessible otherwise (had to get some special sky "height" team when they put HD in last year..). Will report back!

[aclivity]

Fire up your pressure washer, and blast the snow off with water.

Nothing could possibly go wrong with this approach.

[Carpie]

Hire a helicopter and use that to get close enough to the dish to clear the snow off it.

HTH.

[Carpie]

TOP TIP: If you can't afford a helicopter, commit a murder locally and soon you will have a variety to choose from: Police, Air Ambiwlans, Sky News etc. I'm sure one of them would do you a favour and knock the pesky snow off.

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

Magic919 said:

williaa68 said:

We have had a load of snow here (Kent) and the sky box has packed up, which means grumpy children who cant go to school. It is on the roof and covered in snow so I am assuming I just have to wait for a thaw..?

For the hard of reading.

And?
Just get a ladder and tell the kids to climb on the roof and clear it?
How hard can it be/What can possibly go wrong etc.

[C8PPO]

williaa68 said:

Thanks all. Snowballs at the dish a great idea. It gets the kids outside, where they should be anyway, and it might just work. Sadly the dish isnt accessible otherwise (had to get some special sky "height" team when they put HD in last year..). Will report back!

Terminal velocity of the snowballs is critical though, otherwise they'll mis-align the dish and you'll be double-fked.

[Cotty]

voyds9 said:

Luckily ours is only 8 feet off the ground so I brush it to get the signal back.

Mine is only 6 foot above the balcony so a quick brush got the signal back. The actual dish has lots of ice on it but not affecting the signal.

[Dog Star]

Carpie said:

Air Ambiwlans

[Carl_Spackler]

[worsy]

Magic919 said:

williaa68 said:

We have had a load of snow here (Kent) and the sky box has packed up, which means grumpy children who cant go to school. It is on the roof and covered in snow so I am assuming I just have to wait for a thaw..?

For the hard of reading.

for the really hard of reading.....

Mine is in the lounge FWIW.