A few weeks ago I bought a new TV and Freesat satellite box (Humax Foxsat). The previous installation was a Sky Digibox and mini-dish. I connected the dish antenna to the new set up and it worked perfectly.
Over the past couple of weeks there have been frequent appearances of a dialogue box announcing 'No, or bad, signal'. There then follows a couple of seconds of the picture freezing and/or pixellating and then things return to normal.
Looking at the diagnostic display, it shows signal strength as 100% and quality as 80%. Of course when I look at the diagnostic screen the TV is behaving normally. It occurs to me that the LNB might be showing signs of departing this world for the next, or possibly that the satbox has a fault of some sort or another. I'm keen to avoid the hassle of returning the box only to find that it is pronounced 'fit and healthy'.
The dish antenna has a good unobstructed view of the sky and at first it occurred to me that an aircraft might have briefly 'broken' the beam but given the number of occasions on which the fault has manifested itself, I think that this theory can be disregarded. Additionally, weather would not appear to be playing a part in this. There has been no heavy precipitation to absorb the signal.
Now............. does anyone have an idea what the problem might be, and if so, please would you be kind enough to share it with the wider world?
Thanks,
N o t a
PS I suppose that there could be a malfunctioning transponder behind this, however that would be likely to have created something of a stir.