To all those unable to sleep and hanging on the edge of their seats to know what happened to my SKY problem, tough! I'm not telling
I made sure the dish was as before, tick. I replaced the LNB, tick. I tested the standard box at another location and it worked, tick. I checked the cable and attachments, no damage, no knicks/cuts/splits, tick. So I decided to replace the cable as it was an unknown and despite the best efforts of the gremlins to sabotage the process, I hooked it up and BINGO! I'm just so relieved that it's fixed that I can't even wonder what it might have been….
SHJ