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

Remember the days when you just switched the Tele on:ugh:

Quite often cables get caught in carpet grips if they are secured against the wall. I had this with a TV extension cable a couple of years ago, but like anything it took ages to fathom out the problem. It seems the nails can go straight through a cable if it's not laid correctly.

There`s still more of a mystery to this. Not saying replacing the cable hasn`t cured the issue, but bare in mind that if it was something like carpet tacks etc then the fault must have been an open circuit inner core. If a carpet tack went through a cable then I suspect the PSU fuse would have blown. [Internal] It would be quite difficult to open circuit the braid without completely severing the cable, again blowing the fuse. Cable was probably pulled around some brickwork at some time. Just my tuppence worth.

Just another tuppenceworth: I know that coax, Cat5 cables, etc. can survive lots of abuse; been a serial abuser in me time. But occasionally, bending just once round a right angle can get you, even if you straighten it up and pretend it never happened. (Wot, me, guv?) Or maybe it had been bent before it ever reached SHJ towers, and chose, as usual, an unpredicted moment to give up.
I seem to remember some sort of law which governs this...

Yup. That's what I always believed, too. Until IT happened.

In my situation, apart from a few zip-ties, there are no cable clips or sharp bends along the 25m cable run. No bite marks or chewing (one prefers cashews ;) ) so as mentioned there must have been an unseen kink or bend in the cable that after a few years of service decided to give up….. It all works, so as to why it didn't will remain with the SKY Gods.



SHJ