Thread: Rains

I am currently moving to Chennai where there are heavy rains and so I want to ask that Tata sky will work fine there or not because i have heard that there are signal problems during rains.

Rain or no rain.. if your dish is secured properly and doesn't move with winds your signal is going to be constant and rains don't make any difference at all.

Yes correct but I am in Panipat at my uncle's place and I saw a new problem here that there are monkeys on the roof and they dance on that disk and will make it move. Now he has ordered a cage for the dish.

If you put a metal cage on the dish it will interfere with the signal..

Originally Posted by agent

I am currently moving to Chennai where there are heavy rains and so I want to ask that Tata sky will work fine there or not because i have heard that there are signal problems during rains.

Rains will always destruct signal coming from satellite to dish and due to this in rainy season or on bad whether you will face this problem. and you cannot protect it, its always their.

I have lived in UK for so many years and I have sky tv over there with the same kind of dish attached to a wall and for those who dont know it rains almost every other day and some times rains for days together which goes on throughout the year and I have never experienced any trouble with the signal.. May be it might be a bit different here in India so can some other members confirm if this is the case?

Originally Posted by Admin

I have lived in UK for so many years and I have sky tv over there with the same kind of dish attached to a wall and for those who dont know it rains almost every other day and some times rains for days together which goes on throughout the year and I have never experienced any trouble with the signal.. May be it might be a bit different here in India so can some other members confirm if this is the case?

Can you confirm its drizzling or it just a heavy rainfall with windy whether, if its light drizzle then signal won't be affected but in second case disruption is surely their.

I have seen some very rough weather as well without any trouble with sky signal in UK but yes I do agree that rains are not as much as we get in India in monsoon season.

Yes correct but I am in Panipat at my uncle's place and I saw a new problem here that there are monkeys on the roof and they dance on that disk and will make it move

lolz......thats funny...ya the best solution for that is to put a mesh aur barbed wire around it....monkeys dont like hurting themselves :P

rains dont affect the signal of tata sky..in my hostel near shimla it rains and also snows a lot...however i have tata sky there and signal remains perfect....

Well if there are heavy rains then there are chances that there can be some signal problems. Like this is my experience.

Heavy rainfall with thunderclaps interfere the DTH signals - and this is true in India - both for DishTV and TataSky. This has everything to do with the transponder signal strength. DTH is still new in India and till we get the really powerful transponders this problem will remain. I have lived in UK and in UK there is never a problem.

j4x

Yes, it is true that during very heavy rains and thunderstorms, the picture quality dips drastically with tata sky, which i have been using for the past 6 months after getting fed up with dish tv. When inquired about the disturbance with tata sky customer service, they said the same thing that transponder issue, which you have discussed. I hope they improve it soon.

Originally Posted by just4kix

Heavy rainfall with thunderclaps interfere the DTH signals - and this is true in India - both for DishTV and TataSky. This has everything to do with the transponder signal strength. DTH is still new in India and till we get the really powerful transponders this problem will remain. I have lived in UK and in UK there is never a problem.

j4x

Might be in UK you won't be able to face this problem, but in india heavy rains and thundor storm will effect signal very much , i have both dishtv and tata sky connections and face problem with both its different that its more in one and less in other. but its their.

Originally Posted by neo001

Might be in UK you won't be able to face this problem, but in india heavy rains and thundor storm will effect signal very much , i have both dishtv and tata sky connections and face problem with both its different that its more in one and less in other. but its their.

Exactly what I said.

It depends on what kind of rainfall it is. If it is heavy then it would surely interfear with your signal and if it is not then it would not have any effect on your signal..

Rains do have a effect on your Signal. Like i had experienced this thing maybe it is not that much but still it does have effect.

I have never ever seen any much effect of rain on my signal but yes when there are heavy rains then there is some disturbance on the signal.

Normal rains are not that much of a big problem anywhere. In my area i have rain falls and i have not seen that much of a disturbance in my TV connection.

I dont know about TATA Sky but i had been using Dish TV and in normal rains i had never faced any big prolems.

Heavy rainfall would be the only reason in which you would not have good signal otherwise in normal rain you would not face any kind of problem...

With previous from viewing Tata Sky while it has rained heavily, i have found no problems at all, and the same applies to when there is strong wind. You may see a few faded lines slightly on the screen, but no such thing a heavy disturbance.

I have not seen any issues during rain
I have used it even when there is lightning and thunder with rain
no issues seen

Rain will affect all Ku Band transmission. But the rate is proportional to many factors like Antenna look angle, quality of antenna, variation of signal strength over the satellite footprint etc. Moreover this interruption will also vary with time.

I take my words back that i said about no disruption on the service from Tata sky when it rains. Its been three times now when there has been no signal at all during the rain................and yes it is very annoying, especially when you are watching something good!

Originally Posted by Preeti_20

I take my words back that i said about no disruption on the service from Tata sky when it rains. Its been three times now when there has been no signal at all during the rain................and yes it is very annoying, especially when you are watching something good!

Situation in Maharashtra is very bad - I would rather have the rains than DTH!!