[Closed] Freesat signal in Cheshire area - gone down?

Surely there is only one satellite for everyone wherever you are in the country!?

PANIC!!!!

Could be?? In that case the box seems buggered...one of those days!

essel I like tv - ok with you?

Yes, would affect everyone including Sky as the free channels are the same satellite feed.

Check cable, check dish. Does the box have a signal strength page?

Is it really pissing it down at the moment? Dense enough clouds and rain can block the signal.

Tree or building in line of sight of the satellite (direction dish is pointing)?

Not in Cheshire, but our Freesat box reporting weak or no signal today. Was fine when I switched off last night.

Done all the usual checks but can't see anything obviously wrong. Have resorted to calling someone out to properly check dish alignment, etc.

Thanks colournoise, can you post up the conclusion when you have it?

could this be a software glitch?

In yorkshire- no signal for us earlier tonight. Turned box off and left it, will check tomorrow

One of mine is having the same problem at the moment

I have 2 fed from a single dish - the older one is working, newer one isn’t. Software is up to date. Most strange

Still knacked for me this morning, anyone enlightened as to why this is happening?

Speculative but GPS jamming trials are taking place in the north of England until the 19th October.  High pressure may be compounding this.

I've got no phone signal in Mid-Cheshire on O2, it was fine up until 09:00 then it scarpered

Speculative but GPS jamming trials are taking place in the north of England until the 19th October.  High pressure may be compounding this.

GPS signal is around 1GHz, Satellite TV is around 10GHz - there is very, very little chance of interference between the two.

Rachel

Something weird is going on with Freesat HD,  we could get most channels but a few were showing as 'no signal', including CBeebies (nightmare!)

Tuesday night the old SKY box reported "a technical fault on this channel" for all channels. The HUMAX box was fine. Last night we couldn't get BBC2 HD on the HUMAX but BBC 2 non-HD was fine. We're in Brittany so reception is less than optimal.

I had to rescan for channels last night to get the picture back, the signal reading was good/excellent but the screen displayed no signal being received. Got it back just in time for Grand Designs - Twin Hipster Douchebag episode.

There was a power cut in Dunblane yesterday around mid afternoon and then we had one at work around 5pm in Edinburgh... is it the EU power being cut off to those places that voted remain??

Ahhh, the re scan thing worked for me too!

All very odd...

Satellite 10GHz according to Google, though may be a carrier?

i live in Cheshire  and it was fine on sky and on my freesat tv so dunno if that helps.

I thought Astra beamed the whole across Europe so it always on or off.

Maybe Freesat is off but try the other Astra channels like those crap Babesration channels lol

A transponder dropped off (not in the fell to earth sence) this week so they may have swapped the channels to a different one on the Sat.

Retune and it should be good.