Current System Status

I would like to make everyone that is fed from the Satellite Dish in Dartmeet Court aware (Westcott Street, Stannon Street, Great Cranford Street and lower half of Peverel Avenue West) that there is currently poor satellite reception due to a tree growing in front of the dish. Reception is more sporadic when it is windy, as the tree blows backwards and forwards causing up and down breakup. There were several options to cure this problem, though the one that Manco 3 have opted for is to upgrade the Headend in Oakery Court to Fibre Optic based, then run a link Fibre Optic cable from there to Dartmeet. The dish will then be removed from Dartmeet Court. This work will be carried out on Wednesday and Thursday (13th and 14th June), after which the problem will be rectified. I must therefore ask affected residents to be patient prior to this work being carried out.
Tony Macinnes, Technical Sales Manager, T2 Digital Ltd

We are very aware of a major problem causing disruption to reception at Poundbury at the moment, I have copied an article which describes what is happening:

High pressure affecting Freeview reception

Service update: 12 October 2010
We’re aware that unusually high atmospheric pressure occurring at present is causing reception problems across parts of the UK. Once the area of high pressure has moved on, your reception should return to normal.
Under normal circumstances, the signals from a television transmitter can only be received by those homes that have a direct line-of-sight to the transmitter.The part of the signal from the transmitter that is directed upwards simply escapes into space and is lost.
However, when there is high atmospheric pressure, the sun heats up the ground and the warm air gets trapped underneath the colder air above it. This creates a layer that is, in effect, a mirror for the television signals.
This means that signals that you wouldn't normally receive can effect your television reception. This can particularly affect homes on the coast who may receive interference from continental broadcasts. Viewers could experience pixilation, garbled sound and blank screens.
This occurrence should be significantly reduced with digital switchover as the digital television signal incorporates the ability to ignore reflected digital signals.
However, for those that experience prolonged disruption, the other options available are satellite TV providers such as freesat and Freesat from Sky.

We know that this is the cause as we were at Poundbury this afternoon and witnessed this occuring on a Spectrum Analyser Meter. The same problem is also affecting other locations we look after at Charlton Downe, Puddletown, Weymouth and Portland.

Unfortunately there is no instant cure for this problem though we will be looking to manufacturers for possible solutions in the coming days. I have been answering the phone from Poundbury and other location residents regarding this all day so please do not call in unless the problem is something different. This will not affect Satellite as is is ground based transmitters causing the problem.

Hi

We have been having problems with Sky signal breaking up over the last few days. Today it has got progressively worse. At this time, we can watch only some, mostly never watched channels (BBC1 plus a number of random ones - very little logic eg can get Sky Arts 2 but not Sky Arts 1).

Located in Moraston Street.

The error message is 25. We have tried all the ususl Sky recommended remedies, but it seems that the problem is with the feed from the dish.

Please look into asap. Wife gets very grumpy without her telly!

thanks very much.