Doh!! What happened to my KU?

[iBoston]

So, last night i wanted to watch PBS. Tuned to 125w and nothing. Tuned to 89w nothing. I even noticed my dish was moving. What the HECK??? It's been so reliable? Wind? LNB? Nice clear day today, thought i would look at the dish to see if i could see anything visually obvious. The RG6 from the lnb to the motor is just hanging down. It unscrewed itself!! Grabbed the ladder, climbed up and hand screwed it back in. Walked back inside, and WALA.

Being i ran out of good weather, i still have the cables hanging down not tied to the dish. I suspect that running the motor back and forth slowly loosened it right off. I'm looking forward to spring so i can button everything up nice and neat.

I am just happy it wasn't an alignment issue. It's just too cold to be fiddling with it.

 

[FTA4PA]

So, last night i wanted to watch PBS. Tuned to 125w and nothing. Tuned to 89w nothing. I even noticed my dish was moving. What the HECK??? It's been so reliable? Wind? LNB? Nice clear day today, thought i would look at the dish to see if i could see anything visually obvious. The RG6 from the lnb to the motor is just hanging down. It unscrewed itself!! Grabbed the ladder, climbed up and hand screwed it back in. Walked back inside, and WALA.

Being i ran out of good weather, i still have the cables hanging down not tied to the dish. I suspect that running the motor back and forth slowly loosened it right off. I'm looking forward to spring so i can button everything up nice and neat.

I am just happy it wasn't an alignment issue. It's just too cold to be fiddling with it.

Glad to hear it was a simple fix. They are calling for more snow here tomorrow and a wintry mix Tuesday. Be glad to see Spring come myself.

 

[T134]

At least it was obvious so you didn't freeze your you know what off to trace it. Last winter I had something similar happen but the cable on the LNBF end was just loose enough to not have a good connection. Took quite awhile to trace that back. Of course these things only happen in winter!

 

[Cosmo Blatz]

Was there a DIRECTV truck in the neighborhood right before you lost signal?

 

[Kraven]

Mine's buried in snow stuck on 97w...she aint moving for a while

 

[iBoston]

Oh my GOSH, you people got great senses of humor...If the floor wasn't so cold, I'd been on the floor laughing. Yea, it 'ONLY HAPPENS IN WINTER' is right. Yesterday, fired up the tractor to try and lower some burns down created by the snow plows so the car doesn't get bottomed out entering the street from our driveway. She started right up, but the loader wouldn't budge an inch. I hope to gosh it was froze hydraulics and NOT something else more severe. It's been a cold winter.

 

[danristheman]

Hopefully you don't live on a road numbered 103w directv guys are order to interfere with your dish. Then you can't figure out why receiver doesn't turn on. He he ha ha.

 

[chaskuchar]

not much snow here but so cold. dishes have been working all winter without needing help. now that I've said it, something will break... chas