How To Get A Good Cable Satellite TV Signal

11/09/2012 12:04

After you have become a subscriber to a TV service provider, you won’t want anything to interfere with the perfect cable satellite TV signal that you will get accustomed to. However, there are things that you are required to do to continue getting a clear signal. If you do not carry out maintenance regularly, you might fail to receive a satellite television image.

 

After the satellite TV dish has been installed, you need to ensure that it has a clear pathway to where the provider’s network is located. The satellite usually receives a signal from your TV service providers and then sends it back to earth in encrypted form. Your cable satellite TV will then decode the received information while displaying the images that have been sent to your cable satellite TV. If there is a blockage in front of your satellite TV dish, it could cause an interruption to your normal service.

 

As a subscriber of cable satellite TV, you should pay some attention to your dish. Ensure that there are no trees in front of it as they are likely to interfere with the kind of signal that you are able to receive. This may lead to the picture freezing occasionally or even total interruption of the signal. Therefore, you should make sure you prune any trees that may get in the way of the signal.

 

Where you continue to get a poor signal even after you have pruned the trees, you should try to redetect the signal. To do this, you will need access to the satellite receiver inside your home. You should press the menu button then select SYSTEM SETUP. From there, you should select the feature on POINT dish. This allows you to do a review of the strength of the cable satellite TV signal. Where you notice the bar at the bottom of the screen appearing green, then you can get a signal. Make sure that the signal’s strength is over 100. If it is lower than this, you should try to adjust the dish position. This will require two people, one person indoors watching the screen and the other outside, adjusting the dish.

 

Some satellite TV subscribers decide to paint their dish, even though this is not fully recommended as it may prevent the dish from getting a proper signal. The signal may be lost due to factors that have nothing to do with either the subscriber or the TV service provider – a storm, for example. In which case there is little the subscriber can do to rectify the situation other than wait for the storm to clear.