I have been having a problem with my reception on my satellite dish. It seems that at night I have nothing, every satellite & channel I get nothing. During the daytime it is fine. When the picture goes it is gone, no fading, just gone. I suspected that it was the LNB that was burning out since this system is 9 years old. The hard part is this is for a C-band dish and I can not just go to WalMart and buy a new one like you can for a DBS dish.
After I opened the pool today I decided to walk through waist high grass to get to my dish. I made sure I had plenty of DEET on. I open up the ladder and start to climb up to access the "cone" and three wasps flew out. I suspected that I may have a nest inside and possibly it was blocking something or maybe a wire became frayed inside. As I carefully unscrewed the cone, more wasps flew out. I had to do this quick and bail from the ladder. Well I got it off and to my surprise it was full of old nests and new ones and lots of angry wasps! I used a little bit of wasp killer, came back in an hour, cleaned up the nests. I found the coaxial cable from the LNB to the receiver had the plastic and the insulation chewed off inside the cone. This was where a newly formed wasp nest was. My guess is at night time the weight of the nest inside caused the coax to touch metal and therefore cause a short. I replaced the 12 foot long piece of coax and all seems well.
I did all of this because I ordered HBO to watch the Sopranos!
Here is my nest collection. There was one active wasp nest on this side, the other side, not pictured was where they swarmed:
After I opened the pool today I decided to walk through waist high grass to get to my dish. I made sure I had plenty of DEET on. I open up the ladder and start to climb up to access the "cone" and three wasps flew out. I suspected that I may have a nest inside and possibly it was blocking something or maybe a wire became frayed inside. As I carefully unscrewed the cone, more wasps flew out. I had to do this quick and bail from the ladder. Well I got it off and to my surprise it was full of old nests and new ones and lots of angry wasps! I used a little bit of wasp killer, came back in an hour, cleaned up the nests. I found the coaxial cable from the LNB to the receiver had the plastic and the insulation chewed off inside the cone. This was where a newly formed wasp nest was. My guess is at night time the weight of the nest inside caused the coax to touch metal and therefore cause a short. I replaced the 12 foot long piece of coax and all seems well.
I did all of this because I ordered HBO to watch the Sopranos!
Here is my nest collection. There was one active wasp nest on this side, the other side, not pictured was where they swarmed:
