Notes from our technicians on the things that actually go wrong here — salt corrosion, awkward lines of sight, storm-shifted dishes and multi-room setups that were never planned properly. Written for Simon's Town, Glencairn, Fish Hoek, Kalk Bay and the rest of the coast.
Six practical guides covering coastal maintenance, signal troubleshooting, multi-room planning, commercial installations and how to check an installer's credentials before you book.
Salt does not attack a dish the way a storm does. It works slowly, from the inside of the connectors outwards, and by the time the picture breaks up the damage has usually been going on for two winters.
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A satellite dish does not need a view of the sky. It needs a clear view of one specific patch of sky — and in a town built on a mountainside, that patch is not always available where you want to mount the dish.
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Most multi-room DStv complaints are not decoder faults. They are planning faults — points put in the wrong rooms, or a dish that was never specified to feed more than one decoder.
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A dish that has moved by the width of a matchstick at the bracket can lose most of its signal. That is the whole problem with Cape storms and satellite television.
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Guests do not review your satellite installation. They review the room that had no picture on the night of the rugby, and they do it in public.
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Anyone can put a dish on a wall. The difference between an accredited installer and a man with a ladder shows up eighteen months later, usually in the middle of a winter front.
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