This article is a professional advice on how to stop DStv signal loss, including other satellite TV networks during rains or harsh weather. You must have noticed that rainfall affects your view if you use DStv or any satellite dish TV. There are reasons this happen and in this article, I shall teach you how to stop or minimize it.
The rains are back and it is occasioned with lightning strikes and windstorms. Maybe have been wondering how best to safeguard your DStv or other satellite and cable TV service. Signal losses as a result of weather-related disruptions and other damages are very common. if you wish to stop it, this post will provide the answer for you.
During rains and stormy weather, people experience destructive lightning strikes, irregular power supply and terrible windstorms. These weather conditions are very injurious to your DStv signal reception. Other satellite TV as well as cable TV in your home are not spared. The strikes as well as irregular power fluctuations could burn these electronic gadgets, the windstorms make you lose satellite TV signals. However, you can optimize your DStv viewing pleasure if you knew how to checkmate it. Consequently, this gives you steady and pleasuarble DStv viewing all through the year.
How to Prevent Lightning-Related Damages, Boost Signal on DStv and Other Satellite TV
The first major protective step to take against lightning, rains and stormy weather is to ensure your home has a good earthed lightning arrest device. You may be a tenant in your compound and may not know if your building has this lightning arrestor. Asking your landlord and getting him to install it will be a good start. With the presence of a functional lightning arrestor, your DStv signal loss or damage would never occur.
Science taught us that lightning is drawn to the highest points of every environment. Ensure that the installed lightning arrestor is raised high above every other object in and around your building for effective protection of your devices.
Also avoid metallic sharp points from piercing anywhere along the entire DStv or other satellite cable system. From the satellite dish mounted outside, through the cable wires and down to the decoder, avoid interference from any metallic object. This metals could conduct electrical charges and when they pierce any circuit point of your DStv or other systems, some electrical faults could be generated which could damage your system.
Power Surge Protection to Prevent DStv Signal Loss
It is almost a custom in Nigeria that when rain comes, electrical power goes. Sometimes you experience dangerous power fluctuations which can shut down your DStv decoder or other systems even beyond repair. As a safety precaution, I advise you always use a voltage protective device. In addition, always switch off and unplug your DStv decoder or other satellite cable TV decoders when not in use. This is one of the best ways to protect your DStv and other devices during rainy seasons in Nigeria.
Protection from Windstorms to Prevent Signal Losses
Being a natural phenomenon in Nigeria, we do not have control over windstorm. Rather, we can only take measures to minimize its effect on our DStv. It is evident that windstorms affect your DStv and other satellite cable TV signal reception. You can read up Why Bad Weather or Rainfall Distorts DStv Signal and How to Stay Entertained
To checkmate the effect of windstorms on your DStv, ensure that your satellite dish is tightly installed. This will not eliminate its effect completely but will effectively minimize it. Always engage professional installers or technicians when working on your satellite dish.
Millions of people are on the DStv and other satellite cable TV service grid in Nigeria. Therefore knowing how to protect your DStv and other satellite cable TV during rainy season in Nigeria will largely benefit you socially and economically. Even now that Nigeria is experiencing another rainy season, there is no better time to implement these measures than now.
