I have had a bit of trouble with E! Entertainment this evening whereby the
picture would breakup along with no satellite signal being received. The
signal strength on that channel would show 0% signal strength and 0% signal
quality intermittently. I only noticed because I accidently tuned into E!
Entertainment whilst the phone was in use. All the usual suspects seemed to
be OK ie CBS Reality so I figured it might have something to do with an Edge
mobile phone that was in use at the same time.

Anyway the Edge call was disconnected by accident then the person rang back,
as soon as the Edge call ended I went back to E! Entertainment and the
picture strength/quality had been restored to its former state of good
health. Strangely when the person rang back E! Entertainment was working
fine again for the remainder of that call but then another outgoing call was
made and the problems with the signal strength and quality came back then
normal service was resumed when the call ended.

So I am 100% sure the Edge mobile phone had an impact on that particular
channel whilst its not strictly a DECT phone which would interfere with more
channels it had an effect on E! Entertainment. I am relieved that its not a
dish alignment issue.

"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
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So I am 100% sure the Edge mobile phone had an impact on that particular
channel whilst its not strictly a DECT phone which would interfere with
more channels it had an effect on E! Entertainment. I am relieved that its
not a dish alignment issue.

The list of channels usually affected by DECT interference are as follows;

188 True Ent
321 True Movies 1
322 True Movies 2
365 Chart Show TV
366 The Vault
367 Flava
372 Bliss
374 Scuzz
376 DanceNationTV
382 NME TV
616 POP
617 Tiny POP
625 Tiny POP +1
626 POPGirl
627 Kix!
629 POPGirl +1

The channels which seemed to be affected by the EDGE mobile phone are;

151 E! Entertainment
281 The Active Channel
317 TCM
511 NDTV 24x7

That is not an exhaustive list as I had to go through each channel whilst
the call was active so there maybe others upwards of channel 511. It shows
that the DECT interference affects different channels.