If your picture freezes or vanishes whenever the wind picks up, you are not imagining it. The Cape southeaster — the wind locals call the 'Cape Doctor' — is one of the most consistent dish-killers we deal with in Fish Hoek and across False Bay.
A satellite dish has to point at a single spot in the sky to within a fraction of a degree. Constant wind pressure slowly works cheap or poorly-fitted brackets loose, and once the dish drifts even slightly your signal drops — often showing as the dreaded E48-32 no-signal error.
The fix is not just nudging the dish back. We re-align to peak signal strength, then mount with marine-grade brackets and sealed fixings rated for coastal wind, so it stays put through the next blow off the bay.
If your dish needs realigning every season, it was never mounted for the Peninsula. We will sort that out permanently.
If your dish keeps drifting, our satellite dish alignment Fish Hoek specialists can remount it properly, and for any new installation our accredited Fish Hoek DStv installer team is on call.