GRrrrrrrr... all this damn rain keeps knockin out my DirecTV signal

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Spooner

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It's been raining on and off for like 23410 days, and my dish signal keeps gettin' f'ed up

STOP IT!
 
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MrBond

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Maximize your signal on a clear day (and mount that dish down tight) and you'll minimize rain fade.
 
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flxnimprtmscl

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I don't get how you guys have so much trouble. I live in Oregon where rain was invented and in three years of having dish I've yet to see it lose signal due to rain once. Like bond said, dial in your signal and cinch that baby down.
 
Amused

Amused

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Originally posted by: MrBond
Maximize your signal on a clear day (and mount that dish down tight) and you'll minimize rain fade.
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Yeah, but even when all transponders are in the high 90s-100 on clear days, a heavy thunderstorm will knock out the signal every time.

I hear oversized dishes can help, but I haven't tried one.
 
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Amused

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Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
I don't get how you guys have so much trouble. I live in Oregon where rain was invented and in three years of having dish I've yet to see it lose signal due to rain once. Like bond said, dial in your signal and cinch that baby down.
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Oregon rain showers are NOT the same as the huge thunderstorms seen in the midwest or on the east coast. You cannot compare the two at all.
 
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flxnimprtmscl

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Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
I don't get how you guys have so much trouble. I live in Oregon where rain was invented and in three years of having dish I've yet to see it lose signal due to rain once. Like bond said, dial in your signal and cinch that baby down.
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Oregon rain showers are NOT the same as the huge thunderstorms seen in the midwest or on the east coast. You cannot compare the two at all.
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Who said anything about thunderstorms? He just said rain. Regardless, it still can rain pretty freaking hard here and I've yet to see my signal fade or drop once *knock on wood*
 
ElFenix

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the cable signal was having problems with rain the other day it was so bad
 
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BDawg

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Our signal just came back (normally 98-99). We've had some severe T-storms here lately, and right at the beginning, our signal almost always cuts out.

At least the loss is predictable. When we had cable, it was constantly going out, for no reason.
 
Amused

Amused

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Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
I don't get how you guys have so much trouble. I live in Oregon where rain was invented and in three years of having dish I've yet to see it lose signal due to rain once. Like bond said, dial in your signal and cinch that baby down.
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Oregon rain showers are NOT the same as the huge thunderstorms seen in the midwest or on the east coast. You cannot compare the two at all.
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Who said anything about thunderstorms? He just said rain. Regardless, it still can rain pretty freaking hard here and I've yet to see my signal fade or drop once *knock on wood*
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Do me a favor and join a weather group to learn about weather outside your small corner of the world. On the west coast, you rarely see the type of thunder clouds seen in the east or midwest. The kind of systems that stretch far into the sky and look like mountains. They're so tall they max themselves out in the upper atmosphere and spread out sideways. Nothing gets through these storms. Anyone who says they can get a good signal through storms like these is lying.

This has less to do with how hard it's raining, and more to do with the mass of the weather system itself. The coastal showers you see in Oregon are nothing like this at all, no matter how hard it rains.

BTW, The east coast has been seeing a lot of these kinds of thunderstorms over the last week.
 
Amused

Amused

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BTW, if I seem like I'm being a jerk about this, I apologize. It's just that west coasters always seem to be telling folks how they must be doing something wrong if they experience rain fade. When, in reality, west coasters rarely ever see the kind of storms seen in other parts of the country.
 
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Paulson

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even with digital cable here the cable went out... and with digital cable, all your channels aren't in digital... just a few of them... and who wants to watch digital cable when the recievers don't even come with optical out?

C'mon people, get with the program!

(DirecTV is soooooo much better than cable could ever be)
 
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flxnimprtmscl

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Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
I don't get how you guys have so much trouble. I live in Oregon where rain was invented and in three years of having dish I've yet to see it lose signal due to rain once. Like bond said, dial in your signal and cinch that baby down.
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Oregon rain showers are NOT the same as the huge thunderstorms seen in the midwest or on the east coast. You cannot compare the two at all.
Click to expand...

Who said anything about thunderstorms? He just said rain. Regardless, it still can rain pretty freaking hard here and I've yet to see my signal fade or drop once *knock on wood*
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Do me a favor and join a weather group to learn about weather outside your small corner of the world. On the west coast, you rarely see the type of thunder clouds seen in the east or midwest. The kind of systems that stretch far into the sky and look like mountains. They're so tall they max themselves out in the upper atmosphere and spread out sideways. Nothing gets through these storms. Anyone who says they can get a good signal through storms like these is lying.

This has less to do with how hard it's raining, and more to do with the mass of the weather system itself. The coastal showers you see in Oregon are nothing like this at all, no matter how hard it rains.

BTW, The east coast has been seeing a lot of these kinds of thunderstorms over the last week.
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I think you're taking this slightly overboard. He never said anything about thunderclouds or what part of the country he was from. You can't blame me because he wasn't clear about what type of weather he was really experiencing. Besides, is it really that important that I know the weather paterns of all areas of the United States? I'm not trying to be rude either but I have more interesting uses for my time than trying to earn my junior weatherman badge.

Anyway, this is really not worth getting worked up over.

Btw, correct me if I'm wrong but considering we are, as you said, in a costal region with wet offshore air and constant rain wouldn't that mean a more dense cloud layer? Which, would more likely be harder for a signal to penetrate? I could very likely be wrong but that seems fairly logical.
 
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Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
Originally posted by: BDawg
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
<switches on TV connected to cable>
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And enjoys worse service and lower quality picture and sound.
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<switches on TV connected to digital cable>
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You do realize that digital cable is most ANALOG, right?

Pretty much HBO, cinemax and the pay-per-view channels are all that's digital.



<---has digital cable..not impressed..and wants the dish...




In the end, you DO know that everything uses satelites......? Cable can be knocked out too. Happens on ocasion here:|
 
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Beller0ph1

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The only thing that can knock out a dish is upper atmospheric disturbances. This includes and is not limited to electrical storms and solar flares. The thunderstorms in the midwest stretch into the upper levels of the atmosphere and the cloud to cloud lightning wrecks havoc on the dish signals. No matter how well you aim your antenna, nothing is going to get through. Now I'm no meterologist, but isn't Oregon-like rain just like a steady downpour with little to no lightning and thunder? It's not the rain that blocks the signal, it's the electrical charges in the clouds that do it.
 
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IamElectro

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Originally posted by: Beller0ph1
The only thing that can knock out a dish is upper atmospheric disturbances. This includes and is not limited to electrical storms and solar flares. The thunderstorms in the midwest stretch into the upper levels of the atmosphere and the cloud to cloud lightning wrecks havoc on the dish signals. No matter how well you aim your antenna, nothing is going to get through. Now I'm no meterologist, but isn't Oregon-like rain just like a steady downpour with little to no lightning and thunder? It's not the rain that blocks the signal, it's the electrical charges in the clouds that do it.
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I would agree my direct service has been in and out most of the summer lots of electrical storms here WV. never goes out when its just raining signal drops a little from 90's into the 80's. When you hear the thunder its not long before it goes out though.
 
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