Let he who is without sin cast the first stone

[John]

I have an oval dish w/ 3 LNB's and right now a storm rolled in with lots of rain. I lost my picture on the TV.....is this typical?

On a typical day I get in the 90's on the transponder signal tests.

 

[Kevin]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=38&threadid=1070650

 

[Syringer]

And you call yourself Elite.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

That's typical rain behavior in satellite based systems like that

 

[iamwiz82]

mine has dropped 3 times for long amounts of time. They have occurred when it was a blizzard(9+" of snow) and 2 monsoons(the last with hail). I have bene pleasantly suprised that it has been albe to keep its signal as much as it does, in fact.

 

[bolsen]

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
That's typical rain behavior in satellite based systems like that

 

Syringer: Don't diss on John dooder.

I hear contrails are the actual reason!

 

[John]

I knew I should have done a simple search....

 

[MacBaine]

The only time I usually lose a signal is when there is lots of lightning. I am assuming the ionization causes the interferance.

 

[AreaCode707]

This is another thread where I wonder how psychic the forums are. If you're a nonsubscriber (and your only excuse is that, like me, you're a poor college student!), note that the ads on the left are associated with the thread content. This happens in cooking threads too. :Q

 

Originally posted by: HotChic
This is another thread where I wonder how psychic the forums are. If you're a nonsubscriber (and your only excuse is that, like me, you're a poor college student!), note that the ads on the left are associated with the thread content. This happens in cooking threads too. :Q

Neat, huh? Google does wonderful things.

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: HotChic
This is another thread where I wonder how psychic the forums are. If you're a nonsubscriber (and your only excuse is that, like me, you're a poor college student!), note that the ads on the left are associated with the thread content. This happens in cooking threads too. :Q

Neat, huh? Google does wonderful things.

Dang, and here I thought the forums were finally developing AI.

 

[emmpee]

Someone told me once that if you put some sort of coating on your dish that prevents the rain from beading up, the chances of signal loss due to rain is significantly decreased. I forget what coating they used though :/