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Monday, July 26th, 2010 11:35 AM

Loosing signal in thunderstorms very often

This seems to be a new problem as I never seemed to lose signal before during storms, but almost every time we get a good thunderstorm now, i get searching for signal 771.  Here are my signal readings

 

Satellite transponders (32 total at 101º)

[Most of your standard definition channels are beamed from 101ºW]

1-8  97 99 95 100 95 100 97 100

9-16  96 100 95 98 97100 96 100

17-24 97 0 97 100 97 100 99 100

25-32 99 80 98 51 100 100 98 100

 

Satellite transponders (3 total at 110º)

[A few HD channels, also beamed from 99 & 103º]

1-8 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA #

9-16 NA # NA # NA NA NA NA

 

Satellite transponders (11 total at 119º)

[Local SD channels for some cities, Spanish package]

17-24 NA NA NA NA NA # # #

25-32 # # # # # # # #

 

Satellite transponders (16 total at 99º(s)) [or 99º(b)]

[Local HD channels for some cities]

1-8 42 29 0 61 72 49 NA NA

9-16 NA NA NA NA NA NA 93 98

17-24 33 0 97 97 69 72 95 92

[Note: these can be very slow to appear]

 

Satellite transponders (14 total at 99º(c)) [or 99º(a)]

[National HD channels]

1-8 96 95 95 94 95 93 93 93

9-16 95 93 93 93 93 95 95  NA NA

[Note, these can be very slow to appear]

 

Satellite transponders (16 total at 103º(s)) [or 103º(a)]

[Local HD channels for some cities]

1-8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NA NA

9-16 NA NA NA NA NA NA 88 0

17-24 0 0 0 15 94 84 89 83

[Note, these can be very slow to appear]

 

Satellite transponders (16 total at 103º(ca)) ["0" until new D12 satellite live]

[National HD channels]

1-8 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA

9-16 96 94 95 92 95 91 90 91  

17-24 94 91 94 89 95 91 95 93

 

Satellite transponders (14 total at 103º(cb)) [or 103º(b)]

[National HD channels]

1-8 95 95 93 90 94 93 88 88

9-16 92 92 89 88 90 91 NA NA

17-24 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA

 

Satellite transponders (9 total at SWM)

[You'll only see this if you have a Single Wire Multiswitch (SWM) dish]

1-8 100 100 96 99 100 100 100 99

9-16 # NA NA NA NA NA NA NA

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