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Fear The Walking Dead

I was trying to continue watching episodes to catch up on the fear of The Walking Dead and it’s not showing up on the app

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Rain Fade

I have a standard 18" dish with a 95 reading on signal strength.I occasionally get rain fade dropout-sometimes for several minutes at a stretch. My question is would switching to a 30" dish completely eliminate rain fade if properly aligned.

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Southern Rain

I live in Georgia. Why does my reception go out every time we have a thunder bumper?  The rain is heavy, but brief.  We have them almost every day in the summer and every  day the satelite goes down.  The local service rep says their is nothing they can do.  They reposition the satelite dish several

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Gemini Air Randomly Hops to Fear Zone

Hi, Technical Support was unable to help me with this problem. I'll leave my Gemini/tv on when I leave the house, and then often notice when I return home, the Fear Zone show is on. This is not showing on any channel I have access to. It's freaking me out. Please help!

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rain fade

Anybody out there know someone who can PROPERLY align a dish SO the local HD channels aren't lost with the onset of rain. They loose signal long before the local sd channels do. Has to be a monsoon to loose sd, but only light rain to loose hd. Live in the Triad region of NC, (Greensboro, High Point,

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771 code for hours during and after rain

We had rain around 2 am Tuesday morning and TV didn't come on until 2:30 pm next day. Had a service call but when it came back on, cancelled it. Now we had rain overnight and light rain now. Nothing on TV. A friend who has DirecTv said theirs is only out during a heavy rain. Please have someone

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Losing SWM signal during rain storm

I am having the first big rain storm since installation and lost all of my signals.  Should I lose my signal to SWM?  I figured that was a hardline connection?

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After rain signal lost

After a lengthy rain the signal is lost for several hours.  It can be clear skies and the signal will show zero strength.  We have two dishes...one for local channels and one for upper channels.  Tonight (clear skies after a rain two hours ago) the local channels are working...upper channels are not

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rain fade question

I have an AT-9 dish with an H-20 receiver. I have noticed that I lose signal on my HD channels, especially my local HD channels, with the slightest little rain shower. This was never the case with my 3LNB dish. With that it took a good storm ? or severe weather? I was wondering if it was possibly an

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Moderate rain and 771 error

Duriing a moderate rain event I received a 771 error. I have read previous strings on the subject and would like to know based on the signal strengths below if disc adjustments would help. I have attached a file with the signal strength readings. They greatly exceeded the message limit.

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wind, rain or snow...sometimes none of them...

Does anyone else ever lose signal constantly with the wind, rain or snow and sometimes it don't even have to be doing anything sometimes and we have to reset our receiver to get our channels again. I'm talking that when the wind varely blows we could lose signal. Always when it rains and sometimes w

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New Install No signal in heavy rain this morning

I had Directv installed on Friday.  @ 3 a.m. this morning I heard the heavy rain and decided to turn on my DS12-100 in my bedroom only to find an error and nothing was on.  So I went to the satellite and only thing under satellites is 101a and SWM.  The 101 reception was 0% and I just realized now t

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Excessive rain fade with slimline dish

I have an HR 20/100 connected to a slimline 5LNB dish, and I get excessive rain fade, especially on on channel 360, which I watch the most. I expect to lose the signal during a heavy downpour, but I often lose it during light rain. I don't know which satellite and transponder channel 360 is on, but

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771 in clouds and light rain

New customer. Service was installed on Sept11/12, 2011. Each time we have clouds and light rain, we get the 771 error.  It has happend on 3 different days.   Here are my numbers (but the rain has stopped):99c was all in the 60's and 70's during the rain and are nowhigher.  Satellite transponders (32

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Noobe question about the effects of rain

I guess I'm a little surprised that every time it rains I get a 771 error - kind of limits the ability to watch weather alerts.Is it normal to completely loose signal when it rains? I checked the signal page and everything was zeros. I checked the alignment and it's within 0.1 degrees. Is this just

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rain

Most of the time in the slighest storm I loose signal .I have checked with other people that have direct and it happens to them to. is there something wrong ? the sig strength is good .And I did not have this problem with Dish.

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Signal Issue even in mild rain

We have had DTV for about 2 weeks now. We get our local channels from Kalamazoo, MI or Grand Rapids, MI.   Every time we get mild rain we have either complete signal loss or the picture and sound become choppy.  I am not sure what is going on at this point.  Not sure if we need to simply tighten the

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Got a call saying DTV was upgrading its signal and that it would no longer suffer from rain fade, is this true?

new signal that will eliminate rain fade

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PPV options and rain

I have a Model: HR24-200. I also have a separate cable provider (TWarner) and the ehternet hooked up. A bunch of people are coming over to watch the UFC and want to have a back up plan if the signal gets lost in the rain. Maybe download via internet or use laptop. Any suggestions appreciated! Thanks

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Moderate rain and 771 error

During a moderate rain event I got a 771 error. Listed below are the signal strengths during a partly cloudy day. Are any adjustments needed? Any help is greatly appreciated. Tuner 1 (Tuner 2 has same readings) Satellite Transponders (32 total at 101*)1 - 8    98 95 97 67 96 99 97 999 - 16  96 96 98

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