Rain and Satellite signals

[madrat]

Is there anyway to stop rain from breaking up or completely stopping satellite signals

[Analoguesat]

Yeah - put a bigger dish up!


If you are watching one of the super power sat slots then you shouldnt lose channels unless there is a real cloudburst. Water is a good absorber of the microwave frequencies radiated by satellites so you are going to get some loss if its raining.

If you are getting regular signal loss every time it rains on Hotbird, Astra 1 or 2 then theres something wrong somewhere.

If its loss of something really weak then you need a bigger dish.

[harrowwoman]

Rain or snow, I never lose a signal on Hotbird, must be doing something right for a change!

[Analoguesat]

Its rare I get any breakup too. Ive lost signals in the winter when half an inch of snow settled on the dish faces, but a quick sweep with a soft broom soon sorted that out. A real cloudburst overhead or out to our south east will occasionally knock out the signals too, but 5 minutes wait and its normally passed

[Jimdefruit]

It is usually the electrical activity in the heavens which causes the problem. Sometimes above your dish or more rarely above the provider's uplink dish(es)

[satsid]

cloud will always make some signel loss.light cloud your hardly notice signel loss.but if its the dark cloud your signel will go down,even if its not raining.If it rains very hard you lose signel full stop on most sats.It always pays here when getting a dish to go one size up from footprint.this can help if cloud is the dark suff.
sid

[madrat]

ops: I feel really stupid, I thought that even with the larger dish the recent storms were causing problems, well they were and they weren't. I did get a bit of picture brake up before the storm started but it did look like the end of the world in the sky, but then to my horror when it was bucketing it down and I checked the signal level/quality input 1 was fine but input 2 had disappeared. I then found out after the storm when trying it again input 2 doesn't allways show and its something to do with energy saving ops: same as the box going into standby over night. This is true I hope

All I can say is despite the rain (and it was heavy enough to rip some guttering down) I didn't lose the picture