Does my sattilite going out have anything to do with the extremly heavy rain?

Answer 1

Nope, I think it would have rained anyway ;o)

Just kidding - yes, I think that rain does affect your signal.

Answer 2

yes both answers are true
in fact water does interfear with the signal

how does the satilite work?
1 the tv signal is beamed to the satilite up in space and from there it is beamed to a satilite dish at your house and anything blocking the line of the signal will display as garbage on your tv
2 what other things will cause signal lost weather wise? Clouds will do it heavy rain, fog, snow, hail, sand storm if in a area that has them, dust storms, or if the satilite dish is knocked out of alinement with the satilite causing weak signal
when it is lightning out and thunder you will not get good signal!
during that time be safe!! and a good rule of thumb if you got a clear sight at the sky with out any objects in it like clouds or overcast or fog or snow then you should have good strong signal

ok I am going to try to answer rain fade:

have you ever put a drop of water on a slide of glss and look through it? it destorts everything right? and when it rains there are a lot of rain drops that act like prisoms that scramble the satilite signal hanst rain fade (this was my guess with out searching now the search answer:
Rain fade
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In satellite communications, rain fade refers to the absorption of a microwave Radio Frequency (RF) signal by rain or snow, and is especially prevalent in frequencies above 11 GHz. It also refers to the degradation of a signal caused by the electromagnetic interference of the leading edge of a storm front. Rain fade can be caused by rain or snow at the uplink or downlink location. It does not need to be raining at a location for it to be affected by rain fade. The signal may pass through rain or snow many miles away, especially if the satellite dish has a low look angle. From 5 to 20 percent of rain fade or satellite signal attenuation may also be caused by rain, snow or ice on the downlink antenna reflector, radome or feed horn.

Possible ways to overcome rain fade are site diversity, uplink power control, variable rate encoding, receiving antennas larger than the requested size for normal weather conditions, and super hydrophobic rain, snow and ice repellent coatings.

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Answer 3

I have the problem of wind knocking my dish around and disrupting the picture as the dish gets knocked out of alignment. If the rain is heavy enough this could be causing it but I think it might be something called rain fade, don't know what that is.

Answer 4

YES. Rain,wind,snow......the weather makes satellite TV a real nightmare.

Answer 5

yes it does. we used to have dish network and when it would rain or be really windy, it would go out but usually in a few seconds it would be back to normal. good luck. Jesus loves U!

Answer 6

I have satellite and heavy rain DOES effect it only if there is high winds blowing too.
I have never had it go out though..........

Answer 7

yes often happens here in the UK

Answer 8

Yes, it does.

Answer 9

Yes. But it doesn't affect "spell check", m'kay???