BTV 2011 Outages Thread - Please read post 1.

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Tonight my Bell tv crapped out completely....most unfortunate since I had a friend over and had shelled out 65 bucks for Wrestlemania.

After an hour and a half (two calls, first one dropped) they told me it was a province wide atmospheric issue, yet I've seen no other complaints on here so my bs-meter is chirping.

Anyone else with issues tonight?


Edit by 57 - here's the thread from 2010 for previous information:

http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=126345

Weather outages can be caused by poor weather over your area, or poor weather over the BTV Uplink facility, located in Toronto. This thread is to track outages that affect the entire country due to weather or other problems at the uplink.

Please see and use the links below for Toronto radar if you have an outage. Please also report the amount of time that your location was "down".

http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/radar..._e.html?id=WKR

http://www.intellicast.com/National/...e&animate=true


Uplink Outage Dates & Times:

2011.06.08 - Thunderstorm in Toronto after 7PM EDT.

2011.06.24 - Heavy Rain in Toronto after 12PM EDT.

2011.08.07 - Heavy Rain in Toronto around 8PM EDT.

2011.08.09 - Heavy Rain in Toronto around 11AM EDT.

2011.08.21 - Thunderstorm in Toronto around 2:40PM EDT.


If you wish to find other previous similar threads, do a search for "rain snow fade". If your location was down for significantly longer than other people indicate in this thread, then you should consider re-aiming your dish and/or getting a larger dish.