BTV 2011 Outages Thread - Please read post 1.

[Interceptor]

Thanks Pinza, it's sunny and warm here so I was hoping that was the problem and not my setup.

[Baal]

Yeah thanks.
Perfect clear skies in the Hammer. Was worried it might have had something to do with the roofer that was here earlier.

[Shanghai]

So I was in the US visiting family and noticed that their satellite didn't go down while we were stuck in a major rain storm with thunder and lightening. Given the multitude of the storm, I informed my cousin, that my dish would have gone down for sure. I'm like wow! So i asked, what about when it snows? My cousin says no??? I am puzzled as to how Directv never goes down when there are storms (rain, hail, snow etc.) what do they have that Bell doesn't?

[numba1killa]

I have never had a bad experience with my bev dish. it sits right on the corner of my roof vulnerable to anything. yet no problems even wtih 90 Km/H winds nothing!

[57]

BTV only has one uplink, so if there's a huge storm in Toronto, then the entire BTV system is down, country wide, as discussed in post 1 of this thread.

I believe that DirecTV has redundancy. The size and alignment of your dish also matters, again, as mentioned in post 1 for your conditions locally.

numba1killa: As noted in post 1 of this thread and the links there, you would have been down several times last year due to the uplink. What you have at your home is immaterial when the uplink goes down, so the only reason you haven't had a problem is because you weren't watching or recording when the uplink went down a half dozen times in the past year.

[dirtroad]

Thought it might have had something to do with GTA's weather, it went down during our local news in Manitoba so glad I still have OTA! I was a little concerned it may have had something to do with the huge solar flare recorded by NASA, but luckily no new zombie sats yet! At least the Aurora Borialis would be spectacular to watch!

[conundrum2]

Down for a few minutes in southern Manitoba, around 11:15 am central June 24. Weather clear.

Another storm in Toronto??

[57]

Yes, very heavy rain in Toronto - see radar links in post 1. Thanks for reporting - added date/time to post 1 list.

[dirtroad]

For the last few days transponder 5 has been out on 91 degree satellite, I suspect this has something to do with configuration of the satellite to allow for more locals in SD, unless anyone knows the reason. This is not a problem, just an observation. Don't use transponder 5 for trying to align a dish!

[Pinza]

Transponder 5 on Nimiq 91 is now 8PSK, so SD Receivers and Sat Meters will no longer see it.

Transponders 1 & 2 on Nimiq 82 have also gone 8PSK.

There is a National Installation Bulletin out describing it, my scanner just failed or I would have posted an image.

[Sybok]

I live in SW Ontario and we lost the satellite signal on both receivers a couple minutes ago. Clear here ... perhaps Toronto is getting hit with rain?

[Pinza]

Yep, that is my Guess, Radar shows a huge cell over Bell Uplink Station.

Signals now returned here.

[Tom.F.1]

I seem to lose signal twice for most rain outages. Storm passed uplink and I lost signal @ 11am, now storm is here and I've been out from 12-12:30.
Same thing sunday eve.
I'm about an hour east of the uplink as the crow(storm) flies.
P.S. I previously reported that bigger dishes helped. But now i'd say, didn't help much.

[57]

I've added the last two episodes to Post 1. Thanks for posting.

[tofinoguy]

I found it quite ironic that Sunday's outage was during the series premiere of Discovery's Curiosity, where Stephen Hawking was concluding that there is no evidence of a god. Perhaps this was a sign