Yes,
TP 12060 H on AMC 4 is experiencing some problems. I typically receive it at 88-94% quality on my AZBox and it has dropped to 49-50%.
This sent me on a sort of wild goose chase earlier today as I thought that the storm we had locally had messed with my dish and tripod again. I took my SuperBuddy meter out to the dish and detected 65-67% quality. I normally receive a lot better than this, usually 94-96% on the Superbuddy.
I know that my dish was not well aligned since the storm before this one screwed with my tripod and I didn't really get it set back the way I originally had it, so I was still a little offset in the azimuth field, but doggone if I didn't try every angle and piddle with it until I could tell that it wasn't doing me any good. It was maxed out as best as I could possibly achieve. Then I switched my meter to a couple of other TPs on the same sat and they were all at 80%, 87%, 98%, 99% and 100%!
I went inside and checked this on my AZBox receiver and sure enough, all those other TPs were reading way high and 12060 H was reading extremely low (49% on the AZBox). I double checked all my other sats and they were all up to snuff, reading as good and as high as I usually or ever have.
It is very strange, as I wrote up a post just a couple hours ago addressing this very issue, even the title of my post was nearly identical to this one, but when I went to submit it, my connection with the site was lost! I couldn't get on any site, not Google, not Yahoo, not my weather (NWS) service, everything was dead! I thought it might have been my router, my modem or my WildBlue dish/tria... I tried everything possible to reset it to no avail. Then I called my WB tech support and got an automated message that WB was down in my area.
This occurred around 4-5 pm (CDT). Obviously it is back up now, but it really had me wondering! It was just the other day that I read something on APOD about increased solar activity. They even had a pix of a huge solar prominence from Tuesday or Wednesday. Not to be a conspiracy sort of guy, but it sure got me thinking!
The decline of the signal from 12060 H on AMC 4 is definitely real. What is causing it, I cannot say, but it is definitely a legitimate problem that is beyond our home receiving stations. All the other TPs on this sat are fine, as far as I can tell so far. My other sats are also fine.
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