It has been said the 30" dish is no better than the 24".....

[dankgus]

I have a 24" dish which is WAY better than the 18" dish. Well, Friday night I had some pretty heavy rain. Voom was out for a couple hours. I have to wonder if the 30" dish would have helped me at all.

Anybody have any real experience related to this that you can share?

If I had a HD DVR, I could record movies and save them for these rainy days.

THANKS!
--Dan

 

[PSB]

A 24" is better than an 18" a 30" is even better but in heavy storms it will still cut out, that is satellite! I have a 30" that I use for DBS and the rain outages are few and far between but they still happen!

 

[Mr Tony]

I use to use a 20" for ExpressVu..had many outages

Switched to a 30"...outages happen in heavy rains

now I use a 24"...can use the 30 for free to air stuff (fta is 30" minimum)

 

[mbarnes]

While I haven't tried one with DISH yet (one of these days ) I have some 2.4 meter dishes for other Ku services and still get rain fade. Nothing's perfect!

 

[jimmykce1]

I have a 30 inch dish and still have rain fade when its really downpouring.