RTV having problems again?

[Dee_Ann]

RTV is just awful today and the sky is crystal clear here.

I forget where the are sending it up from but are they rained or snowed out again!

Can we have a RTV relief fund? Pool our spare change and send it to them for a better going up satellite dish??? Like a bigger one or maybe a rain cover? There must be a better way.

 

[Bill_KY]

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[giovanni1]

I noticed problems last night to. Kept losing signal completely, then back up a few minutes later.

But here in southern Ontario, we were in the midst of our first snowfall of the year, so I blamed it on that!

Maybe I was wrong.

 

[ken2400]

Could be the weather at the uplink site?

http://image.weather.com/images/maps/current/curwx_600x405.jpg

 

[Dee_Ann]

Could be the weather at the uplink site?

http://image.weather.com/images/maps/current/curwx_600x405.jpg

That's what I was wondering. Can't they like put up a better dish or a rain cover for it??

 

[AcWxRadar]

I noticed problems last night to. Kept losing signal completely, then back up a few minutes later.

But here in southern Ontario, we were in the midst of our first snowfall of the year, so I blamed it on that!

Maybe I was wrong.

I blamed it on my own local weather, also. I can't even get in my car without shoveling! Blowing pretty good, too. Probably the weather at the uplink, maybe a little of both.

RADAR

 

[tvropro]

RTN is down by me about 30Q vs normal of 45 or so. NBC color bars also is at 88-90 vs 99. We have a sleet mix coming down now, with temps dropping and 45mph wind gusts. I also notice my Starchoice is down from 96 to 93Q. I blame it on my local weather. C band is rocking as usual

I saw on the weather earlier today this same system that is dumping snow to the NW of me is pounding the RTN uplink with rain, so Im sure thats an issue. KU does not play well with bad weather at all. C band is a bit more robust.

 

[Bill_KY]

I get RTN from my Cincinnati affiliate, Ch 25. But the weather is here is very windy with expected gusts to 60 MPH. Hope the satellite dishes hold out OK.

 

[B.J.]

RTN is down by me about 30Q vs normal of 45 or so. NBC color bars also is at 88-90 vs 99. We have a sleet mix coming down now, with temps dropping and 45mph wind gusts. I also notice my Starchoice is down from 96 to 93Q. I blame it on my local weather. C band is rocking as usual

Strange morning here in Maine. Just the opposite.
We're in the middle of a blizzard here. About 7" of snow in the last 2 hours, and another 7" predicted.
My Ku on the Fortec 90 is about as good as it's ever been on everything I've tried.
Even my Wild Blue is better than ever, even though it often goes out in a heavy fog.
(Snow just slides off the offset dishes.)

C-band is DOWN. (8" of snow in the dish)

 

[turbosat]

We had a pretty good windstorm come through with that cold front approaching, here in the south. RTN uplink may have gotten blown off course or waterlogged lol. Usual weird weather here, 60 at dark yesterday, temp rose to 67.3 by midnight, dropped a few overnight and is at 63 now, going into the 20's tonight.

 

[Bill_KY]

We had a pretty good windstorm come through with that cold front approaching, here in the south. RTN uplink may have gotten blown off course or waterlogged lol. Usual weird weather here, 60 at dark yesterday, temp rose to 67.3 by midnight, dropped a few overnight and is at 63 now, going into the 20's tonight.

We were 53 @ 5:00 this morning, it is 39 now but we are going down to 29 by tonight... and Thursday won't be higher than 27.

 

[AcWxRadar]

We were 53 @ 5:00 this morning, it is 39 now but we are going down to 29 by tonight... and Thursday won't be higher than 27.

It's a balmy 8 degrees F here, and the sun is shining!

RADAR

 

[Dee_Ann]

I'm running the air conditioner the past two days.
We had a cool front last week and 12hrs of 29f (very rare). Yesterday it was 72f so the house slab is sweating like a glass of ice tea. The garage is soaking wet and some rooms in the house too. Running the a/c helps. It NEVER gets cold here, just a few cool fronts during "winter".

 

[guapoharry]

I noticed this also. IMO, it was the weather at Chattanooga.

It is clear now. But yesterday, there were yellow and orange returns on the Doppler radar which usually indicates precipitation. By the time It Takes a Thief came on, the problems seemed to be over...

As I understand it, Ku band radio waves are susceptible to being blocked by rain. (something about the wavelength of Ku radio frequency is absorbed by things that are the size of raindrops, - it's a physics thing.)

If you wanted to avoid outages due to weather, they could uplink RTV on C-band. But then, you would have to get a bigger dish to receive it.

Another possibility would be to have Ku uplink sites far away from another. When one is being rained out, the other might not have the same problem. (Big expense)

 

[Dee_Ann]

It is slowly improving thank goodness. I like "Daytime".

 

[ynnedibanez]

around here rtv comes in on channel 19.3
they called the satellite company i work for (advanced satellite technology) about half a year ago or so because they kept loosing their feed.
we went up there and the dish (1.2m) was peaked already and the cabling tested fine.
we assumed that it was a bad receiver, but now i wonder if it was just a weak transponder.
i think ill go out now and point a dish at amc 9 and compare it to 19.3 next time they loose their feed.
well im off to point a dish
ttyl,
Denny

 

[Conky]

I blame my hairline on the RTV signal

 

[gmd63]

C band is rocking as usual

I just put the S2 add-on board in my Pansat 9200 last night and scanned in all the C-Band RTV.... I said thank Goodness! to myself, a high signal for a change.