06-26-2007, 05:27 PM
Well, the term in the industry is called... "RAIN FADE"... The only way around it is to get a bigger dish. You only need to go 1 Meter or 33" dish. This solves most people's problems unless you have lot's of trees around to degrade the signal even further.
The reason why we are worse off then mainland as far as rain fade goes is because the satellite is located in a gyroscoping orbit above Arizona ... Satellites have a foot print... Usually, the further out of the foot print you are the bigger the dish you need. But, Dish Network has high powered satellites and they are able to get away with using the small 18" dish anywhere in the 48 states. Furthermore Dishnetwork has the latest satellites and uses a newer technology called spotbeam, where they can direct more of the energy or signal in spots like North America.... Anyway, this is getting out of the scope of this discussion.
The thing you need for a crystal clear signal is a bigger dish. Ebay sells them all day long all you do is take your LNB and switch it from the small dish to the bigger dish...
Some people here will buy 2 30" dishes and two high quality LNB's. That way you can get both 119 and 110 birds. What does this mean? Oh about another 5-600 channels...
If anyone needs assistance or wants to get some dishes installed I could do the job.
Edited by - ericlp on 06/26/2007 21:30:45
The reason why we are worse off then mainland as far as rain fade goes is because the satellite is located in a gyroscoping orbit above Arizona ... Satellites have a foot print... Usually, the further out of the foot print you are the bigger the dish you need. But, Dish Network has high powered satellites and they are able to get away with using the small 18" dish anywhere in the 48 states. Furthermore Dishnetwork has the latest satellites and uses a newer technology called spotbeam, where they can direct more of the energy or signal in spots like North America.... Anyway, this is getting out of the scope of this discussion.
The thing you need for a crystal clear signal is a bigger dish. Ebay sells them all day long all you do is take your LNB and switch it from the small dish to the bigger dish...
Some people here will buy 2 30" dishes and two high quality LNB's. That way you can get both 119 and 110 birds. What does this mean? Oh about another 5-600 channels...
If anyone needs assistance or wants to get some dishes installed I could do the job.
Edited by - ericlp on 06/26/2007 21:30:45