koam
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1 edit | In NW Vermont, DirecTV vs. Dish coverage?
In the Middlebury Vermont area (between Burlington and Rutland), does anyone know if there is a difference in the reach of DirecTV vs. DISH?
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As both services satellites are within a few degrees of each other (at least the main/primary ones) virtually no difference.... but from that far north clear horizon to basically the SW is more critical as you are looking much closer to the horizon, and trees/hills/mts are much more of an issue, also fade a bit more of an issues as you are more looking sideways through storms them than nearly straight up through them we would be here in Key West, here we have the severe rain/torrential downpour, to know what is happening... up there it could be a severe storm miles to your south but not impacting you physically. (And conversely a small severe one right over and pouring on you might do nothing as you are aiming under it more close to the horizon)
And in either scenerio, it sould take realy torential rain to kill signal if properly set up.... though there you might have to look at regional radr to realize there is something just to the SW you aren't experiencing.
Another example of the difference down here, both look angle and pop up torrential downpours was at a beach bar the other day that had sat TV... and a brief severe downpour came through from the east... some one asked when it would end after 10 min or so... as it turned out the TV went out/sputterling at that moment.... so knowing it pointed SW.... said well core is already past us, and it took 10 min from first drops to come at us and blow over to it blocking a SW look.... should be over in about 6 min.... and it WAS  Sat outage more like 2 min, and again that takes severe high water density thunder/rain clouds. Flat as a pancake here but in summer we do have the mountains in the sky. (up to like 50,000 ft sometimes, which on rare occasion even produce hail where it is 90 deg F.)
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said by koam  :In the Middlebury Vermont area (between Burlington and Rutland), does anyone know if there is a difference in the reach of DirecTV vs. DISH? No coverage difference whatsoever. We get both services fine here in NNY just across the Lake from you. It all depends on what channels you want and which packages suit your desires. |
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