wardfan
join:2007-08-14
Moline, IL
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Re: [Cable TV] Des Moines - Headend issues & Mediacom's Response
said by drr :
2) for about 8 days about 2 weeks ago, sunspots effect channels 2-78. couldn't tell you why, but they do, and it happens every year. (of course, my problem has been since June, so its not the sunspots). FYI it's not sunspots, it's actually the angle of the sun, it shines directly on the satellites and "blinds" the dishes. There's no way it could be sunspots BTW, they are even more unpredictable then Mediacom's phone service. |
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burner50
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EN22wm
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| said by wardfan  :said by drr :
2) for about 8 days about 2 weeks ago, sunspots effect channels 2-78. couldn't tell you why, but they do, and it happens every year. (of course, my problem has been since June, so its not the sunspots). FYI it's not sunspots, it's actually the angle of the sun, it shines directly on the satellites and "blinds" the dishes. There's no way it could be sunspots BTW, they are even more unpredictable then Mediacom's phone service. Sun outages happen on random "blocks" of channels but only 2x per year and usually gets fuzzy then goes completley out then get fuzzy and is normal.
the sun lines up behind the orbital satellite and the radiation oerpowers the RF radiation from the satellite so the terrestrial sat cannot recieve anything but the un radiation...
not sunspots... »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_outage |
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wardfan
join:2007-08-14
Moline, IL | Funny, that's exactly what I said. |
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burner50
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EN22wm | yep... kinda..
but my explanation decribes the symptoms and gives a probable occurence count |
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