mc5w
join:2002-06-14
Independence, OH | reply to fiberguy
Re: Now this... Most cable service comes from satellites, but the cable companies and broadcast stations get to use bigger dishes for the ground antennas. A bigger receiving antenna means that when the signal fades during a rainstorm the automatic gain control has a chance to crank up the gain to compensate.
If the rain is really really bad, a broadcast station is going to be be broadcasting emergency alerts and the feed from the network gets cut off. Same for cable TV except they usually shrink the program picture and cut off the sound for the emergency alert. |
