killdeer
Inactive User
I was going to title this thread saying something like ' Inexplicable Fade of Signal', but I'm pretty sure I know what caused the problem.
This morning, at roughly 8.15, I moved my dish over to 53.5 east to see if a feed I'd been watching recently was active again. Sadly not, but I scrolled through my list of normal channels. getting a decent enough signal quality. I switched from USALS to DisEqC1.2 to peak the signal but quickly became confused by a steady drop in quality.
I moved the dish a little from side to side but pretty rapidly I lost signal on all channels. At this point in time, the sun was beginning to rise over the roof of a nearby house and I thought perhaps the sudden rise in temp of the LNB might be causing the situation. So I moved the dish over to 45 east and everything was as normal. Then it occurred to me that the sun was almost exactly behind the 53.5 east position a little earlier.
Swinging the dish back to 53.5 east, I was now getting my normal signal qualities on all channels. This is the first time I've managed to pin down the reason for sudden signal loss like this but a quick google searched revealed this to be a regular albeit transient phenomenon.
This morning, at roughly 8.15, I moved my dish over to 53.5 east to see if a feed I'd been watching recently was active again. Sadly not, but I scrolled through my list of normal channels. getting a decent enough signal quality. I switched from USALS to DisEqC1.2 to peak the signal but quickly became confused by a steady drop in quality.
I moved the dish a little from side to side but pretty rapidly I lost signal on all channels. At this point in time, the sun was beginning to rise over the roof of a nearby house and I thought perhaps the sudden rise in temp of the LNB might be causing the situation. So I moved the dish over to 45 east and everything was as normal. Then it occurred to me that the sun was almost exactly behind the 53.5 east position a little earlier.
Swinging the dish back to 53.5 east, I was now getting my normal signal qualities on all channels. This is the first time I've managed to pin down the reason for sudden signal loss like this but a quick google searched revealed this to be a regular albeit transient phenomenon.
