Satellite Dishes and Snow

[SkierBob]

It is not so much the snow on the dish, as it is the snow in the air. Snow in the air and also large rain falls, which does not have to be in your neighborhood, wil act like a tree and block the signal.

yep, I find this especially true with my directwav sat internet dish.   I lost signal here in Crowley yesterday during the heaviest snow fall and there was no snow on the dish. 

Then in the a.m. when the snow had stopped I had signal even though 6 inches of snow was in the dish. 

[Toolman]

 This is just to weird. We've never encountered any pixelation or lack of picture quality no matter what the weather delivers.

 Maybe it's the HF KW power TX clearing an ionespheric path path 

 Seriously, we have no issues at all with Direct signal responce in our locations. Rain, clouds, sleet, hail, nothing seems to disturb our signal at any given time. The only time our reception goes away is when the power goes out. Or... if I the dog chews up the remote 

[Wrightwood]

From this topic:

http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/forum/index.php?topic=4365.25

We have dish network and any time there is a drip of snow or even rain it goes out.

Here's what I posted:

It's probably out of alignment. A properly aimed dish will not have rain fade issues unless it's coming down really hard. The exception is if it's pointed through trees - as the moisture or snow builds up on the branches you'll quickly loose reception as the signal is blocked.


Rain/snow fade or rain attenuation does happen from time to time and causes momentary loss of signal or pixelation. A properly aligned dish reduces the amount of rain fade you will experience.

Here's more:
http://www.spacecom.com/customer_tools/html/rain_fade.htm

[MTHIGHLVR]

I like when the hills gets everything all fired up.