In article , Paul Martin
scribeth thus
In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
In article , PeterC
scribeth thus
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:18:30 +0000, tony sayer wrote:

Now digital satellite does look good...

Until there's heavy snow or rain.

Not if you have an adequate -rain fade- margin in the system..

There are very occasionally rain storms which are so heavy that there's
no signal whatsoever that gets through them. I've experienced that one.


I've seen -one- of them in the last Ten years that took the feeds to the
land based TX'es out;!...

Compared to the impairment caused by CCI thats not bad going Dontcha
think?..

Oh, and if the snow settles heavily on your dish, there's not going to
be much signal until it thaws or you knock it off. (This happened to me
in early December.)

Not a problem here with the odd shape of the LNB blocks in use..
--
Tony Sayer