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"Brenda Ann Dyer" wrote:

Our AFN-TV satellite dish looks pretty much at the horizon to see the bird
they use here. Under normal circumstances, we get a good solid signal with
a level of about 89 and a quality of 9 or 10. When it rains hard, that can
drop to 60 and 3 or 4.. and sometimes it goes out completely. It's funny
sometimes that there can be no rain here locally, but raining hard in the
distance between the dish and the bird, and we'll lose the signal
completely.

If the satellite is right down on the horizon, that comes more
into the category of DX than normal broadcast reception, which is
what most satellite users are interested in. If somebody parks a
pantechnicon or erects a tower crane, or a tree comes into leaf
anywhere in the next ten miles in your line of sight, then you'll
probably lose your signal for that reason too. Nevertheless, you
could undoubtedly improve your chances with the rain if you had a
larger dish.

--
Richard L.