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I've installed and tuned dishes for over 15 years. Contrary to your
statements, rain fade IS a problem in the southern US where I live
regardless of the dish size or LNB. When you get a storm surge from a 60 to
80 mph squall line and a hard, driving rain, you WILL lose signal...period.
Maximum downtime depends upon thunderstorm strength. Usually I'm down only
10 minutes.
I've notice that my older and much smaller CQG and Signal Equatorial
microwave band dishes do not exhibit rain fade like the 1m and larger Ku
band dishes. I suspect that the rain fade woes may be due to water
adsorption and hence greater signal attenuation in the Ku frequency band
than in the microwave frequency band. So a bigger dish size is not
necessarily better, though it can't hurt.
-Tony Haas
gerrit wrote:
>This should never happen. It seems that your dish is too small or
>badly installed - unless you live in an area with hours of monsoon
>rain with thunderstorms.
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