Having had DirecTV on the roof for a few years, and having experienced regular significant signal loss events during heavy rain and snow (loss of reception was a rather good predictor that "the skies were about to open up" with rain), I can confirm that signal strength deteriorates noticeably during these events. They are in the same general frequency range. There are distinct frequencies where the loss is even more significant.
DirecTV probably tells you that this doesn't happen, but they are wrong; but that's their salesmen speaking. Experience shows that it's real. When it rains, I could watch the signal levels drop on their meters, then watch the channel banks disappear. If someone had reasonably good GPS reception, then the signal loss might be small enough to go unnoticed by the majority of users. If your friend's reception was already near borderline, then it should be obvious that any little bit can put it over the top. I think your friend did not imagine it. I think the loss is more than a few dBs when it's raining, not trivial. It's probably small when it is just cloudy, but like I say, under the right conditions even a small change can put it over the top. Andy _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
