normared
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Rain never fails to knock out my sat. dish TV reception, and sometimes will cause the TV antenna (digital local TV channels) on the roof to flutter and hiss. But I've noticed now that 'only' the wind is doing this more and more. Is there something I can/should do? None of the connections seem loose.
As a side note-- I recently installed the Winegard Wingman digital antenna booster and this seems to have made it worse. Maybe it's more sensitive now?
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camperpaul
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The wind may make the Sensar vibrate a little but that is not enough to mess up the reception.
Movement of the nearby trees is more likely the culprit.
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rk911
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rain..that i can understand. heavy rain can interfere with sat. reception and if it's heavy enough probably do the same with terrestrial TV. and the farther you are from the TV transmitter the less it takes to screw with the signal. but wind? something is loose somewhere.
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normared
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Yep - it's not trees, none are within 150 yards of me. Something must be loose all right... After years and years of great Comcast cable service in the home - I HATE the dish (at least when it snows, rains, or now - even if it's windy).
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rk911
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you know...what's loose could be inside the sensar head, where coax meets connector, heck it could even be in the coax. for the TV i'd start by replacing the short run of RG-6 between the batwing and the connector on the roof.
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We have our sat. dish on a low tri-pod --- it sits maybe 2-3 feet high (the very top). We were in Quartzsite, Az 2 yrs ago when a tornado sat down in Blythe, California (24 miles from us) -- we had 80 mph winds... our "neighbor" had a wind gauge. It was raining like all get-out, too. We did not lose reception....nor did the dish fall over.
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hershey
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Go to setup and signal strength when the wind blows and see if that signal strength becomes unstable.
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wagonmaster2
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If you're talking about your dish on the roof of your coach, mine does the same thing. Mine's a Winegard crank-up dish and there seems to be just enough slack in the dish mechanism that allows the wind to wiggle it back and forth just enough to lose the signal once in a while. Understand Winegard is supposed to have some kind of kit to take this slack out and tighten up the mechanism but I've never tried it.
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ferretgrandpa
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When I get Rain Fade, it usually is very severe weather, and to look outside. I have had the wind turn a dish, at home in the house, not with the tripod.
When we lived in a RV park (20 months in KCMO) only problem was tall units driving past(or neighbor fixing their antenna).
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