OT: Advice on buying a dish

JOZ · Post by **JOZ** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 3:06 pm

No Jack, I meant an hour at the most and that only happens VERY seldom. That´s not even a constant loss, just in and out. Yes, usually it just a few minutes of in and out and garbled signal.
 
 I just assumed a snowstorm would knock it out. We had a snow storm last winter at about *gasp* 8 inches or so and I can´t remember if it went out or not. If not, I guess you are good to go.

lessthanme · Post by **lessthanme** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 3:19 pm

Livin in Minnesota, never had satellite go out during snow storm. Only thunderstorms, and the outage never lasted long.

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 3:45 pm

Boys:
 
 You´re going to lose cable in a heavy electrical storm due to wind or power outage, so I´m not too worried about weather-related outages.
 
 When the weather is really shitty, I avoid using all electronic devices to avoid surges during electrical storms.
 
 Snow? Well, I´ll deal with that. Lord knows, we get an average of 115 inches per year yet you still see a lot of dishes up here, so I don´t think snow is a major problem.
 
 Thanks again for the tips!
 
 Take care,
 PK