129 signal strength, what is good?

[EmpireState]

Does anyone know what a good signal strength should be on 129 for someone in Des Moines, Iowa?

I have a vip722 with 1 dish and lost a couple Voom channels last night during moderate rain.

 

[old corps]

Anything around 50. Depends on the TP. My best is usually TP30, the worst TP6.

Ed

 

[EmpireState]

Yeah, I noticed 6 was one of the worst last night. 22 and 23 were bad too.

-thanks

 

[kerry]

im in pikeville, ky and my 129 is 52 Is that good?

 

[old corps]

im in pikeville, ky and my 129 is 52 Is that good?

Yep

 

[lawn wrangler]

Does anyone know what a good signal strength should be on 129 for someone in Des Moines, Iowa?

I have a vip722 with 1 dish and lost a couple Voom channels last night during moderate rain.

I lost the VOOM and other channels last night too, in Sioux City. The channels that did come in on 129 were showing a strength of like 12.
I am thinking that I need to re-aim, it wasnt raining that hard.

 

[EmpireState]

I lost the VOOM and other channels last night too, in Sioux City. The channels that did come in on 129 were showing a strength of like 12.
I am thinking that I need to re-aim, it wasnt raining that hard.

The channels I could get last night had pretty low signal strength too, less than 25%. I lost Big Ten and a few Voom channels, everything else was fine. Not sure if you need to re-aim though, it depends on how bad your storms were. We had green and dark green rader images directly over head at the time the signal dropped out. That lasted less than a half hour. I just checked my signal strength on 129 an hour ago and even with light rain coming down I hit 50% on some TP’s. It was closer to 30% on TP6 and a few others but the HD picture was still very nice. I have just the one dish, and from what I’m hearing those signal strengths are about as good as it gets. Someone let me know if I’m wrong.

 

[jrp]

Does anyone know what a good signal strength should be on 129 for someone in Des Moines, Iowa?

I have a vip722 with 1 dish and lost a couple Voom channels last night during moderate rain.

I lost the VOOM and other channels last night too, in Sioux City. The channels that did come in on 129 were showing a strength of like 12.
I am thinking that I need to re-aim, it wasnt raining that hard.

I'm near Des Moines, and I lost 129 to rain fade for a short while last night as well. Was watching the Twins on FSN-North. Not common for me, but not unexpected when it rains hard.

 

[RVD420]

You can expect some rain fade on 129 until ceil-2 get in place later this year.