Dead transponder on E3 61.5W?

[xts]

I was watching Back to the Future III on 61.5W (HBO Family HD) and the signal just went poof.

The other transponders on E3 appear to be fine... Transponder 24, 12559 MHz is the culprit. Can anyone else confirm it's down? It's a clear sky here...no huge bird crap on my LNB/dish or anything

Update: T24 had zero signal. It's now very weak and bouncing all around. Too weak for picture. The other TPs are normal signal strength.

 

[Bradp56]

I am having an issue as well

 

[DBS Commando]

Not sure what's going on - my signal meter on Tp 24 is going all over the place.

Was at 0, then 50, went down to 0, back to 50, down to 13, up to 22, down to 20, down 15. . .

and it goes on

 

[xts]

Glad I wasn't imagining things... I hope they fix it or it's nothing major.

Seems to have stabilized a little bit now.

 

[CharlesO]

Strong storms in Arizona tonight....similar to the national outage on Tues...relates to uplinks.

 

[DBS Commando]

Strong storms in Arizona tonight....similar to the national outage on Tues...relates to uplinks.

Makes sense but I thought Arizona was a backup facility for Dish?

 

[CharlesO]

It is a back-up, but Cheyenne doesn't do everything. Arizona handles some of the load.

 

[rocatman]

This would not be a problem with the E-3 satellite if it is TP 24 since this TP is provided by the E-12 satellite.