Looks like no Voom for the next few days in NJ

[GadgetRick]

Well, looks like we're getting a tropical storm then a hurricane. Guess I should go stock up on DVDs since Voom will be useless with that kind of rain. Gee, sure wish I knew when I might be getting that larger dish...

Kind of annoying to know I won't be able to watch anything on Voom for the next few days...

The Rickster

 

[DRAKO]

I'm in VA, in Martinsville to be more precise, and we have severe thunderstorms combined with heavy rainfall (remnants of the previous hurricane) and voom is surprisingly not skipping a beat... in fact we had a tornado watch and now a flood watch and voom hasn’t lost signal, it did have some minor macro blocking for a few seconds a couple of times, but all in all its doing great, sat signal strength reads 95 oh and I have the standard 18" dish

 

[r.jones1116]

I'm in Charleston, SC and my sat signal is at 70 and still watching the game on espnHD

 

[vurbano]

I'm in VA, in Martinsville to be more precise, and we have severe thunderstorms combined with heavy rainfall (remnants of the previous hurricane) and voom is surprisingly not skipping a beat... in fact we had a tornado watch and now a flood watch and voom hasn’t lost signal, it did have some minor macro blocking for a few seconds a couple of times, but all in all its doing great, sat signal strength reads 95 oh and I have the standard 18" dish

Me too. Im on the coast of Virginia in Newport News near VA beach, Norfolk Etc, with standard 18" dish and no drop outs!! I expected it to be out until Monday at least. LMAO

 

[GadgetRick]

Well...

Let's hope the same happens here. Maybe it's because the storm isn't as far out in the Atlantic where the satellites are? Anyway, I hope I don't lose it for the weekend...

The Rickster

 

[jimmykce1]

No drop outs here in Va and we are having rain from Bonnie now.

 

[gunn55]

Well, looks like we're getting a tropical storm then a hurricane. Guess I should go stock up on DVDs since Voom will be useless with that kind of rain. Gee, sure wish I knew when I might be getting that larger dish...
The Rickster

Is V* giving you a hard time getting you a dish?
I called V* on last Friday telling them I had bad rain fade and without asking for it they said they would Install a 24" dish. I could have set up an install for that Wed. But I chose to have it Installed on Sat. 8/7/04.
I had some pretty hard rain since and it has been fine. I used to get fade on just light rain.
BTW I'm also in N.J. North/East
Good luck And keep me/us posted.

 

[FunkyBoss]

Let's hope the same happens here. Maybe it's because the storm isn't as far out in the Atlantic where the satellites are? Anyway, I hope I don't lose it for the weekend...

The Rickster

So is it out, or are you still Vooming? How is the storm?

 

[vurbano]

Bonnie is gone, waiting for hurricane charley rains tonight. Still no drop outs.

 

[vurbano]

Bonnie is gone, waiting for hurricane charley rains tonight. Still no drop outs..

 

[GadgetRick]

No rain...yet...

No rain here yet. We'll see what happens. I'm actually headed into the City for dinner this evening so I'll be out in it.

I've not tried asking Voom for a bigger dish yet. I've been hoping/waiting for them to give me the 35" dish so I didn't have to bug them. I guess I'll have to give them a call next week on this...

The Rickster

 

[DarrellP]

It's not how much it is raining, it is where the thickest clouds are. I had a downpour coming overhead one day and my signal barely budged, but an hour later, it was clear overhead and thick black clouds in line of sight to the sat and I lost the signal with the sun shining!

 

[johnfaas]

Good here

No prob. here on the Jersey shore !!!!!!

 

[vurbano]

I agree with Darrell but during heavy rains I always experience clouds. Its raining here Saturday and still not a hint of Fade. Im thinking voom has changed their error correction. It seems very unusual to be this stable.