Southern Minnesota signal loss? Tuesday & Wednesday nights

[snissen]

Between 9:00 and 9:30 pm CST Tuesday night, during the President's unending speech, I lost all my local Twin Cities channels suddenly. On the guide, it looks like I lost all satellite-provided channels. Since my Hopper 3 is connected to my Internet service, I still have all the streaming channels, though I had to invoke the "automatic backup" feature manually.

I assume this is a weather-related event, because that's about the time when today's rain changed over to snow. But I've seen very, very few snow outages in my many years with DISH. Is anyone else in southern Minnesota experiencing this outage?

Now, about 4 hours later, the satellite channels are still out. If the snow stops by noon Wednesday as predicted, I hope these channels will return to normal. Until then, my timers are recording a whole lotta nuthin'.

 

[snissen]

Everything is back to normal now. And my driveway was just dug out. Happy March!

 

[snissen]

Now, Wednesday night, the guide is wonky again. The guide shows all satellite-based channels as "No signal", but my recordings of the local NBC channel seem to have worked.

Right now, when I choose a channel with streaming automatic backup, I get the network stream rather than the satellite feed. (Which apparently doesn't support Picture-In-Picture like the sat feeds do.)

At 10pm CST, I can view any of the local news broadcasts, despite the guide showing them all unavailable.,

So now I _know_ I can't trust what the guide shows me, or use it to change channels. Am I alone in this mess?

 

[tanman]

Not at all the same but I had nothing but a black screen around 5pm yesterday.Not even "you have lost signal". It was a local channel and it was wet out so I went to ESPN because it's a different satellite and has internet switchover.Still black.I was going to check out the satellite signal etc when it all came back.No reboot or anything.

 

[mikekohl]

Not at all the same but I had nothing but a black screen around 5pm yesterday.Not even "you have lost signal". It was a local channel and it was wet out so I went to ESPN because it's a different satellite and has internet switchover.Still black.I was going to check out the satellite signal etc when it all came back.No reboot or anything.

If your Satellite antenna is easily accessible, take a snowbrush out to it and gently remove the snow from the reflector. Wet snow or ice that forms after changing from freezing rain is probably the worst case reception situation (other than thunderstorms), and if your backup plans are not working or cannot be trusted, a few seconds removing snow should get most of all of your reception restored.