VOOM Not Working - No signal today!!

[Sean Mota]

No signal on VOOM today!!

I am getting no signal at all. The quality meter dropped about 13 but the strength has remained above 50. Anyone else?

 

[Lucky]

VOOM Not Working

My VOOM is not working today. I am getting no satellite channels. Is anyone else having a similar problem ?

 

[Sean Mota]

Yes, it's not working on mine either... Take a look at this thread. http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=5525

 

[Lucky]

Yeah, I just posted the same thing. I have no channels other than OTA at all.

 

[Sean Mota]

I just checked the signal on my E* (61.5) dish and it seems to be working fine. I'll take a look at the V* dish to see if snow or ice has accumulated.

 

[Sean Mota]

It looks like the VOOM dish has caught some ice. Not at the center but in the lower part of the Dish. I have to look at the E* dish again.

 

[Sean Mota]

Reporting from NYC...It looks like the E* dish has more snow/ice but still performing well while the V* dish has less and it's not performing.

 

[rudolpht]

Sean,

Your new avatar is... interesting.

Working here fine in colder & snowier New England.

Tim

 

[Sean Mota]

Anybody got it back? Mine is still down...

 

[rang1995]

FYI: just lost all (more or less) sat channels at 1 pm I am in
northern jersey,snow rain ice. i also have D*- still have it all but
a 65 signal where i usually have high 90's(will lose picture on that
when it hits 45 or so) so i have to deduce the signal of my VOOM is
just not as strong on best days i get a 43 qual strenth 58 where
when i had dish 61.5 i had 100 out of 125, i know they aren't equal
but i have a clear shot at the Bird--or the LNB style led to more
ice -snow formation then the one on D*..i still have OTA on voom

 

[rtt2]

It seems the lower FEC is casuing VOOM to perform worse in bad weather that E* & D*

Voom uses 5/6 FEC and E* & D* use 2/3 FEC. I have seen reports where weather will knock out Voom but not E* when they are on the same dish on AVS.

 

[Acerone]

Working fine here in California....

 

[Sean Mota]

Ok... I confirmed that I just got it back

 

[Sean Mota]

Sean,

Your new avatar is... interesting.
Tim

Getting ready for playboy/spice HD...

 

[Sean Mota]

Well, it is gone again...More snow has been falling. The E* dish still going strong; I have not seen a drop on E*. It is quite ridiculous that I heard some people say that you need to clean the V* dish. That to me is no good. Not in the middle of a storm I am going to climb two stories up and clean the V* dish. This to me indicates more problems with this V* dish.

 

[JaydeeD]

Had a major storm here in oregon a few weeks ago, 2 feet in a day and a half. Have never had any signal issues on the sat channels which leads me to believe its nor weather related

 

[Sean Mota]

Did you have only snow or ice as well? I think that problem here is that the dish has iced in the front plate besides the snow. It has come back for me again but it has been a rollercoaster today. I also had snow storms before and did not have problems but this one has brought the ice as well.