Western fire smoke - poor tv signals?
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Topic: Western fire smoke - poor tv signals?
Posted By: AC7060IL
Subject: Western fire smoke - poor tv signals?
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2021 at 8:20pm
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Is there any correlation to our tv signal being poor because of our air being smoke filled from the western wildfires? Olympic channel comes & goes. Seems worse at around 3pm & later after 8pm. |
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2021 at 8:43pm
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Im on DISH... No problems noted unless there is a heavy rain storm SWest of us.... Satellite is basically over Texas. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2021 at 8:48pm
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Smoke/haze can affect satellite tv signal somewhat. A hard rainstorm will knock ours out completely. But I am not sure about at antenna (over the air) signal. I have the antenna set up at the farm and it goes out for no apparent reason but affects mostly the higher frequency channels. I suspect it may be interference from some other source. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2021 at 9:31pm
| i think it has affected ours |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2021 at 10:41am
 More likely danger rays put off by that Toy of Yours. We did not have trouble last year cover by smoke for 3 weeks. Had grandkids for most of a week in there, TV worked or they and grandma would of all been screaming.
Computer is satellite feed here and it was a bit slow but did work. Glad to be able the share the Fruits of having Fruits and Nuts running the west today. The biggest fire in Calyforny was started by lighting on July 4. Burned for 10 days and was less than a 100 acres. Part of the new let "Nature Do its Thing", school of management. But then it got to the has not burned in a 100 years area stuff, and off to the races. All the fire fighting agency's put out every spark for close to a 100 years in the forests of the west. Finally decided better to burn it on there time than as wildfires. Now the Nature Knows Best groups got together with the save the World from Mankind idots still cannot do semi controlled burns in wetter times of the year. No end to the mistakes of the past in sight yet. |
shameless dude wrote:Posted By: Tad Wicks
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2021 at 1:29pm
Shameless, mine too, I just blamed it on old age and I am not talk'n about the TV set
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Posted By: GSTROM99
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2021 at 8:51am
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Weather forecast included "smoke" and I was wondering where it's from. Pretty hazy here. It hasn't affected my fiber optic signal  . |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2021 at 4:05pm
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Smoke in the atmosphere WILL affect VHF and UHF (over-the-air TV, amongst many other things), and it IS affecting it. It can both suppress, as well as enhance propogation. With today's 'digital', either enhancement or suppression (which CAN be BOTH) can result in poor reception simply because some OTHER signal is being transmitted in same frequency. Smoke can also accumulate on your antenna's elements and feedpoint connections, causing it t develop shorts, or additional capaciity, hence, serious losses in performance. ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Posted By: GSTROM99
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2021 at 4:49pm
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We're finally getting some much needed rain here today, which should help clear some of this off. |