DirecTV Outage???

[debor]

Is anyone else experiencing an outage? It was from about 6:30PM EST...I have nothing on either of my two receivers. Two friends also lost and have had no picture since then...sat signal is measuring from 50-75 percent, down from high 90's. I am in the Pittsburgh area as an FYI

[ttodd1]

Fine here. All channels or just certain ones?

[JACKIEGAGA]

Is anyone else experiencing an outage? It was from about 6:30PM EST...I have nothing on either of my two receivers. Two friends also lost and have had no picture since then...sat signal is measuring from 50-75 percent, down from high 90's. I am in the Pittsburgh area as an FYI

NYC is up and running

[DCSholtis]

Cleveland checking in.....

[StlChief]

All is well in St. Louis.

[hengnv]

No problems in northern Nevada

[mhayes70]

All is well in Southern Illinois

[ColonelJulius]

Chicago is fine.

[Supervolcano]

Is anyone else experiencing an outage? It was from about 6:30PM EST...I have nothing on either of my two receivers. Two friends also lost and have had no picture since then...sat signal is measuring from 50-75 percent, down from high 90's. I am in the Pittsburgh area as an FYI
Ummm, I'm in Chicago, and fine.

But taking a look at the Pittsburgh doppler radar it appears like your getting a slush storm?

Thick wet snow and satellites don't mix.
Go brush off your dish.
If there's zero accumulation on it, then it must be the moisture in your clouds.

[JACKIEGAGA]

Is anyone else experiencing an outage? It was from about 6:30PM EST...I have nothing on either of my two receivers. Two friends also lost and have had no picture since then...sat signal is measuring from 50-75 percent, down from high 90's. I am in the Pittsburgh area as an FYI

Aren't you getting snow ?

[debor]

Thanks for the updates...yes, it is snowing, but it never was much of an issue in the past, even with snow on the dish...the slush snow idea above makes sense...it was the fact that three of us were having it made me wonder...thanks.

[JACKIEGAGA]

Thanks for the updates...yes, it is snowing, but it never was much of an issue in the past, even with snow on the dish...the slush snow idea above makes sense...it was the fact that three of us were having it made me wonder...thanks.

I would most likely say it is due to the weather

[bcherry]

Is anyone else experiencing an outage? It was from about 6:30PM EST...I have nothing on either of my two receivers. Two friends also lost and have had no picture since then...sat signal is measuring from 50-75 percent, down from high 90's. I am in the Pittsburgh area as an FYI
I live in Beaver Falls and lost my satellite signals around 5:00 PM. I suspect it is a result of the wet snow we are experiencing. This is the first time this has happened to me since I got the new 5 LNB dish back in October 2006. If you can go outside and clean off the dish and LNBs or wait for the weather to improve over the weekend.

[debor]

Again, thanks everyone...it was the snow...I am usually not one to jump the gun suggesting an outage, but with what ended up being 3 other people calling me that were experiencing it, I was concerned. Now that the snow had turned to rain, the signal is back and good to go after a reboot.

[CJTE]

What kind of an outage!?!
Its not like one of the satellites went out of orbit or something... :P

[Billzebub]

Thanks for the updates...yes, it is snowing, but it never was much of an issue in the past, even with snow on the dish...the slush snow idea above makes sense...it was the fact that three of us were having it made me wonder...thanks.

I live in the south hills of Pittsburgh. Went out on the porch roof and cleaned the dish about 6:00 PM. No problem since then. The snow is really wet and slushy.

[lwilli201]

I have had 2 inches of snow on the dish, have had it covered with ice, and it still works. Just a little slush and it dies. Slush is easy to clean off. :)

[cforrest]

Everyone in the NE has to keep an eye out for snow on the dish with this system. I had to go on the roof of my condo building and hit the dish with some nice hot water, had almost 1" of wet snow on it. We are having S winds and snow, which is rare around here. Usually a NW or NE wind with snow, so the dish is getting blasted with the wet snow.

[jamieh1]

Here in the Greenville NC market my locals on the 72.5 sat have be flickering Friday afternoon, no issues off 99,101,103,110,119.