‘It’s all down to the weakening of the satellite signal,
Avanti say “as it passes through raindrops, fog, heavy cloud cover or high
winds”. Avanti, a provider of satellite broadband packages, would tell you if
asked. There is Satellite up in the Sky, which receives transmissions from An
Earth Station Up Link which then converts it and resends it to an Earth Station
Downlink which then distributes to our digital receivers finally. Note that,
when there is an interruption, it would probably affect the quality of channels
you watch.
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. Multi tv channels in particularly have been hurt
so much on these phenomenon. For the past 4 weeks ago, it has been showing ‘Service
Unavailable’ on most channels. This became very intense on the night Juventus
was playing against Barcelona in EUFA Champions League final on Tv3. As at that
time, it was only 4 Kids, and Joy News that was working. Most customers who put
their minds on Tv3 were disappointed with their digibox. Even now, some
channels do behave so. Fortunately, it does come back. However, when it does
happen when you so much need one programme to watch, you can imagine how
frustrated you can be. Hopefully, it is not a fault of your own which needs an
Installer. It is the insurgency of the rain and wind. When it rains, it makes
it difficult for the Satellite in the sky to resend transmissions to the Earth
Station downlink, talk less of your receiver catching it. It is experienced not
only in Ghana or Africa but Europe too. It is the main reason why Sky Tv and
its network use C-band. Though it does affect it also, it may minimise. Mind
you, it is not only Service Unavailable.
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. Moreover, you can also face the issue of Bad
Signal. This does begins when it looks like there is a scratch in the programme
you are watching. For those having good signal qualities, it would have to rain
heavy before you can expect anything of that sort. In any case, after the
weather is clear, it is supposed to resume. Nonetheless, when it does not, you
may have to call your installer to check it for you. It is all due to the
transmission of signal through the atmosphere. The worst that can happen is for
the dish to be faced with trees or be removed entirely because of the heavy
down pour. I will advise installers to be careful when installing dish at
places where there are trees. Both users of Qsat, Multitv, Strong among others
would face these problems. Though it is less when using a C-band. On the other
hand, it does not help people with Ka band since their dishes are very small.
3.
Finally, users of Qsat may have double of these.
You would agree with me that Q-sat uses a sim card in operation. Since the sim card
is network based, the same instance does happen to networks too. Give it a try.
Tyr surfing the web whiles it is raining. Whiles Q-sat users may be having bad
signal, they would have to wait or contend with ‘Network Connection Success’
which does appears before ‘Welcome to server...’ With those with Wi-Fi, you may
experience some difficulties too but not as those with the sim card.
Peradventure bundling the data may be worse. Hopefully, this does happens to
people using Sim card based receivers to watch Dstv or Canal Sat only. You
cannot control this though; you could hopefully wait for the rain to subside in
order to continue watching.
In a nutshell, they are the basic problems
that you can face during the raining season.
Have you any other possible hitches you
think I have left behind; want to ask any question, you can hopefully comment
below.
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