Watching the final of CSI tonight (first episode) torrential rain and high winds began in the last 5 minutes of the show.
I started to see pixels and and cutouts as I heard the wind and rain pick up in intensity.
As a quick backround I am 13 miles from transmitter with a Wingard UHF OTA antenna. Normally all D channels are at 100%
I was pissed! as it was the last 5 mins of the program.. Thinking it was the weather I shrugged (cringed) and continued watching. The problems continued.
So the show ended and the wife wanted to watch ER (alternate channel) and I saw pixels on this station as well. She moved to a more stable tv... (the ultimate let down.. but she wanted to view the show without issue. Totally understandable.)
I then checked the signal by traversing to the signal strength page in the setup menu.
The Hughes continues the video signal as an underlay until you get deeper into the system and select the system setup button. (Not sure on different make boxes)
Once I selected this the signal it was at 100% (no underlay picture now)
I quickly returned to video and have now experienced no dropouts on either channels for the last hour.
I hear the wind howling and the rain coming down in different intensities just as when the problem started. Still all ok
The box seemed to correct itself AFTER accessing the strength indicator page.
This could all be coincidental but I wanted to share this with other hughes e86 users experiencing this problem.
It may not be heat related or a combination of heat and a bad signal bouncing around until an out is provided
rbaldwin
I started to see pixels and and cutouts as I heard the wind and rain pick up in intensity.
As a quick backround I am 13 miles from transmitter with a Wingard UHF OTA antenna. Normally all D channels are at 100%
I was pissed! as it was the last 5 mins of the program.. Thinking it was the weather I shrugged (cringed) and continued watching. The problems continued.
So the show ended and the wife wanted to watch ER (alternate channel) and I saw pixels on this station as well. She moved to a more stable tv... (the ultimate let down.. but she wanted to view the show without issue. Totally understandable.)
I then checked the signal by traversing to the signal strength page in the setup menu.
The Hughes continues the video signal as an underlay until you get deeper into the system and select the system setup button. (Not sure on different make boxes)
Once I selected this the signal it was at 100% (no underlay picture now)
I quickly returned to video and have now experienced no dropouts on either channels for the last hour.
I hear the wind howling and the rain coming down in different intensities just as when the problem started. Still all ok
The box seemed to correct itself AFTER accessing the strength indicator page.
This could all be coincidental but I wanted to share this with other hughes e86 users experiencing this problem.
It may not be heat related or a combination of heat and a bad signal bouncing around until an out is provided
rbaldwin