or if you have directv or dish you an check the satellite settings with a morse code or buzzing sound or long tone to tell how good the siginal is. its found on most converter boxes as well. or these things.nwgatwcfan wrote:Here is the best way to tell if it is sunspots on satellite. Keep track of the times and the channels that go out at the same time. Usually only one satellite will go out at any one given period, (since each satellite has quite a bit of distance between them - there will be a delay of about 10 minutes until the next satellite is reached by the sun's energy). Then go to lyngsat.com and compare which satellite each channel corresponds to. You will find that the channels that go out at the same time will be on the same satellite. Other channels will go out at different times throughout the day (pending on how far west the satellite is in the sky), but the common thread will be that the channels on the same satellite will go out at the same time.
Steven
http://youtu.be/CpcP9aUXP8s?t=6m25s
