Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:20:10 -0400, HK wrote:

How frequent are the outages when land-based? And what sorts of weather
seems do do it?

At home heavy thunderstorms are the primary culprit. That's an issue
in South Florida of course but mostly during the summer months, and
mostly in the afternoon.

I'm sitting on the boat at the moment, moored and swinging at Block
Island in sporadically heavy rain. Reception is mostly solid but it
takes a five to ten second hit every 15 minutes or so.


The hit is because of the rain, the swinging, or both?

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:52:11 -0400, HK wrote:

I'm sitting on the boat at the moment, moored and swinging at Block
Island in sporadically heavy rain. Reception is mostly solid but it
takes a five to ten second hit every 15 minutes or so.


The hit is because of the rain, the swinging, or both?

Mostly the rain but sometimes from boat motion. In theory the antenna
is supposed to track the satellite as the boat moves but it sometimes
falls out of sync and has to reacquire the signal. At home the only
thing that disrupts reception is a heavy rainstorm.