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.