CA Traveler wrote:
Ed_Gee wrote:
Satellite tv providers have satellites for both the eastern U.S. And the western U.S. It sounds to me like you were leaving the primary footprint of the eastern satellite and failed to change your receiver over to the western longitude satellites,
True of Dish but DTV has 3 birds for all of the lower 48 and Alaska.
The Dish setup if why you read about some of the antennas that work on the eastern arc or western arc but not both.
The DTV 99 bird shows the highest signal for Florida but it's more than adequate throughout the 48, far west Canada and Alaska.
The original poster did not say what programming he was using ... According to what I find, DirecTV also makes good use of spot beams and the original poster could have easily been moving out of his Alabama spotbeam pattern.
DirecTV Satellite footprints and spot beamsThen again, even the CONUS footprint shows a deteriorating signal on the 101 satellite moving from Alabama to Texas.... as a previously poster said.
