Outages in Stroms: Satellite TV vs. Radio?

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Chuck Hildebrandt wrote:
>
> I have DirecTV for satellite TV and Sirius for satellite radio. I get
> outages during heavy rain or storms on my satellite TV, but I experience
> none of those same outages during storms on my satellite radio? Why is
> this? Is there a difference in signal frequency or strength that makes
> satellite radio impervious to climatic conditions?

Pretty much, yes.
Try to think about the signal that carries just audio VS the
complexity of Audio AND Video at the same time, on different and
many birds.
And no, Serius is NOT "impervious" to outages, as any frequency can
have outages due to the severity of a particular storm.

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Chuck Hildebrandt wrote:
> I have DirecTV for satellite TV and Sirius for satellite radio. I get
> outages during heavy rain or storms on my satellite TV, but I
> experience none of those same outages during storms on my satellite
> radio? Why is this? Is there a difference in signal frequency or
> strength that makes satellite radio impervious to climatic conditions?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chuck

Yes, there is a difference in frequency. Strength, too, you'll need more
signal to carry video with the audio.

2320.0 - 2332.5 MHz Sirius Satellite Radio
2332.5 - 2345.0 MHz XM Satellite Radio

12200.0-12700.0 MHz Broadcasting Satellite Service
includes DirecTV and Dish Network

Raindrops scatter the higher frequencies better. A quarter wavelength at
12.2 GHz is about 6 millimeters, the size of a fat drop.

John C.

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bmg59 wrote:
> And not only that. In cities, Sat Radio actually has local
> transmitters or repeaters to help in the canyons.
>
> "Chuck Hildebrandt" <mcmlxi@enteract.com> wrote in message
> news:00j5d.479$Rf1.341@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com...
>> I have DirecTV for satellite TV and Sirius for satellite radio. I
>> get outages during heavy rain or storms on my satellite TV, but I
>> experience none of those same outages during storms on my satellite
>> radio? Why is this? Is there a difference in signal frequency or
>> strength that makes satellite radio impervious to climatic
>> conditions? Thanks.
>>
>> Chuck

The radio (I have XM) needs far less bandwidth since it only sends sound.