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It is that time again! Time to deal with the sun interfering with our TV. Sun outage, Sun transit, or Sun fade is an interruption in or distortion of satellite signals caused by interference (background noise) of the sun when it falls directly behind a satellite which a station is trying to receive data or transmit data to. It usually occurs briefly to such satellites twice per year and such stations install temporary or permanent guards to their receiving systems to prevent equipment damage.
Sun outages occur before the March Equinox (in February and March) and after the September Equinox (in September and October) for the Northern Hemisphere. At these times, the apparent path of the Sun across the sky takes it directly behind the line of sight between an station and a satellite. The Sun radiates strongly across the entire spectrum, including the microwave frequencies used to communicate with satellites (C band, Ku band, and Ka band), so the Sun swamps the signal from the satellite. The effects of a Sun outage range from partial degradation (increase in the error rate) to total destruction of the signal, affecting any specific location for less than 10 – 19 mins
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It is that time again! Time to deal with the sun interfering with our TV. Sun outage, Sun transit, or Sun fade is an interruption in or distortion of satellite signals caused by interference (background noise) of the sun when it falls directly behind a satellite which a station is trying to receive data or transmit data to. It usually occurs briefly to such satellites twice per year and such stations install temporary or permanent guards to their receiving systems.
Sun outages occur before the March Equinox (in February and March) and after the September Equinox (in September and October) for the Northern Hemisphere. At these times, the apparent path of the Sun across the sky takes it directly behind the line of sight between an station and a satellite. The Sun radiates strongly across the entire spectrum, including the microwave frequencies used to communicate with satellites (C band, Ku band, and Ka band), so the Sun swamps the signal from the satellite. The effects of a Sun outage range from partial degradation (increase in the error rate) to total destruction of the signal, affecting any specific location for less than 10 – 19 mins to prevent equipment damage.
We are aware of on going issues with the sports channels. We have been trouble shooting the problem and have ordered a replacement component to replace faltering one.
As of 9:33am
We are aware some/all Erie channels are off and on.
We are receiving spotty signal from them.
If you rescan now your TV will not get them when they DO come back on!
We have also done some “housekeeping” to our line-up for 2020. We have added 4 Channels, and adjusted line-up to correct issues we found over the last year.
New Channel Line-ups will be at office Monday and available on this site under Channels by end of next week for CLB and Standard.
You will need to RESCAN your TV!
AFTER Erie channels come back on.
COMING SOON, to Youngsville Television! We are happy to announce Crown Media has sent us new equipment that will enable us to add this channel. The new equipment will allow us to add this channel but it will be in MPEG4 only. We hope the change in equipment will resolve the issue a few TVs are having with the audio format the old digital signal was being sent to us in. We will be doing this update and addition between Christmas and the New Year so as NOT to effect your Christmas movie viewing.
Beginning Oct 22 2019, YTV will begin eliminating duplicate of digital channels. This will effect the following channels:
*A date (10/–/19) after channel indicates the day it stopped
These channels where duplicated for various reasons when we went full digital:
609 & 610 – audio format that a few TVs could not use, this means if you do not receive audio it is the TV’s tuner.
301, 514, 521, 520, 607– Are being transmitted to us in MPEG4 only.
502, 503, 504, 506, 806 -Where being “miss handled” by set top boxes. They will now be in MPEG4 only.
We can not continue to duel broadcast these channels. The decision to stop it was held off as long as possible but the tipping point was the Discovery channel provider purchasing 5 channels and is converting them to MPEG4. With more providers switching to transmitting MPEG4 only to their satellites, they are often willing to provide the equipment to us in the transmitted format. If your TV gets “audio only” on channels 134 & 135 then your TV can not process MPEG4. This is the format that our providers are going to. We down converted for more than a year to provide time for those that have TVs that can not process it to replace their TVs. Currently 134-RFDTV, 135-Cowboy Channel, and 701-706 Showtime are already in MPEG4 ONLY. We need to move forward with the technology. Back converting is not a responsible use of our recourses.
It is that time of the year again. Hard to believe when the sun can be elusive here this time of year, but it does interfere with the signals we receive form the satellites orbiting the earth. This fall the dates will be October 4 – October 14 and will last approximately 10-19 minutes.
From their web site:
“WQLN TV will experience an outage from Monday, September 30 through Tuesday, October 1, while we replace our antenna. After the installation is complete and if you watch WQLN using an antenna, you will need to rescan your TV to continue to receive our signal”
You do not need to rescan. We have to re program the head end equipment to the new frequency, the channel location on YTV will not change.