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A Storm Disrupted My Signal

We have always been very frugal, and satellite tv was seen as a luxury. Finally, with a promotion for my husband, we took the leap and ordered satellite. My husband the engineer decided to save money and do the installation himself, with the help of Dad the engineer, too. Installing the dish and connections took only a few hours. Getting the dish positioned so that it got a good signal took the whole weekend. Most of that week was too busy to watch much TV. I did enjoy being able to set the toddlers down with a half hour of educational cable shows while I fixed dinner, instead of having that type of entertainment end about the time I needed it available. Along came that Friday night. I am a science fiction buff. Sci-fi channel’s Friday night line up was something I had friends recording for me and forwarding on the tapes. Saving on that hassle and compensation for others was one of our justifications for getting satellite in the first place. As dinner is closing down, a thunder storm breaks out. Who cares if it affects local TV channels? We have satellite now! Kids fed and bathed, both watching their Dora the Explorer video in the next room, all disasters resolved – it’s time to go. I turn on the satellite in time for the first show. Instead of the signal, I get the satellite provider’s logo bouncing around the screen. Thinking it was a setting problem, I check all the connections. After all, we have two little pairs of hands that could have done something wrong, like my toddler who put a stack of DVDs in the VCR not long prior in his effort to watch a cartoon. Alas, all the connections were all fine. I called in my husband. All the equipment was fine and working. It turned out that the satellite isn’t affected by weather, but the signal WAS affected by the storm. As the desired programming ended, so did the storm. The satellite started working again, but by then there wasn’t anything on worth watching.

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