This thread is designed to track outages at the BTV uplink in Toronto which affect the entire country
Since there was only one confirmed outage in 2013 and two in 2014, we'll continue this thread into 2015.
Here are similar threads from previous years:
BTV 2012 Outages Thread - Please Read Post 1 Before Posting - Canadian TV, Computing and Home Theatre Forums 2012
BTV 2011 Outages Thread - Please read post 1. - Canadian TV, Computing and Home Theatre Forums 2011
BTV 2010 Outages Thread (There goes the 99.99% availability) See Post 1. - Canadian TV, Computing and Home Theatre Forums 2010
Weather outages can be caused by poor weather over your area, or poor weather over the BTV Uplink facility, located in Toronto. This thread is to track outages that affect the entire country due to weather or other problems at the uplink.
Please see and use the links below for Toronto radar if you have an outage. Please also report the amount of time that your location was "down".
Weather Radar - King City, ON - Environment Canada
Intellicast - Current Radar in Cadillac, Michigan
Uplink Outage Dates & Times:
To be completed as outages occur. Times listed are Toronto times.
2013.07.08, 5:00 PM, ~½ hour, Record rain & thunderstorms in Toronto,
2014.06.17, 6:30PM, ~½ hour, Heavy rain and thunderstorms in Toronto
2014.08.04, 3:30PM, ~½ hour, Heavy rain and thunderstorms in Toronto
2015.06.23, Around Midnight. Heavy rain and thunderstorms in Toronto.
If you wish to find other previous similar threads, do a search for "rain snow fade". If your location was down for significantly longer than other people indicate in this thread, then you should consider re-aiming your dish and/or getting a larger dish.
Since there was only one confirmed outage in 2013 and two in 2014, we'll continue this thread into 2015.
Here are similar threads from previous years:
BTV 2012 Outages Thread - Please Read Post 1 Before Posting - Canadian TV, Computing and Home Theatre Forums 2012
BTV 2011 Outages Thread - Please read post 1. - Canadian TV, Computing and Home Theatre Forums 2011
BTV 2010 Outages Thread (There goes the 99.99% availability) See Post 1. - Canadian TV, Computing and Home Theatre Forums 2010
Weather outages can be caused by poor weather over your area, or poor weather over the BTV Uplink facility, located in Toronto. This thread is to track outages that affect the entire country due to weather or other problems at the uplink.
Please see and use the links below for Toronto radar if you have an outage. Please also report the amount of time that your location was "down".
Weather Radar - King City, ON - Environment Canada
Intellicast - Current Radar in Cadillac, Michigan
Uplink Outage Dates & Times:
To be completed as outages occur. Times listed are Toronto times.
2013.07.08, 5:00 PM, ~½ hour, Record rain & thunderstorms in Toronto,
2014.06.17, 6:30PM, ~½ hour, Heavy rain and thunderstorms in Toronto
2014.08.04, 3:30PM, ~½ hour, Heavy rain and thunderstorms in Toronto
2015.06.23, Around Midnight. Heavy rain and thunderstorms in Toronto.
If you wish to find other previous similar threads, do a search for "rain snow fade". If your location was down for significantly longer than other people indicate in this thread, then you should consider re-aiming your dish and/or getting a larger dish.