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Originally Posted by Prairie Bettor
I'm at Prairie Meadows and the RTN signal is down.
The dish network "complete signal loss" screen is on the monitors.
The workers are saying it's not a local problem, that the entire network is down at every track in the US.
I say it's a local dish alignment problem.
Anyone able to confirm that dish network RTN is working?
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This happened on Fri 8/2..I was in NY on vacation. The OTB cable channel which picks up the Roberts feed, lost the feed just before the 8th or 9th race.
Same message.."complete signal loss"...
The problem is most likely at the Roberts Uplink facility. All signals are sent there either via satellite link from the track or via fiber network.
To make this a bit easier to understand, I will offer an example.
For most local network stations on the East Coast, Dish subscribers receive their local channels via a Dish uplink center in Mt Jackson, VA. Each station's signal is received via over the air antennas mounted at a telephone company "point of presence" (POP) in the city from which the station broadcasts...Inside the building the signals are routed through a switch which then sends the signals via fiber optic cables up to Mount Jackson. That facility then bounces the signals off Dish's satellites back to their customers. If there are heavy thunderstorms in the area of MT Jackson, all signals of those local channels can be 'lost' due to interference.
I am going to take a flyer and make a case for the same at Roberts Comm uplink. Heavy weather.