Any Known Gateway Issues In ELP TX? Frequently Loosing Association

[cybo54]

Is there any known current issues with the El Paso TX gateway? We're on beam 49 gateway 11

Seems like this is our issue, we keep loosing association with the gateway.  This keeps happening numerous & repetitive times over the past two days, more often in frequency during the afternoon and evening.

I checked weather there today, today there was a tiny storm in the area but not exactly there, unsure about yesterday.

[cybo54]

---

@C0RR0SIVE wrote:

Heat can affect the transmitter, but it would have to be an incredibly hot day with no wind at all for the thing to overheat... They did design the out door equipment to work on a typical day in the harshest of environments, from Alaskan cold, to the deserts in the south-west.

---

Thanks for the info, I assumed they were probably designed to work in extreme heat and cold.  I think maybe if that was the sole issue it was just bad radio internals with the old feedhorn cover not helping things either.

Hopefully the radio was the only cause of the issue!

[cybo54]

OK, installer has come and gone Liz, thanks!

He only changed out the radio.  He said he could tell immediately when he got here uplink was bad, and when he looked at the radio he said it was old model and looked to be refurbished with dirty/old lens cover too so that could have been adding to whatever else was wrong with it internally.   I showed him your post about also replacing the modem, but he said they have to pay for that if the other isn't bad, so he didn't want to replace it even though I showed him that.  So if issues persist it could be that still, and it's on them haha!

He said no uplink issue once the brand new radio was installed, and it was a newer model and brand new unit.

Moving the car back into place 

Will update in day or two and hopefully let you know all is well!  Thanks again for your time to help get this resolved!

[Liz]

Hi cybo54,

Thanks for all your updates! I'm glad we at least switched out the radio for you and that you were having no issues even before the site visit. I hope to hear nothing but good news in your next update. 🙂

[cybo54 · Accepted solution]

Yes Liz, all weekend no problems (!?!), yet all week previously until you put in the fix schedule it was like clockwork and constant.
But he could still see major issues when he got here, and he was a new to Hughes installer (from DTV) having only been doing Hughes for 5 months or so he said.

We had power outages a few times early this morning and today, so I lost all the hourly history, but so far I think it's looking good!
I've seen a few (maybe 1-3) red X's in uplink hourly history though, but I assume a random one here or there is always going to be normal, but there hasn't been any issues or solid rows of X's like before.

Will give another update in few days, thanks again Liz!

[Liz]

Good, glad to hear it, cybo54! 😄

[cybo54]

Hi Liz,

I meant to come back sooner and give a final update, but forgot.  Anyway, here's a final update and we can close this thread now if you want, thanks! 🙂

Final update is - no problems, and everything has been working properly since the tech came out!  Thanks again for getting him out here quickly, this issue is solved!

[Liz]

Yay thanks, cybo54!