Bell Satellite Dish

For the third time in two weeks, our satellite TV lost its signal. When I called Bell the first time, they decided to send me a new Smart Card for the receiver. Really? After a day, the TV stations appeared again, but I didn’t make the connection between the effects of snow and the loss of signal.

The Smart Card was exchanged, and the switch was completed by Bell via telephone. The TV stations were still missing, so we went through the way to redirect the satellite dish. About an hour later, everything was back to normal. That is, until two nights ago, when the signal was lost again. The penny finally dropped: SNOW!

I cleaned the snow off the dish, and then I repeated what I’d been shown late last week. It worked.

We got our channels back just in time to watch the episode of “All in the Family” where “The Jeffersons” started its own nine season run as a spin-off. It was the episode where they were “moving’ on up” to the East Side (the show’s theme song). The year was 1975. Fifty years ago.

Timely, eh?