Contour box not working because of the sun?

Hi Misscsr,

Sun outages most often occur during the early spring and fall months. When the sun aligns directly above a satellite and its ground-based antenna, the sun's energy can overpower the satellite signals, resulting in sun outages. Outages can last from five to fifteen minutes each day.

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Maria, 

The Contour cable had been out for four full days, not just 5-15 minutes each day.  They were able to talk to a technician today and reset the Contour box and everything is working again, very thankful for that.  I guess I don’t understand why this wasnt done this past Sunday when they initially called but, again, am very thankful that it is working again.  

Hello Misscsr,

I truly apologize for the delay in restoring your services. We can provide feedback to the reps leader. Please send an email to cox.help@cox.com include your full name, address, and a link to this forum post. Thanks

I was told the same thing last night when every channel reported “Unauthorized (V58)”. I chatted with Customer Support and they sent a reset signal to my cable cards (no Contour, I use a TiVo). That fixed the issue - for about 5 hours. The first instance occurred at about 6:30PM, the second around 11:30PM. Chatted again with customer support who told me it was due to a “sun outage” - at night??? I asked the support person how a sun outage can occur at night who “explained” to me that just because it’s nighttime where I’m at, the sun can still affect satellites. However, *everything* I have read about sun outages claim this is NOT TRUE - that sun outages only occur between approx. 10AM - 5PM. Everything appears to be working right now, but this just seemed to be a poor excuse for the problem. We’ll see if it fails again tonight.

Hello,

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