I received a call back from SiriusXM Investor Relations and got a reasonable explanation of what happened. In January SiriusXM transitioned all service from the 115W orbital slot to XM5. XM5's footprint does not offer much if any service in Alaska so Alaska is getting service from only 85W. This results in service will be lost where it previously was available due to trees and terrain. In addition as you go west and north elevation drops as well as signal level from the satellite getting out of the performance envelope of most antennas. So north and west of Kake watch for intermittent service highly dependent on the orientation of the antenna. For example coming across Icy St we had intermittent service but once we entered Frederick Sound and stopped rolling service became more consistent.
So it is what it is. For weather data, things should be ok but for entertainment its not as good as it was.
Tom
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