Reduced reception this morning

[west-pac]

I've noticed reduced reception this morning on more than one receiver using indoor and outdoor antennas. I've swapped multicoupler without a change. My closest SAFE-T site (1.53) , 7 miles away, normally full scale on an indoor antenna isn't even full scale on either of 2 outdoor antennas, nor a different scanner with an indoor antenna. I have 3 SAFE-T sites (1.22, 1.50, 1.54) in neighboring counties that are normally full-scale on either outdoor antenna, 2 out of the 3 (1.50 and 1.54) are not full-scale. One of those sites (1.50) even completely drops out with my 800Mhz beam pointed at it; that's the furthest away of the 3, and I normally receive 1.50 better than 1.54. Currently 1.54 is twice the signal strength than 1.50. I have had no DX this morning anyway across the spectrum, yet I can normally, and still currently, receive site 1.9, 85 miles away. I don't have any TV enhancements either, yet still receive my normal Indy and Fort Wayne TV channels. Unrelated, I also noticed 1.53, and 1.54 were in site trunking this morning.

Anyone else noticing reduced reception this morning, with indoor and outdoor antennas on local sites? I'm perplexed.

 

[IndyScan]

Although not specific to this morning, the Indianapolis ISP Post (Site 37) dropped for me several months ago. I was picking them up at 60db in Fishers for a year, and one day it dropped to 85-90db & has been that way ever since. In addition, I noticed a reception decline on 3 separate radios (SDS200, SDS100, and Unitrunker SRD setup).

Total speculation but is it possible they reduced power at the transmitter site?

 

[west-pac]

My issue was yesterday (Sunday) morning. Local signal strengths and DX were all back this morning (Monday), on both indoor and outdoor antennas and receivers. That was weird yesterday morning. Until I realized the indoor-antenna scanners had reduced signals I thought I had a problem with my outdoor antenna system. I already had one Stridsburg multicoupler fail once, I thought it did it again until I hooked up another with the same results. Saturday evening a LEO on site 1.50 asked another LEO if he had been having radio issues all day, to which the reply was "no"; then the RF black-hole opened for me Sunday morning.

It rained for a few hours Saturday afternoon/evening so I thought maybe I got some water in the outdoor coax, but that wouldn't affect the indoor-antenna scanner. Rain/water normally affects site 1.54 (known long-term problem), but 1.50 was the site that went from normally full-scale to completely dropping off SDR#. Also Sunday morning both, 1.54 and 1.53, were in site trunking... so I guess water could've affected all 3 sites (made them fold-back the output power) and MY outdoor antennas, then taken a day to dry out. 🤷‍♂️

I didn't check any space weather, or DX reporting sites, to see if anything happened/occured globally.