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Yeah I would think in less extreme temps even below zero, heat tape would be adequate. You should see how standard greases and oils behaves at really low temps.

My C band dish is out of service but still up in the air. When I was using it (12') it would move even in interior Alaska cold at 40 below or colder. Disassemble everything, remove the automotive grease and re-lube with arctic grade synthetic grease, and it's off to te races. I have an 18"...

Dish Size rv1pop, something does not sound right with those dish sizes. I assume you are talking about Barrow, Alaska. The dish sizes needed for various services is not much different than interior Alaska in most cases but larger than the lower 48. I use Ku dishes up to 6 feet, 12 feet for C...

Bulldogs Hey Ice, saw your sig about the Bulldogs. Maybe one day, after pigs fly our UAF Nanooks will win a National title too! We have the next best thing, our NAHL Fairbanks Ice Dogs are defending National champs in Juniors.

I am curious too what town he is in.... The canadian north is the only place than can compete with Alaska for cold. BTW, Fairbanks set a new record low for yesterday of -35F. It was colder last night but no record about -37.

Canadian Cold Steve, Thanks for the offer, first I have to find out if my 18" actuator will even work. It could be seized up good. I found an 18" on a Paraclipse type antenna will provide ample travel from the eastern horizon to just past due south, the farthest satellite available. When I...

Album Hi Karl- You should be able to click on my user name arcticracer on one of the posts, and go to my profile where the album is located. Don't blame you to prefer being in Denver, after all these years the winters are getting old for me. When I retire in a few years I will definately be...

Good Reading Thanks brex2001, a little bit of nostalgia there. My dish is actually a Paraclipse copy, made by a company from Michigan that was called UP Superior (as in Upper Peninsula). It's a good dish, my family had a Satellite TV business and this was the last brand we used before getting...

St. Paul I am not on this job, I work out of Fairbanks and the Anchorage crew has this area. I can see the reflector got tweeked, it will not be reusable. I have heard stories of a dish that was installed at one of the radar sites that was ripped off the mount during a big blow and was never...

Do you think the DMX-741S is as good (or close) as a dual feed with 2 LNB's?

The storm is now being called the worst on record. St. Paul service is not restored yet, if it were somewhere else that did not have the wind associated with Saint Paul we would use a portable dish, not sure if that would stand up at St. Paul. When things happen, we don't have the luxury of...

Hey guys, thinking about getting an FTA receiver and refurbishing my old 12' Paraclipse copy dish. It's the "Bud From Hell" that I have posted photos of here in the past. The one on a 20 something foot pole with a combination service platform/Moose stand. My last use of C band was with my old...

All of the dishes in the network are aimed at AMC-8. This one is aimed at China now :)

We have been busy repairing damage in Western Alaska from the huge superstorm that passed through the area last week. I just returned from Point Hope where 80 MPH winds ripped the waveguide off the antenna. Here are some photos of the dish on St. Paul Island, off the SW Alaska coast where the...

The smaller of the LNA's was only 4 years old, the high winds and salt seem to get to things no matter what you try to keep it out. It's the one that died from the solar outage. The other one had the N connector break, probably from the wind beating on the heliax feedline.

Ours are pressurized with .5 PSI air run through a dehydrator, it doesn't protect the outisde unfortunately.

Kaktovik, Alaska on Barter Island in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR), yes the place with all the off limits oil has a little problem with Polar Bears. Seems they learned when Whaling season occurs, and come into town in August to wait for their free buffet once the locals land a few...

We battle constantly to win the war with corrosion in coastal areas of Alaska, especially in the Arctic. Here are a few pics of LNA's that have failed, one got wiped out during the recent solar outage period. The site went down during the outage and never came back, turned out the gain of the...

Adding panels I did this exact thing to an 8' spun aluminum dish in 80's, just as the smallest antennas on the market had changed from 12', to 10', finally even 8'. Think I was using a Drake receiver and 120 LNA. It did improve the performance somewhat. A couple earlier posts nailed it, I'm...

They were ahead of their time, performed really well, and were solid.

It's not rocket science, mix it a bag at a time, add water until you get a nice liquidy but firm mix. Overkill on the number of bags there but too much won't hurt anything. When I dug holes I made them round, only about a foot or so wide at the top and maybe 18" at the bottom and about 2 feet...

Do it right.... If you are going to play with larger dishes don't cheap out on the mount. 3" schedule 40 is what you want. Conduit, no.

Adjusting Dish We maintain many 4.5 meter dishes mostly Andrew, they are the standard system in small Alaskan villages. They are much easier to adjust than what you have here, we have a single adjustment for AZ and another for EL. Loosen a few locknuts, and rotate the struts with a big...

Concrete Age, nice tip on the muffler clamps. On the concrete, if your ground is solid a couple bags is more than enough I am with T4Runner. 3 bags will hold a 12 footer with solid earth, if your winds are not extreme. No need for a pad above ground level.

You're looking at a commercial grade item, which do not come cheap. We are using Satellite modems that cost over $20,000.00 each, also EFData. A home system wouldn't have any need for this LNA though, a cheaper unit would do fine.