Cold weather signal loss

Remember Charlie's announcement of merger with Sky? After he was visited at home by Rupert Murdoch, who would later comment "I like Cholly".
 
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When I joined SatGuys in 2006 there was some postings about a possible dish mesh reflector. I remember in the pic it looked like grating material. Does anyone remember that?
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those things
 
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Just no benefit in it. The hole size would need to be quite small not to leak at DBS frequencies and there would be very little wind-force reduction. The whole point of DBS was to be able to use a dish so small that wind wouldn't grab it in any kind of manner as with C-band size dishes. And also so small that its obtrusiveness is a couple orders of magnitude less than the C-band sizes where making them semi-transparent (through perforation or mesh) was deemed an aesthetics benefit as well as wind-load reducer.
 
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Dumping local channels (preferable)