Poor satellite dish

[Mr Tony]

Tuesday night, we had one heckuva storm in MN

-hail for about 1/2 hour
-torrential rains
-65+ mph winds for 1/2 hour

Happened to find this picture of a trasmitter dish from a radio station that basically got totalled

see all their pictures here

 

[CharredPC]

That's just WRONG!!!

... think they'll let you pul the lnb's and cable as scrap?

 

[Mr Tony]

... think they'll let you pul the lnb's and cable as scrap?

its 200 miles away...I think I'll pass

 

[Shawn95GT]

I guess my contacts in Minneapolis weren't kidding about the storm the other night!

I'm glad it wasnt' one of your new 90cm dishes .

 

[Mr Tony]

I guess my contacts in Minneapolis weren't kidding about the storm the other night!

I'm glad it wasnt' one of your new 90cm dishes .

Yeah exactly

I got woken up at 12:35 with hail hitting the window…I looked out and couldn’t see anything. I went to the living room and looked out the deck and couldn’t see the edge of it (where the DirecPC and the 36” is). I thought they were all goners : (

Stopped hailing and the wind died down about 1:15 and I went outside to see if they were still there….they were

 

[Todd Wiedemann]

The question is:

What were your signal levels ?? I'm sure you checked.

 

[Mr Tony]

The question is:

What were your signal levels ?? I'm sure you checked.

I was too tired to check

I went up in the bedroom and turned on the second PBS station, which has radar weather from midnight-5PM and all day weekends and saw a blob going over my county…I waited it out.

The way it was pouring, I have a feeling ALL signals were NADA

 

[PopcornNMore]

This hurricane season, I will be bringing in all my dishes whenever there is a hurricane warning. I hate hurricane season here in Florida.

 

[Cascade]

PnM, good point.
More members are buying larger dishes now and it'd be prudent to take them down, especially those on the East coast.
The Winegard is an easy 4 bolt job, I lost count of how many times I took it down over the last year or so in anticipation of a storm.
Some of these bigger dishes aren't so easy.

 

[Tron]

This hurricane season, I will be bringing in all my dishes whenever there is a hurricane warning. I hate hurricane season here in Florida.

Yep, as Arlene just proved, the summer months are like playing Russian Roulette for those of us who live near the Gulf of Mexico

I was afraid I'd have to pull down my dishes and NPRM's from the shed if it had gone this way, but it was only a Category 1, I'd probably have left everything up there.

Tron