Has anyone ever super powered their dish is it even possible to send juice to the damn thing everything else works great! The way the way they designed it to except when it rains its crazy now. Its peaked perfectly I tried the 129 secondary dish that didn't work so lastly is there a way to augment the actual dish itself with more power so it does not lose signal while its raining?
Rain Is there a way to tweak a dish give it more Power
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Assuming you are right about peaking the dish, and assuming you don't have foliage or other obstacles impinging on your LOS, there is not much else you can do other than replace the dish pan with a larger dish, e.g. from a 1000+.
If you have a clear view of the sats, and you have good signals when there is no rain, you should not routinely lose the signal when it rains. Check your signal strength against this chart found in this thread and see if you are really getting a good signal to begin with.
http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=256056
http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=256056
Well seeing satellites are 22,300 miles from the equator just move yor dish to 11,000 miles from the satellite and that should at least double the strength. I don't know if that will super power it though?
Seriously the only way to offset the signal loss caused by rain drops is to increase the surface area of the reflector. Somewhere in the area of 10' is the starting point if I remember some discussions about NBC switching to Ku band.
Accurate aiming of your current dish along with good watertight connections will minimize rain fade.
Trying to "juice up" the lnbs will not do anything except burn them up. They receive only. They can only receive what is focused onto them by the dish reflector. The only way to have an effect on that is to aim the dish reflector properly or to increase the size of the reflector.
The problem with rain fade is physics. The length of a Ku signal is about the same size as a rain drop. To many raindrops and the signals are absorbed/blocked and the signal is lost. No matter, if you could, would juicing up a dish do anything, if the signal isn't getting through.
How to Eliminate Rain Problems
You have a common problem on your hands, what you want to do is minimize the effects of rain on your dish. When it gets wet, the surface tension of the raindrops on the surface of the dish causes the invisible satellite waves to "scatter" and not end up where they need to go. Here is how I solved the problem at my place. A picture is worth a thousand words.
You have a common problem on your hands, what you want to do is minimize the effects of rain on your dish. When it gets wet, the surface tension of the raindrops on the surface of the dish causes the invisible satellite waves to "scatter" and not end up where they need to go. Here is how I solved the problem at my place. A picture is worth a thousand words.
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Sarcasm nothing, that was just plain FUNNY! lol
I'm sure he didn't intend for anybody to take it seriously.
I'm sure he didn't intend for anybody to take it seriously.
On a rare occasion, even the enormous dishes that the networks, Dish and DirecTV use are overwhelmed by rain.
The rain just absorbs all the microwave that tries to get through it.
That's why the networks have alternate upload sites.
http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/294197-4-Dish-Sat-set-up
The rain just absorbs all the microwave that tries to get through it.
That's why the networks have alternate upload sites.
http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/294197-4-Dish-Sat-set-up
