The benefits of proper dish alignment

kc0zhq

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Dec 29, 2007
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Denver, Colorado
We've had a little snow in Denver over the past couple days, and this is what I woke up to this morning. 119 was completely gone, but was still getting signal in the 20's on 110 and 129 conus and 45 on the 129 spotbeam. I must have had a great tech put this dish up.
 

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I get way more snow than that and it usually works. The trick is...does it work when it starts melting? That's when it gets dense.

I find that it can snow all night with no problem...even Wildblue works fine. But an hour or two after the sun comes out, everything goes dead.
 
my solution:
I have tall oaks in my yard, so my dish is 35' high off the top of my chimney, so the only time I get issues is heavy wet sticking snow, so I have an old 18" single lnb I have at ground level pointed at 61.5.
 
We've had a little snow in Denver over the past couple days, and this is what I woke up to this morning. 119 was completely gone, but was still getting signal in the 20's on 110 and 129 conus and 45 on the 129 spotbeam. I must have had a great tech put this dish up.

I was in Denver during one its worst snow storms (practically a blizzard, and I lived in Chicago for a year during the 2nd worst ever snow storm), and I have to say that your photo and associated "pains" are exactly why I live in Los Angeles :). I am so spoiled here; I'll never had to wake up in the morning and have to go out, before breakfast, and clear-off the dish, in my jammies. :). A lot of former residents of snow prone cities here in LA say they can't imagine EVER going back to live like that :) LOL! I hope it all melts so you don't have to clear it off.
 
couple weeks ago we had 4 inches of heavy wet snow and it clung to the C-Band dish I have...I like the snowball effect that happened on the right hand side of the dish :)
 

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I was in Denver during one its worst snow storms (practically a blizzard, and I lived in Chicago for a year during the 2nd worst ever snow storm), and I have to say that your photo and associated "pains" are exactly why I live in Los Angeles :). I am so spoiled here; I'll never had to wake up in the morning and have to go out, before breakfast, and clear-off the dish, in my jammies. :). A lot of former residents of snow prone cities here in LA say they can't imagine EVER going back to live like that :) LOL! I hope it all melts so you don't have to clear it off.
Yeah but when LA slides into the ocean, you're dish wont be working then. lol
 
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