The benefits of proper dish alignment

[kc0zhq]

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.

 

[Laddyboy]

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.

Brrrrr. Winters is coming too fast.

 

[lern4483]

I like the snow for maybe a day..

 

[DirectDishNet]

Thats global warming for ya!
Send that pic to Al Gore.

 

[Slamminc11]

Thats global warming for ya!
Send that pic to Al Gore.

Yeah, because snow in Denver, Colorado means that global warming was a complete hoax!

 

[M Sparks]

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.

 

[Mark0]

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.

 

[Mr Tony]

thats too early for snow...then again here in Mpls we had that Halloween blizzard back in 91
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[DishSubLA]

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.

 

[MikeInAlaska]

In Alaska the snow accumulates on the back of the dish : )

 

[allargon]

thats too early for snow...then again here in Mpls we had that Halloween blizzard back in 91
Halloween Blizzard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I remember that blizzard well. (I went to the U!) That 27" was exactly my inseam at the time. I had to hop up and down above the snow line while walking to class. Every time I landed I got a cold jolt to jump back up again.

 

[Mr Tony]

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

 

[Awohar]

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