[VOOM] Re: Rain Fade on Satellite Truck dish

[Brian Vowell]

That's not surprising. You're comparing two different things. Those
mobile trucks usually lease some frequency for the duration of their
transmission. It's not always Ku-band like your small 18" dish, and
the larger dish is needed to operate in C-band. Also, the sheer size
of a large dish makes it perfect to be a large metal sail, and those
mobile trucks don't have the same supports that you'd get if you sunk
a pole down into some concrete like you would in a permanent
installation. We've had problems with 1.2m dishes that we attached on
the top of an 18 story building that needed realignment in a storm
with 60mph winds.


--b

--- In VOOM@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Heitner" <ddprobert@y...> wrote:
> No sir, I wasn't trying to lessen the danger of the hurricane in any
way,
> shape or form. I was only trying to make the point that the winds
must be
> incredible to affect a 5 foot+ size dish.. compared to our standard 18"
> dish.



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[Timothy Fouts]

Finally back online. Had to buy AOL "free trial" for a month. I live=20
9 miles from Pensacola in Santa Rosa County. This place is a war zone.=20
Half of Pensacola has power back but here in Santa Rosa we are 100%=20
without--the transmission lines that bring it to our substations were=20
destroyed. it will be three more weeks for me. On house generator-10=20
gallons of gas a day.

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eye was 25 miles offshore and then the power went out because tornados=20
blew the lines down. Only had 3 panels blown out of my 10" C-Band=20
dish. Will fix that Saturday. I should go into the tree service=20
business because when I finish cutting up the 40 trees I lost, I will=20
be an expert! Otherwise, we are grateful to God to be alive.

On Sep 18, 2004, at 2:50 PM, Brian Vowell wrote:

> That's not surprising.=A0 You're comparing two different things.=A0 Those
> mobile trucks usually lease some frequency for the duration of their
> transmission.=A0 It's not always Ku-band like your small 18" dish, and
> the larger dish is needed to operate in C-band.=A0 Also, the sheer size
> of a large dish makes it perfect to be a large metal sail, and those
> mobile trucks don't have the same supports that you'd get if you sunk
> a pole down into some concrete like you would in a permanent
> installation.=A0 We've had problems with 1.2m dishes that we attached on
> the top of an 18 story building that needed realignment in a storm
> with 60mph winds.=A0
>
>
> --b
>
> --- In VOOM@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Heitner" <ddprobert@y...> wrote:
> > No sir, I wasn't trying to lessen the danger of the hurricane in any
> way,
> > shape or form. I was only trying to make the point that the winds
> must be
> > incredible to affect a 5 foot+ size dish.. compared to our standard=20
> 18"
> > dish.
>
>
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