Sat dishes vs snow (was "Re: [BC] KFI Tower replacement ?")

[Robert Meuser]

Willie

Just hang a tarp across the front of the dish, attach at the top put some 
weights on the bottom. It will flap in the wind and shake the snow off.

R

RRSounds at aol.com wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:39:41 EST, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:
> 
> <<
> In a message dated 01/03/2006 8:38:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> feehlee at fcc.net writes:
> 
> Try going to this link: http://www.cytonix.com/fluorothane.html This 
>  expensive stuff but seems to work pretty well at least with their little 
>  demo piece of plastic coated with their stuff.   Water forms little tiny 
>  round droplets on the coating.   It refuses to get wet!
>                                            Fee Lee 
> 
> Hmmm... but "wet" isn't the problem. It's wet *snow* that sticks to this 
> thing like oatmeal.
> 
> Also, this quote from that site concerns me: "M-type coatings are also 
> reported to protect against snow accumulation under some conditions." *What* 
> conditions?
> 
> What about "Rain-X" (or "Rain Dance") car waxes? This thing is some kind of 
> teflon-like rubberized (vinyl?) fiberglass canvas. It's *very* heavy and very 
> 
> tough. I want something that will work with it, and not cause it to degrade.
> 
> Willie...
> 
> 
> 
> The further north you go, the lower the 'look' angle for a geosynchronous 
> satellite.
> The lower the look angle, the easier for the snow to slide out. But of 
> course, the further north, the more snow.
> 
> Life is full of conundrums, isn't it?
> :-)
> 
> Unfortunately, unless the dish is nearly vertical, snow (wet snow, in 
> particular) is gonna stick!
> 
> Shortly before I left my job as Manager of Radio Ops at WNYC to go to Z100 
> (1988), our NPR dish atop the Municipal Building was badly snowed in. My boss 
> found a paint product called "Vellox" that allegedly would repel moisture, and 
> was claimed to be a godsend for satellite dishes. So, I ordered a couple of 
> cans and the following summer they applied it. Had to paint an undercoat, then 
> the Vellox slippery stuff. Some time later when I was there visiting, they 
> showed me a photo of the dish. Covered in snow. So much for easy solutions. I 
> recommend a heater.   :-)
> 
> My other experience with sat dishes vs snow was at MSNBC/CNBC in Ft. Lee, NJ 
> in 1997. The roof on their building has numerous big dishes, and one day that 
> winter when I worked there, there was a really major storm. We drew straws 
> every hour or so to decide who was to go out on 'broom patrol.' Some of the 
> dishes are on pedestals, and were really hard to clean, even from a ladder. But 
> going up on the roof was a great excuse for an impromptu snowball fight!!
> 
> Great fun for this Florida boy.
> 
> 
> David P. Reaves, III
> TransLanTech Sound, LLC
> Creators of the Award-Winning "Ariane Stereo Audio Leveler"
> 
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