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

[Dennis Cope]

>  recommend a heater.   :-)

Our dish has a cover, so a heater wouldn't do much for it... unless it blew
warm air at the cover. Believe me, I *have* thought of putting a small
forced-air portable heater out there, under the cover... but that would
mess-up the
focus of the signal, so it's not a viable option.

How would the heater mess up the focus of the signal.  GE is using this same
thing on one of their Earth Stations
The heater is on the ground and has a insulated hose up to the dish (about
15').  All they have to do is remember
to fire up the heater..

The dish is at a fairly steep angle. The cover is virtually flat, and even
at
that steep angle, the stupid wet snow sticks like oatmeal mixed with glue.
It
takes some doing to broom the thing off!

Willie...

Where are you located?

Dennis
WESR, WCTG, NOAA
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