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

[Dennis Cope]

 The tarp idea is the best I've ever come up with, except
 that I used bungie cords to put tension at the bottom, rather than weights.

 It works for several reasons.
 It shakes in the wind.
 The surface of the tarp isn't dished, so more snow tends to slide off
 from the git-go.
 If it isn't windy, a smack with a broom will shake it enough for the snow
 to fall off, so it minimizes the cleaning work in those few instances when
 it might fail. Pretty much takes a dead calm for it not to work, though.
 A non-conductive tarp is transparent to the radio signals, so it doesn't
 affect the performance of the dish.
 There's no electric bill, as there would be with heaters of any kind.
 It's simple. KISS !

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Cowboy

http://cowboys.homeip.net

Old soldiers never die.  Young ones do.


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Wonder where I can get a tarp to fit a 60' dish...

Cowboy..

I did the grounding experiment with our Broadcast Tools Switcher and found
the problem to be common mode..

Put two split beads on the offending input and the problem was solved,
Thanks..

Dennis
WCTG, WESR