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

[Dennis Cope]

Stupidity,,  They would rather spend money talking about a fix than spending
money fixing the problem.

Personally, I like the idea of heating the dish with strip heaters,
hopefully with the upcoming upgrade we will get something installed.

I just got into deep do-do because I forced them (went over managements
heads) to get closed A/C in the transmitter shelters.. We used to exhaust
the waste transmitter heat outside and because we live on the coast the
make-up air was moist and salty (can you imagine).  But I am still in deep
do-do...

Dennis
WCTG, WESR, NOAA
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There are forced air de-icing systems available as well as clamped on
electric element systems for just about any dish.  Other than money
concerns why would a 24/7 organization not install one of these systems,
especially on larger dishes (2.4m and up)?  I ask this not as a
sarcastic comment but as a real question to help me better understand
the operational side.  We install a few uplinks every year and we always
install de-icing but these are generally big-budget ops.


Thanks,


Allen



Allen Porter
Network Systems Engineer
Convergent Media Systems
770.369.9663
http://www.convergent.com