Damn Storms!!!

mjsmyth

I guess I will be spending part of tonight realigning my dish! Quality dropped from almost 100% to about 25% due to the battering the dish took last night from the wind.

Oh well

mj

TheDriver

my dish went to 0% to find i obviously didn't tighten one of the nuts too well but only small adjustments needed!

Foggy43

When I was in Ireland during the summer looking at 80cm and bigger dishes they had a wind factor in the specs.
I cannot remember the figures. Is this something you should seriously bear in mind when going for any dish?

Edit: I suppose common sense will tell you to mount shaded from the prevailing winds if possible!

watty

The longer the pole, the more leverage (up to 4 tonnes on 90cm in a storm)

How exposed the site is.

If it is above a roof or wall E-W behind it it mounted on etc.

Ronan|Raven

well mine have all held up well, have two dishes on one 4foot pole, held onto a decent set of t@k brackets and held into mass concrete walls with 6 inch bolts.

Was looking at the 1m dish on the motor at the top of the pole that overlooks by guttering, shaking like mad but no vibration as the pole is well secured and no real room for it to flex, heavy pole as well, good heavy wall on it. Neither of these two dishes moved an inch, signal strength all OK, on my third 90cm that is mounted on my flat roof on a hole made stand out of some 8"RSJ and 5 foot pipe, held down with two large sandbags, glad it say not one mm of movement out of it.

mjsmyth

Got nothing at home now...

I figure a nut was not as tight as it could have been on the vertical axis. I can live without satellite tv for the night, although I had hoped to catch the newcastle game on ZDF tonight.

Ah well.. now then now then now then, what to watch on dvd.

mj

JohnC.

Ours must have been mounted well. It is on the windiest side of the house, by a lane which acts a bit like a wind tunnel. And even with the amazing wind recently, I've not seen the quality drop at all.

L1011

Had to realign my motorised twice to storms unaligning it, thank feck for analogue for a quick rough position finding (and more reliable signal tweaking, having my image quality obsessed brother telling me if theres sparklies ). This country is too windy for large dishes - unless they're C band mesh of course.

kramlq

My LIDL 80cm dish finally broke. I've heard it happen to others before, so I suppose was lucky to get a few years years out of it.

It was ground mounted (and in a corner, bolted into two heavy paving slabs) but it still moved about 2 feet and the plastic bit that holds the LNB arm broke. It had a twin invacom LNB on it, probably worth more than the dish, but that seems ok :-)

TheDriver

the lnb arm of mine is kept on by cable ties and not a budge in the wind though the dish itself is pointing towards the ground at moment so I think lots more cable ties before I must buy a new dish!!
Expect few sky installers having plenty of jobs over next few days from all the people afraid to adjust their own dish

mjsmyth

Problem solved, amazing what movement of 2 or 3 degrees on the vertical does

mj