Parking Motorised dish in stormforce gales

Zardoz

Does anyone know the optimum position to park a motorised dish at in these vicious gales to minimise the load on the dish ?
The back of my house faces due south and I have my 1m dish on the East facing wall about 2 yards back from the South wall.
Its the most sheltered spot I could locate it but its still being hammered in these insane gales.
I've moved it to 30W so its facing in towards the East wall .
Is that the best spot or should I park it at another angle ?
I've had the dish up 9 month and she is holding strong but I dont know how much more punishment it can take.
One things for sure the Irish Climate is not suitable for motorised dishes.

netwhizkid

I generally park mine at around 8 degrees west which is facing about due south, so as to face the dish edge first into the wide which usually blows in off the atlantic from the West. I am upgrading from an 80cms to 1 metre dish whenever I get the next dry day to fit the new dish, our weather is totally unsuited to dishes really and I am moving up from 80 to 1m over the rain and reckon I will have to go upto around 1.5 sturdy with a polar motor instead of the diseqc type ones.

stevethesatguy

westerly gales tonight so park your dish at right angles to the gales,,,mine is parked at 13 east and picture is stable.

Zardoz

I have parked the dish at 28E over the last few days but the damage was done before that.
Dish seems to be off the arc ,missing all eastern sats past 28E.
I manually adjusted the rotor positions ,most of them were shifted west,which seems odd as the wind is from that direction.
16E is barely watchable but I have everything else from 30w-28e ,albeit lower signal quality that before.
Will have to get the ladder out on a calm fine day which will probably be ...never.:mad:

MiketheMechanic

I agree - its best park the dish at 90 degrees to the expected wind direction.

Of course, the wind direction changes during the depression/storm, (e.g. from Northwest to West to Southwest) but you get the basic idea.

MtM

Galway

Mine was left on 13 east, and seems fine. All secure Steve!