Batton down your large dishes!

snaps · 12-01-2010 10:02am #1

Very windy out there this morning (Especially in the west). Wind is coming from a strange direction (SE/E), My dish that is usually sheltered from the wind is getting it big time.

yop · 12-01-2010 10:47am

lol too fricking late!

Mine took flight and is now a bathing pool for the birds!!!

Zardoz · 12-01-2010 1:18pm

I just moved the dish to 30W but it may be too late.It took a hammering last night but thats par for the course .

Ronan|Raven · 12-01-2010 5:35pm

I have tonsillitis and a fever that is not amusing me, it can blow away for all I care! It is in a sheltered position though and has survived everything the last 5 years has thrown at it.

cauliflower69 · 12-01-2010 8:01pm

Mine been fine so far, great when you use a scaffolding pole as it really grips it

twig · 12-01-2010 11:12pm

Mine is still on the roof but no signal on any of the channels. It took a right battering last night, the wind was ridiculous.

TVDX · 14-01-2010 8:25pm

Saw this thread a day too late. Great early prediction. I noticed the wind was coming in a strange direction that night. Then the following day, the dish had been blown from 29 to 40 degree elevation angle. The wind had literally whipped up the dish 11 degrees. It's a Triax 88cm with multi feed. It stayed on the mount and I just managed to re-align it there.

downwiththatsor · 15-10-2017 6:20pm

Apologies for dragging up old thread but i have 90cm on east facing wall, where is best to park the dish? Is the fact that wind direction will change as storm passes mean that best thing is to just hope for the best ?

Greenman · 15-10-2017 8:20pm

Keep us posted on how it all turns out. :-)

downwiththatsor · 15-10-2017 8:33pm

Greenman wrote: »

Keep us posted on how it all turns out. :-)

It survived Darwin but that was westerly so sheltered by house, fingers crossed.

downwiththatsor · 16-10-2017 3:04pm

The dish has survived to tell the tale, we seem to have missed the worst today, further east in cork took the brunt it looks like.

STB. · 17-10-2017 6:49pm

Motorised TD110 attached to the concrete shed via a pole and T&K bracket that sits the dish just above the shed fine. Thought that would definitely take flight.

Stationary TD88 on the other hand practically reefed from the wall. Now rehoused on side of house in the dark. Night time tweaking by sight, first time, get in.

Oat23 · 18-10-2017 2:08pm

I was worried my dish would come off the wall and fall 25ft to the ground. In the end I wouldn't have even noticed anything unusual weather-wise had nobody been talking about a storm.

We got off lucky over here.

Batton down your large dishes!

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