How are those dishes this morning?

snaps · 08-01-2005 10:31am #1

Just wondering if any one has lost their dishes this morning after the terrible strong winds last night? Galway had it pretty bad and I know that it was the worst wind I have ever known here. Thought the roof was going to go around 2am. Dishe's are all fine though amazing enough and all seem to still be aligned? I'm a bit worried about the lidl dishes/mounts that people have recently purchased!

Colm80 · 08-01-2005 11:08am

Mine is still hanging on there. Mind you i found my bin a mile down the road this morning. Thank god my dish has no wheels.

JoyPad · 08-01-2005 11:52am

It was knocked out of the alignment, I had to adjust the elevation this morning. The screws that keep the dish on a given elevation tighten across the plastic support, and that has a little give.
The worst part is that the bracket seems to be moving a bit now. I will definitely have to move the dish out of the wind's way, or I stand to lose it along with the bracket and half the wall.

Ronan|Raven · 08-01-2005 1:13pm

I have my lidl dish still beside me here since I fixed it up. Woke up at 5am to hear loud bang, donned pantaloons and rushed outside fearing the main dish ahd gone walkies, thank god it hadnt was just a bin from nextdoor rolling into their garage doors. Worst wind I remember here tbh (20years here) was viciously loud, now we have snow!

djpaul · 08-01-2005 5:28pm

Colm80 wrote:

Mine is still hanging on there. Mind you i found my bin a mile down the road this morning. Thank god my dish has no wheels.

Same here!! neighbour returned my bin this morning. when i switched on
i expected to see " NO SATELITE SIGNAL RECIEVED" but both dishes were
fine.

Aquos76 · 08-01-2005 5:32pm

I got about 5 phone calls this morning from people who needed their dishes realigned after last night.

bigpaddy2004 · 08-01-2005 7:18pm

Leonard wrote:

I got about 5 phone calls this morning from people who needed their dishes realigned after last night.

I had to leave the bloomin' phone off all day to-day, just checked the message minder there now and it's full!!

God Bless mother nature

Ronan|Raven · 08-01-2005 7:28pm

:-D When I used to work fulltime fixing pcs I used to love a good lightning storm !

Tony · 08-01-2005 8:39pm

same here, was pretty hairy even today

duridian · 08-01-2005 11:04pm

All 3 of my Lidl dishes were grand, but then again I did modify the mounting brackets of mine (during the week) to withstand nights like last night

Got my DiseqC switch from Tony & Co. as well during the week so I'm fully set up for now.

Mossy Monk · 09-01-2005 12:41pm

no signal for me but that was sorted withing 2 minutes

willg · 09-01-2005 5:12pm

The Quad LNB actually got blown right out of the socked on my dish .. not damaged though .. will have it going again pretty quickly.

Ronan|Raven · 09-01-2005 5:31pm

More storms tonight 60-70 mph

snaps · 09-01-2005 6:31pm

very windy again here in Galway. Winds been getting up since 2ish. Its not far off galeforce now.

duridian · 09-01-2005 7:52pm

Wind rising now here as well, not too severe yet but rising steadily for the past hour.

byte · 09-01-2005 8:53pm

Well my 80cm Astra1/Hotbird dish has totally lost signals now.

It was kinda broke already but the weather has totalled the signal now! The dish has no shelter anyway, it's 3ft up a pole with no wind barriers!

djpaul · 09-01-2005 9:53pm

duridian wrote:

Wind rising now here as well, not too severe yet but rising steadily for the past hour.

Starting up here now in Kilkenny, getting rough

Eurorunner · 09-01-2005 10:15pm

Mines out of alignment. Just got the ladder out with a view to sorting it but its pointless right now. The wind nearly blew me off the ladder (and its not all that high up).
The motor won't move - i hope its just water in the works or something - and that its not burn't out.

I can recollect storms but can never remember a time when theres been such high winds consistently over a period of days...

09-01-2005 10:27pm

Moved to the weather board

[/evil Grin]

ninebeanrows · 09-01-2005 10:36pm

Tut tut tut...........

Well as expected wind picking up across the country now
with gusts likely to reach 75mph in places...

Then Tuesday night see's a REAL STORM :eek: :eek:

Stay tuned to this Board 90mph Gusts from Tuesday feature
are likely across northern areas with large amounts of damage :eek:

Mothman · 11-01-2005 8:28am

Well in the winds the other night, my dishes didn't seem to move, but then the drainer in the kitchen doesn't seem to get buffeted by the wind...

How are those dishes this morning?

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