Put the BBQ in the garage & watch the rain. Winter 2016 chat

[nelson_b]

Just tried to open my front door to go to work ..
It took all my strength to stop it being ripped from it's hinges ..
Closed it and came back inside ..
I may not bother with work today..
cest la vie..
In the meantime ...the VHF dipole is flat to the roof now ..the upright pole having been bent over by the wind ..
and this has little surface area ..
I dread to see what damge has been done outside ..
but I can't open a door to find out..

Hi --
Only 50 miles north of you .. and although we had torrential rain during the night and early this morning ... the winds have been only moderate to strong ... certainly not gale force .... as yet.

 

[Vipersan]

Hi --
Only 50 miles north of you .. and although we had torrential rain during the night and early this morning ... the winds have been only moderate to strong ... certainly not gale force .... as yet.

..You know my situation Nelson ..
To the West of me there is no cover ..
basically a wind tunnel...

Keep you hatches battened buddy ..
you may be next ..
..and we apparently haven't seen the peak yet..
Doh!

 

[nelson_b]

..You know my situation Nelson ..
To the West of me there is no cover ..
basically a wind tunnel...

Keep you hatches battened buddy ..
you may be next ..
..and we apparently haven't seen the peak yet..
Doh!

Hope i,v not spoken too soon then
its very exposed on this hillside

 

[sonnetpete]

It's moderated here with clear skies and sun. Anyway, I'm off to the windy city...I have a new toilet seat to fit...

 

[Vipersan]

Hope i,v not spoken too soon then
its very exposed on this hillside

Fingers crossed for you mate...
Though I'm running out of fingers here ..
Most are in use atm ..crossed for my roof etc..

 

[Vipersan]

..The dish at 54W is now vibrating less violently ...and the constant howl is do longer audible through the double glazing ..
Birds are slowly returning to the branches of leafless trees ...
Maybe the worst is over here ?
Hopefully..
But sure was fast moving ..
I have yet to pluck up courage and inspect for more damage ..
Stay safe peeps ..
rgds
VS

 

[Llew]

Had to anchor my exposed Gibby down with guy ropes after the polar mount twisted round quite a few degrees. Not going up there to turn it back - I turned the pole round instead, easy as I can access the pole clamps at ground level. Will need adjustment after the winds subside to peak it again on its last sat position.
It's seen off other windy periods before over the years - Doris, you are being particularly vicious around my patch :mad:

 

[Archive-8]

Saturday is supposed to have gale force winds also.

 

[jeallen01]

Looks like the Zone 2 dish has shifted in the wind - no signal to the Sky box downstairs!

Luckily, after a lot of fiddling with various stuff I hadn't done before, I got a decent signal from the free 28E signals on the tuner in the X275 (a separate volume control settings in Win7 and 2 more in ProgDVB didn't help!) and now finally watching Supervet on C4!

At least we can watch the last episode of Murder in Paradise (Yes, I know, but it's quite funny!) at 9pm (step-daughter is staying here tonight after deciding to stay incommunicado for the last 3 months - long story, not to bore you with that but it has caused family "issues" in the meantime).

However, we now have quite a noticeable sound sync issue as the sound leads the picture by about 0.5s - anyone know how to fix that?

 

[dankargo]

Sorry to hear about your zone 2 dish, jeallen01.

I was convinced that my 80cm was going to be dangling when I got home tonight, as from motor to dish, its only ever had one bolt holding it up (no idea why it was put up like that, but as its the centre one bolted, its actually pretty stern). Thankfully it took the 60mph winds and was still standing strong, oddly I'm actually getting a better signal reading then I did last night and its raining outside - I'm beginning to think the wind has shifted it back into position as it was ever so slightly out.

 

[jeallen01]

By comparison with what others are probably suffering my problems should be quite easy to fix

 

[archive10]

Well, just had two days worth of wind here, probably not Doris, but certainly precursors.
I think Doris is actually here right now - we've had some snowfall for the past 5 hours, but not as much as the worst-case forecast warned of (20 cm).





It's not frost yet, so the some snow melt quickly. (And provide very slippery road surfaces!)
(and look at the vibrant green colour under the trampoline - it's a camera-thing; it's not really that green this time of year!)

Anyway, here's a winter's dish for you:

 

[John Pykett]

here in hucknall we had rain but the winds were light over here so that means my zone 1 dish is okay

 

[dmaavrigdo]

Spring is coming Just had our first sun outage of the year.

 

[jeallen01]

I can hardly believe the following:
1) the Zone 2 dish had moved , but only slightly
2) in the end, and after a LOT of fiddling about behind the AV setup (including swopping the Sky HD box for an older one, and then trying to update the f/w on both without success - no signals from any output on the Quad LNB on that dish), I finally concluded that ALL FOUR of the LNBs in that Quad LNB appear to have failed! Now temporarily using the connections to the Twin LNB on the Triax (pointed at 28E) to run the Sky box whilst waiting for a replacement Quad for the Zone 2 dish!

 

[Archive-8]

Had to realign my sky dish today, added another 4.5 db to the blaze transponder 11081.

Hopefully it will stop blocking up on me.

I guess it's been off for a while.

All working now.

 

[PaulR]

Popped over to Liverpool today and while walking through Birkenhead saw the result of Doris's huff-and-puff.

Oh dear. Fancy leaving work, wanting to drive home and then finding your car is less than drivable!

 

[archive10]

I can hardly believe the following:
[...] I finally concluded that ALL FOUR of the LNBs in that Quad LNB appear to have failed!

Well, it could be could be "switch" portion of the LNB has failed. This will leave no outputs at all.
Cheap electronics, after all. I bet if you got one that cost 250 GBP it would outlast your house. Not worth it, though, if you can have a new one for a tenner. You can have 5 lying about for psares...

Which reminds me, as a Sat Nut, I would expect you would have a spare quad lying about somewhere ;)

Joking aside, its nice to see that that you have a back-up plan after all

 

[archive10]

Popped over to Liverpool today and while walking through Birkenhead saw the result of Doris's huff-and-puff.View attachment 104181 View attachment 104182

Oh dear. Fancy leaving work, wanting to drive home and then finding your car is less than drivable!

Apart from the damage to the cars, the wall construction strikes me as a bit weird? Bricks outside bricks, but no insulation?
Last time I saw cavity-insulation only was on a house from the 1910's (my parents'!)

 

[PaulR]

Not a house, some kind of warehouse or factory building. The building is basically a metal frame with the big holes filled up by bricks.