Why Us Again ??

[Vipersan]

I'm sat in the back catching up on my Crosswords owing to the foul weather and I can see my 80cm Motorised flapping about like a Seal on speed.

Good luck Gordon ..
I hope your dish survives ..
Its that oscillation that convinced me to stop using the edge on approach ..
If the brackets are well secured ...I'm convinced its better face on or better still ...rear on to the bulk of the wind..
rgds
VS

 

[Vipersan]

Lol ..
Nice one CH ...
an endless supply of water here ..so no rush ..
;)
I could try catching some pummice and ash ..if you need any ...
_That_ should be arriving from the West ..tomorrow or the day after..
rgds
VS

 

[Huevos]

Flat calm here:
_http://uk.weather.com/weather/today-Alicante-SPXX0008

 

[Lazarus]

Ah, but we are not plagued by asps ...............

 

[Huevos]

Ah, but we are not plagued by asps ...............

"asps"???

No plagues here at the moment either.

 

[Lazarus]

"asps"???

No plagues here at the moment either.

You have on a number of previous occasions mentioned snakes ..................... Something the heat (of which you generously remind us semi-eskimos) tends to bring out

 

[sonnetpete]

No sign of gales, rain, asps, frogs or locusts here. No volcanic ash cloud either (it's bound to come up sooner or later). Lovely clear sky, a bit breezy with temperatures in upper 20s (°C)

If it does get windy, I try and move my dish edge on to the wind but may think of doing otherwise in the future.

 

[Lazarus]

The ash can bu**er orf - we're flying from Leeds to Alicante a week on Saturday!

Fortunately, the wind is beginning to abate: It peaked about an hour ago and was accompanied by a heavy squall of horizontal driving rain.

Dishes look intact, but will do System Operator Checks when I get back from the Doc's.

 

[OldBen]

Lots wind down south, few branches down on the way back from lunch and plenty of tree debris in general in the road, so the soft southern pansies taking a battering as well (my TD110 is still in a box in the garage, safest place for it? ;)

 

[A nonymous]

Well fortunately my motorised Penta 85 survived the wind without as much as a murmor

My 60cm Channel master moved slightly which i found quite odd as i had to really slacken the bolts off to move it back. It still worked but the BER was creaping in a little so i thought i'd better line it back up again this evening.

Nano

 

[Analoguesat]

All dishes intact despite the ferocious squally weather yesterday

 

[satelliteman]

My 60cm Channel master moved slightly which i found quite odd as i had to really slacken the bolts off to move it back. It still worked but the BER was creaping in a little so i thought i'd better line it back up again this evening.

Nano

Maybe, just maybe.... it wasn't aligned up properly when installed ;)

Probably the knackered ST4

 

[A nonymous]

Nah i lined it up with the old DL4 and it was cock on

 

[Vipersan]

..worth checking that the lnb arm is still at right angles to the dish plane ??
if its moved about half an inch off vertical ..it can be equivilant to a 1 degree shift in the dish..
Certainly the lnb arms flail about in strong winds sufficient to bend 'em off true..
rgds
VS

 

[jpsr]

my motorized dish moved a slight bit, so i decressed my long setting in usuals to fine tune my dish.

When i installed my dish at the end of 2010 i set my long to 7.3, with all the bad weather its now down to 6.2, but it saves getting up and down the ladder and the signal quality is still the same as it always was.

 

[Lazarus]

I do the same, but a few tenths more and it'll all fall off a cliff.

 

[jpsr]

True , i was thinking the same my self , there is only so much fine tuning can be done.

When the weather picks up i might go up and re-allign the dish, its only the east and west position of the dish i have to fix, but before i do that does anyone know the name of the strap used so the motor wont slide down the pole, because my bolts on the elevation of the dish cant go through much more spanners and also it would be a lot more easier to allign.

 

[petediscrete]

You guys complain about the high winds knocking your dishes out of alignment.I'd say the folks around the mid-west in the States dishes are flying like frisbies along with their houses.I reckon Obama is hiding out this side of the pond till the weather passes.Puts things in perspective really.

 

[sonnetpete]

.....does anyone know the name of the strap used so the motor wont slide down the pole, because my bolts on the elevation of the dish cant go through much more spanners and also it would be a lot more easier to allign.

I just use a suitably sized jubilee clip, the sort you fit on a car radiator pipe. Fixed on the pole, just under the motor it lets you manouver the motor to align it, without the worry of it slipping down.

 

[Vipersan]

You guys complain about the high winds knocking your dishes out of alignment.I'd say the folks around the mid-west in the States dishes are flying like frisbies along with their houses.I reckon Obama is hiding out this side of the pond till the weather passes.Puts things in perspective really.

I totally aree PD ..
It is a matter of perspecive ..
I'm not complaining so much about the severity of the winds ..so much as commenting on the increased frequency with which these high winds are now visiting us ..
3 times in 5 months is a bit too frequent imo ..
And the one around christmas flattened my 1.8 pf ..
resulting in almost a month of hard graft to get it back up and functional again ..
If I had to pay an installer to fix me up every time this sort of thing happened ..I'd be many hundreds ..if not a few thousand out of pocket..
So ..I see no harm in discussing wind damage to dishes ..and the best ways to minimise the effects..
rgds
VS
;)