Windy weekend ahead!

[Analoguesat]

as i am sat here and typing this im next to a window, my dish is right outside this window.....i can see it flapping about in the wind not happy

i cant get any channels now at all, i just hope nothing breaks

Get the dish secured before it goes flying and hits someone in the face.

Im 50% offline too - No signals from Sirius so the 1m has moved on its mount. The 13E is staring forlornly at the sky. 19E is back up and running. No damage to the 28E Sky dish. Not doing any re-alignments just now - its sleeting outside

 

[BGonaSTICK]

It sunny here.

No wind ATM, no dish moement, and my big dish is still under the bush where I left it!

Might pop down the beach later...

 

[Analoguesat]

Now I know why your tag line reads warped & twisted.... We are wrapping up warm and going down to the river a mile away to see how high it is.

 

[gameboy]

Get the dish secured before it goes flying and hits someone in the face.

How would you go about this? I was thinking about a way of locking it into position in high winds any ideas?

Can't think of a way to lock the motor which I assume is the weakest link...

Come up with a gadget and you could clean up... anybody.

 

[Analoguesat]

A safety chain looped round the LNB arm and mounting pole ?? Loose enough to allow movement but strong enough to support the dish if it comes adrift. Something coated in plastic would stop it rubbing too much (maybe a chain from a bike shop?)

PS - in follow up to my earlier comment, The river is incredibly high.....

 

[RedDevil_UK]

i was actually thinking of manually moving the dish right round till its up against the wall?

that way it wont wobble about in high wind.... but i dont know if forcing it into the wall will be good for the motor?

if we all get our heads together im sure we can think of something?? im not impressed having to realign everytime the wind gets heavy

 

[Lancelot]

Friend of mine in his pre motor days used several different lengths of light chain bolted to the wall and hooked into the lip of the dish through two drilled holes to get 19 / 13 e. Maybe two lengths that fit your fave Sat and hooked in to keep it steady in gales then at least you can still watch something


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[RedDevil_UK]

ummm yea, better than nothing. and by locking it to 13e i can still watch the footy

i have to wonder if it is better to get a bigger dish, one that actually sits in the garden?? then in high winds i can cover it up.

good excuse to tell the misses why i need a HUGE dish too

 

[steffan_st]

Well the winds has reached south east Sweden by now,have never seen anything like it here!!!

Hope I still have the borrowed Fibo antenna and the SG-2100 on the wall in the morning,but maybe i will have to pick them up in my neighbours garden tomorrow....

 

[gameboy]

BBC weather have just said the winds have move to Europe - so look out.

Confirmed by steffan_st

 

[remlap]

The supermaket dish I installed was BLOWN of it mount bracket it broke the plastic mount out of the inclination adjustment holes think that the right jargon

 

[gameboy]

The supermaket dish

Was that a Lidl dish?

They have plastic mounts?

 

[steffan_st]

The supermaket dish I installed was BLOWN of it mount bracket it broke the plastic mount out of the inclination adjustment holes think that the right jargon

your location remlap?

 

[me123]

the wind died down late afternoon and all channels were back up and running, though some were breaking up a bit. Now the wind is calm but I am getting no signal on anything - including all free to air channels - except TPS. How can I get TPS and nothing else, anyone?

 

[Skint]

here in Norfolk I got as far as standing next to my poll mounted 1m dish with spanners in hand
but decided to turn my dish to 30E and hope for the best
the wind died down late afternoon and now all is well

 

[me123]

here in Norfolk I got as far as standing next to my poll mounted 1m dish with spanners in hand
but decided to turn my dish to 30E and hope for the best
the wind died down late afternoon and now all is well

All is pretty much normal again now so I wonder if weather conditions elsewhere caused the problems as I just saw Russian telly footage of major gale damage and flooding in Denmark, Germany, Estonia.

 

[timbo86]

I thought that with my mount welded to my mast that it might surrvie,but I have never saw winds in Northern Ireland like it in my short life!

 

[brewby]

Cannot praise my Stab hh 120 motor/80cmKosomo dish enough, not one bit of movement no realligning all sats and channels normal despite reported gusts up to 84mph.

 

[Analoguesat]

Cannot praise my Stab hh 120 motor/80cmKosomo dish enough, not one bit of movement no realligning all sats and channels normal despite reported gusts up to 84mph.

You are off everybody's Christmas card list now! ;)

 

[brewby]

Now now, engineering excellence comes as standard in Yorkshire. The impossible we do straight away, miracles take a tad longer, Rome wasn,t built in a day, but I didn't do that job, I could go on but I'm blushing and farting now. Thinking of applying for a job as a S*Y installer but I would probably tighten the mountings too tight and not have any return work to charge exhorbitant fees for.
Good day kind sir