Best way to remove snow
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No I don't work for the NSA but I believe we have a staff member who might.(And thats all I can say about that.)
I have quite a number of DISH's here. Running a dite like this I need to be able to see the Eastern Arc and Western Arc just incase someone has or reports an issue. In addition the Western Arc stuff is used by our uplink PC.
So we have the following...
DISH 500 pointed at 110 & 119. DISH 300 pointed at 61.5. DISH 1000.4 DISH pointed at 61.5, 72.7 and 77 degrees, a DIRECTV 5 LNB dish. 8 foot movable C Band DISH and a 4 foot movable KU band dish. Unlike other satellite site owners I actually like and use satellite technology.
The pic @ the mailbox says it all...
Any tax incentives for having a dish farm in Conn.? 
Storm finished here ... 36" (3') ... tried to upload pics mobile, but system crashed it says
Power/electric went out at 4:40 .... power company says it will be restored by 10
Power/electric went out at 4:40 .... power company says it will be restored by 10
Snow ?
We put the temperature controlled heaters made for satellite TVRO dish's on our higher elevation installs. And yes we live in sunny socialist Kalifornia, but remember we have the highest mountain in the continental U.S. ! and snow accumulation at Blue ridge Ca. might be from 10 to 20 FEET. So where i came from "Minnesota" their snow amount does not register much on yard sticks. LOL
We put the temperature controlled heaters made for satellite TVRO dish's on our higher elevation installs. And yes we live in sunny socialist Kalifornia, but remember we have the highest mountain in the continental U.S. ! and snow accumulation at Blue ridge Ca. might be from 10 to 20 FEET. So where i came from "Minnesota" their snow amount does not register much on yard sticks. LOL
We got over 2 feet of snow here in Eastern Connecticut! I have had Dish Network for over 12 years and this is the first time that I have lost signal for more than a few minutes. It went out yesterday at about 1 PM and it is still out. The dish is on the roof because we had to clear the trees in our yard to get a signal. Not sure how I am going to clear off the dish. Too much snow on the roof to try going up there.
When I used to have mine at the peak of the roof, I once drug out the garden hose & sprayed it off. I was, however, a frozen mess by the time I finished. 
We got 32" here according to Jiminy Peak Ski resort web site which is just across the field from us. After we came in from last round of snowblowing/shoveling last night around 6 we had lost 72 satellite, but still had 61.5. I had to put a ladder up and clime up on my roof and trudge through mid thigh deep snow and 8 degree air temperature plus wind to get to my dish on the second level of our split level in the dark. Looked a lot like Scott's. Once I cleaned the foot or so of snow off of the dish and worked the ice that had accumulated on the LNB off, our signal was back. I shoveled around the dish a bit so hopefully the blowing snow we have now will not cause any more problems. This is the first time we have lost any signal on our EA which we've had since November. We only have a small window for LOS so that is pretty much the only place for the dish short of putting it in our lawn quite a way from the house, which I really don't want to do.
I connected a hot water faucet outside a few years ago to make washing my vehicles a bit easier. I keep the hose in the house over the winter so it's nice and flexible when I need to occasionally take it outside to blast the snow off of the dish! Works like a charm....
As someone who has been at one time or another a customer of PrimeStar (anyone remember them?), DirecTV, and now Dish Network, I have to say Dish is the best when it comes to maintaining a signal even in nasty weather. Primestar was probably the worst, you lost your signal even if it drizzled! DirecTV, forget it, whenever it snowed, I was dusting off the dish every 5 minutes. It's snowed quite a bit here in the last 3 weeks I've had Dish, haven't had to brush that thing off yet!
I had all three of those sat companies in my house at one time or another. In fact a few years ago I had both DIRECTV and DISH using hd receivers. I always lost DIRECTV way before DISH and for longer . I was using the huge slimline for DIRECTV and a 1000.2 for my DISH receivers. I now have eastern arc 1000.4 sat dish and I eliminated DIRECTV. I lose my signal even less with the eastern arc dish than I did the western arc dish. It rained all last weekend and it was a steady drizzley to heavy rain over and over and I only lost my picture for a short while when the sky dropped out and it poured. Of course I peaked the eastern arc dish myself and I get the maximum signal strength on all 3 sats that I can get.
