If this is for me, I have my Dishes on poles, at eye level, they are protected from snow as I mentioned in an earlier post.
Dan
Keeping snow off dish
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If this is for me, I have my Dishes on poles, at eye level, they are protected from snow as I mentioned in an earlier post.
Dan
When I was installing 1.8 and 2.4 meter Vsat dishes in the Northwest we would paint the face with "Vellox" It makes it really slippery and snow has a harder time sticking to it and much more easy to brush off, hardly ever had a service call for snow buildup. I'm not sure where you would get some. Also like in a previous post heating strips are good for not letting ice build up especially on the LNB. That's my 2 Cents.....
I use rainx, I pour it on a microfiber cloth and apply it to the dish and it works great. You can also use an extension pole like painters use with with the attachment that is used with ceiling fan cleaning brush. Those ceiling fan brushes used to clean the fan blades screw off of the pole and will fit on the extension pole.
PAM or other non stick frying pan spray works pretty good.
In order for snow to accumulate, the surface must be cold enough to prevent the snow from melting. Products containing petroleum products will retard the process by which snow "sticks" to metal.
Here's the rub...In the case of a heavy wet snow, not only does the density of the flakes block the signal, so does the accumulation of water and snow on the surface of the dish. In that case, the snow must be cleaned off the dish. Now for the fun part. A light powdery snow will allow the satellite signal to pass through.
Straight hot water will have the opposite effect. Hot water mixed with windshield washer fluid and ......a little bit of auto coolant will work. MYTH....DO NOT ADD SALT to the water.
Even better is to relocate the dish to Hawaii or some other place where snow is not a problem.
Tell then they owe you for making sure they had a roof over their head while you allowed them to grow up.
Tell them it is time to "collect".
Of you could do what my Mom does...."You know, your father could use a little help with that"....Yeah, thanks. Like I can say "no" to that!
I just brush it off from the edge of the roof with a broom since the it's not really high but I do have to get on top of a big central air unit to get to
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Never had a problem with it before and we get tons of snow here, but dish installed one of those new black dish's this year so we will see. I think it has something to do with where it is mounted though because my aunt who live 40 miles from me gets tons of snow and she has to beat the hell out of her dish with a broom she's so mad when she loses signal. I mean this woman is 65 and gets out there and just whacks that poor thing to kingdom come. I'm like you are going to throw that out of alignment, but by that point she doesn't care she's so mad. I should take a picture of this thing the next time I go back you would think this dish has been through a couple of tornado's and been on the house 15 years. In reality its been there 4.
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Move up here where I am at 65 degrees north, I have 5 dishes for Dish and Shaw Direct they are all below horizontal pointing toward the ground!
So, instead of having to worry about storm clouds or snow interfering with your signal, you have to wait for the caribou herds to go by?
This solution is about the best I've heard. Just don't let any of the light miss the dish and go: Into the neighbors window; down the street to blind a driver.
Well, here in Colorado we get a lot of snow. I said I'd report back if the new black dish was any better or not. First impression is that they are worse. We just got a couple inches of wet gooey snow and had total loss of signal. My dish is fortunately easy to get to and the snow easily removed with a broom. I think I may try the flood light idea, would be pretty simple for me ... neighbors aren't an issue, nearest one is quarter mile away.
I have used the Rainex brand windshield washing product on my dish and it works quite well. I used a microfiber cloth and soaked the cloth with the solution and then applied evenly onto the dish. With the Rainex product there is no buildup of dirt or dust, using the Pam product will result in a dirt buildup over time.
