Learned something about satellite tv
Learned something today that most of you in the North already knew and most of us in the deep South did not. We had an unusual December 4 to 5 inch snow south of Birmingham during the night and mo...
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wa8yxm wrote:
Have known that since before Satallite TV was around.. Commercial Microwave towers (USed to toss TV from a studio in one city to a transmitter in another) all have heaters in them to melt the snow.
When we lived on a mountaintop in the Adirondacks, we had a 15' Hughes aimable C-band dish that used to collect a lot of snow. I programmed in a phantom satellite that would dump the dish almost completely over backwards when selected, usually getting rid of enough snow to get the signal back without me having to go out and clean it off. Now with these little KA/KU dishes, I just spray the face with dry silicone and snow usually just slides off.
