We live so far out in the country they have to pipe in sunshine. The only way we get anything approximating high speed internet is the snail's pace data satellite. The only way we get any TV at all is the video satellite.
Unfortunately, satellite dishes appear to be snow magnets. One good way we have of detecting snow without looking outside is that we lose internet and TV, usually within a half an hour of each other.
I've tried the old trash-bag radome idea and the hot water squirt gun idea and while they work marginally, the wind generally gets to the trash bag in a couple of hours and the hot water from the squirt gun gets translated into an ice sheet in about the same amount of time. Besides, the video dish is a good 25' vertical and 40' horizontal from where I have to stand to use the squirt gun.
I've thought about thermal epoxying a couple of low-value resistors to the back of the dish and heating them up but the thoughts about most of the heat going to warming up the breeze makes a thermal blanket over the outside of the resistor pretty mandatory. That seems to be a kludge.
Any thoughts appreciated. And no, Thompson, I'm not moving to Phoenix {;-)
Jim