Thermal Connection

RST Engineering · 2011-03-28T20:36:37+00:00

We live so far out in the country they have to pipe in sunshine. Theonly way we get anything approximating high speed internet is thesnail's pace data satellite. The only way we get any TV at all is thevideo satellite.Unfortunately, satellite dishes appear to be snow magnets. One goodway we have of detecting snow without looking outside is that we loseinternet 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 gunidea and while they work marginally, the wind generally gets to thetrash bag in a couple of hours and the hot water from the squirt gungets translated into an ice sheet in about the same amount of time.Besides, the video dish is a good 25' vertical and 40' horizontal fromwhere I have to stand to use the squirt gun. I've thought about thermal epoxying a couple of low-value resistors tothe back of the dish and heating them up but the thoughts about mostof the heat going to warming up the breeze makes a thermal blanketover the outside of the resistor pretty mandatory. That seems to be akludge.Any thoughts appreciated. And no, Thompson, I'm not moving to Phoenix{;-)Jim

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John Larkin 15 years ago

There's a parking lot near here. Sign says

WITCH PARKING ONLY

all others will be toad

Hey, Jim, got my email?

John

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