On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:32:34 +0000, Trevor Harley wrote:

You mean you live a fair way up Scotland and didn't think ahead so
can't whack the dish with a broom handle to remove snow or ice
deposits?

I read it up and that's apparently the last thing you should do. It
seems its alignment is very delicate and as much as breathing on it
puts it out of alignment so that the Sky engineer has to come out to
reset it, at enormous cost.

********. I installed my own dish it's not difficult, a cheap meter makes
alignment a doddle but the built in strength/quality meters of a DSAT
receiver and "shout back" can be used at a push. The metering in a Rx is
heavily slugged which is a PITA though.

May be the word "whack" was a bad choice, snow will fall off with a gentle
tap. 1/2 an inch of ice is a bit a bit harder to shift. It may also help that
my dish is only about 8' from the ground (deliberately) so is easy to reach
with a broom and I'm not at the top a double extension ladder to align it...

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Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.