It's still showing as "No signal", and all the snow has gone from the
dish now. So I assume the weight of snow broke something. Or it really
did knock it out of alignment …


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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Trevor
Pictureless in Lundie, in the Sidlaw Hills, 10m NW of Dundee, elev. 185m
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