This cold spell has cured me of my desire for snow for a while.

We have nearly half a metre of level snow, deeper in places, I have
been snowed in since Monday, I am running out of bird food, and now the
Sky dish is full ot snow.


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Trevor
Snowed in in Lundie, in the Sidlaw Hills, 10m NW of Dundee, elev. 185m
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On 26/01/2013 09:15, Trevor Harley wrote:
This cold spell has cured me of my desire for snow for a while.

We have nearly half a metre of level snow, deeper in places, I have been
snowed in since Monday, I am running out of bird food, and now the Sky
dish is full ot snow.



I know what you mean Trevor, the wind yesterday was blowing ice off
trees. I was being ice bombed after I had a tooth out. :-(

On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:15:11 +0000, Trevor Harley wrote:

... and now the Sky dish is full ot snow.

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?

50 cm of snow makes walking difficult but it has to get to 1 m of dry
powder to be real hardwork and not worth the effort. But perhaps you are not
a normal healthy, reasonably fit, person.

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

On 2013-01-26 10:59:50 +0000, "Dave Liquorice"
said:

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.

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Trevor
Pictureless in Lundie, in the Sidlaw Hills, 10m NW of Dundee, elev. 185m
Weather through www.trevorharley.com

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.

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
Weather through www.trevorharley.com

"Trevor Harley" wrote in message
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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 had that problem about a year ago, and it was caused by a bad connection
to the aerial. Sky replaced the connection with an HD cable and also
upgraded my box. I can now get most of what were terrestrial channels (BBC1,
BBC, ITV, CH 4) in HD for free. I have still not subscribed to Sky HD.
Hopefully they'll do the same for you.

Cheers, Alastair.

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:59:44 +0000, Trevor Harley wrote:

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 â ¦

Check the plug(s) haven't fallen out the back or the connectors pulled of the
cable . Another possibilty is water in the feeder. If this was a Sky install
then all are possible. If you call 'em out make sure they take their spurs
off...

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

On Saturday, January 26, 2013 9:15:11 AM UTC, Trevor Harley wrote:
This cold spell has cured me of my desire for snow for a while.



We have nearly half a metre of level snow, deeper in places, I have

been snowed in since Monday, I am running out of bird food, and now the

Sky dish is full ot snow.





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Trevor

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

Weather through www.trevorharley.com

You are now reduced to eating eat bird food in Dundee Trevor?? I know times are hard, North of the border, but I didn't know it was that bad. *))

We had heavy snow on one day for about an hour. It dropped about 4cm. It stopped me getting somewhere I needed to go, due to an accident on the road outside my house, as the surface was treacherous for a short time. The journey I made 90 minutes later, when the road cleared, was difficult to the A380, but the landscape was pretty. My missus made a snowman in the garden, but it has now all gone.

Like you, I've seen enough snow for this winter.

There must be a HUGE amount of water trapped in all this snow. I am
thankful I am near the top of a hill. If it really does melt quickly
tomorrow then it will be momentous.

On 2013-01-26 11:32:44 +0000, Dawlish said:
On Saturday, January 26, 2013 9:15:11 AM UTC, Trevor Harley wrote:
This cold spell has cured me of my desire for snow for a while.
Like you, I've seen enough snow for this winter.


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Trevor
Toasty in Lundie, in the Sidlaw Hills, 10m NW of Dundee, elev. 185m
Weather through www.trevorharley.com