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EidolonGG
10-01-07, 12:21 AM
Ok, so I live in Wisconsin and it's getting closer to Winter time and I don't want the extended blackouts I had last year due to snow accumulation on the dish and LNBs.

So, with that being said... does anyone have any particular luck with any certain dish covers? There are tons out there, and I don't know which one to get. Knowing my luck, I'll get one that screws up signal strength and hoses my system.

In case you think to ask: no, there is zero chance I am going outside when it is snowing with a broom to wipe the snow off manually. I thought about buying a super soaker at one point and filling it with windshield washing fluid, but that didn't pan out as I hoped. The point is, it's piss cold outside and I don't want to go out there just to get TV. And it's definitely from snow accumulation on the dish, because it would be out all night even after the snow storm passed, and in the morning when the sun would melt the snow off of the dish, it would be fine.

I have a DirecTV dish with the 5 LNBs (two sets of them).
Richard King
10-01-07, 08:14 AM
There are several dish heaters available that would probably be the best way to go. I used to have the same problem with my 10' c/ku dish when I lived in Minnesnowta. I had no heater for it and used to broom the snow off. The dish was way up in the air, so of course when the snow came off it landed on me which made for a rather comical scene. If you get a dish heater make sure that you get something that will keep the lnb's warm also. Snow can pile up on those and block part of the dish causing potential problems.
EidolonGG
10-01-07, 06:38 PM
There are several dish heaters available that would probably be the best way to go. I used to have the same problem with my 10' c/ku dish when I lived in Minnesnowta. I had no heater for it and used to broom the snow off. The dish was way up in the air, so of course when the snow came off it landed on me which made for a rather comical scene. If you get a dish heater make sure that you get something that will keep the lnb's warm also. Snow can pile up on those and block part of the dish causing potential problems.

I'm worried about how to power those heaters though... I guess I can try to feed the cable through the same area the sat in cables are going through...