[wejones]

While outside today, looking at my dish, I noticed that when I installed my little 90CM dish, that I forgot to put the little plastic cap on top of the LNBF arm. It just occurred to me that it was pointing up, so that rain would go down into the lnbf arm. Once down there, when it freezes in winter, that could crack the lnbf arm. This happened to the ribs in my 7' dish, which is now warped out of shape, ie the ribs filled with water, and cracked in the winter.

Anyway, I got a piece of plastic tubing, took off the lnbf, and ran the tubing down the arm, and sucked out the water using a laboratory bulb. There wasn't as much in there as I thought, but there were a couple spoon fulls at least.

I also noticed that I put the water covers that go over the coax where it connects to the motor on backward, so they aren't sealing the coax at all. Dumb. I didn't fix that. I'll do that when I re-align the thing (not really needed, even after having the dish off today, but I can't wait to play with my new signal meter).

Anyway, if you live in cold latitudes, you might check to make sure you didn't forget the plastic cap like I did. I think I'm lucky I caught it before I had enough water to completely fill the arm at the bottom, because we've had a lot of freezing nights for the last couple months.