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Originally Posted by crankbooster
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It's been very cold lately no reception on my KU system any suggestion?
You can actually see the ice dropping from the dish.
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? Knock the ice off. ? Usually, a little ice won't affect things too much, but if it gets thick then yes. But it's usually easy to knock it off those solid dishes. Now my mesh dish is harder, and I've bent the thing all up knocking ice off it over the years. But little dishes are easy.
With a
DTV dish, I've found that you can put the whole dish, lnbf and all, in a big garbage bag. This usually keeps ice and snow off the dish and lnbf. However with a 1M dish, this might be hard to do, ie it would take a pretty big bag.
The "cold" shouldn't hurt reception, provided that your LNBF isn't junk. Any decent LNBF should be stable in cold temperatures, however the
KUL1 I have here drifts badly when it gets cold. This makes it hard for it to find some narrow signals, but once it finds them it works fine. Wide (high SR) signals shouldn't be a problem. The other thing that cold might affect is your motor. Ie it may be that you lost reception because the motor froze up. This happens to me with my big dish, but I seldom move my little dish enough for this to be a problem. Yesterday, it took me about 20 minutes to move my big dish from G10 to AMC3. It kept freezing, and giving me
actuator errors, and I'd have to wait 5 minutes for the error to time out.