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[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.

[rainman]

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.

if it's got alot of ice on it(which it looks like it does) could be pulling the dish off of the sat use a little hot water to melt the ice off of the dish and see if signal comes back.

[crankbooster]

Originally Posted by rainman

if it's got alot of ice on it(which it looks like it does) could be pulling the dish off of the sat use a little hot water to melt the ice off of the dish and see if signal comes back.

What is the effect of weather on KU reception so that I will know when to check allignment or just "blame it on the Rain"

[wejones]

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.

? 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.

[DougRuss]

This might not affect your Reception problem, but when it warms up some, you should "Wire Tie" that loose coax to the arm.

[be236]

Here's the conditions that gives me weak signal.

1. Snow on LNB head directed at dish... After I wipe off the snow, it works fine.

2. Heavy rain storm.. not sure what I can do about that but wait it out...

Cold/freezing temp doesnt affect my signal that I'm aware of.. heh... my dish can have ice like that on the dish and it works just fine. heh.

[crankbooster]

Originally Posted by DougRuss

This might not affect your Reception problem, but when it warms up some, you should "Wire Tie" that loose coax to the arm.

Yeah i will do all that when I am through with the installation. I still have not perfected the motor going through the arc.
And All my Globecast receiver does is to move the dish from any angle back to Zero Degrees.
I am still studing the receiver I don't know why the dish positioning aspect of the receiver is dasabled.

[boroda1]

Originally Posted by crankbooster

And All my Globecast receiver does is to move the dish from any angle back to Zero Degrees.
I am still studing the receiver I don't know why the dish positioning aspect of the receiver is dasabled.

Yes, my GC receiver is also limited same way.
Another limitation - no blind scan.
So I move dish with Ultra, then switch to Globecast, then scan the same frequencies, Ultra has found already. Now, after I connected Ultra to another room by using diplexers, I use GC very seldom, maybe will subscribe to something someday

[rainman]

Originally Posted by crankbooster

What is the effect of weather on KU reception so that I will know when to check allignment or just "blame it on the Rain"

a well aligned system will usually be knocked out by heavy rain on small dishes. anything that changes the angle of your dish or lnbf arm such as snow or ice will knock out signal. before attempting to realign clean off the snow or ice it usually brings it back in alignment.