Just been having a conversation with a friend by email.

I was telling him how, due to the snow earlier in the week, I lost all
satellite TV because the snow had completely covered the dish and LNB.

His reply was, Quote "That can't happen to me, because my LNB has got a
heater in it to prevent such things happening" endquote.

He has a Sky dish..... He's probably been listening to the dross from Rupert
& James

Jim G

Is he speaking of the crystal Oven to keep the oscillator stable?

To be honest, it should not be that hard to stop this occurring. We used to
build in heaters to radar systems to help in this regard.
Brian

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Just been having a conversation with a friend by email.

I was telling him how, due to the snow earlier in the week, I lost all
satellite TV because the snow had completely covered the dish and LNB.

His reply was, Quote "That can't happen to me, because my LNB has got a
heater in it to prevent such things happening" endquote.

He has a Sky dish..... He's probably been listening to the dross from
Rupert & James

Jim G

Brian Gaff wrote:

Is he speaking of the crystal Oven to keep the oscillator stable?

Nope, there is no xtal oven with satellite receiving systems.

The LNB is in fact just a preamp/down converter that out the front of the dish.

To be honest, it should not be that hard to stop this occurring. We used to build in heaters to radar systems to help
in this regard.

Just been having a conversation with a friend by email.

I was telling him how, due to the snow earlier in the week, I lost all satellite TV because the snow had completely
covered the dish and LNB.

His reply was, Quote "That can't happen to me, because my LNB has got a heater in it to prevent such things
happening" endquote.

He has a Sky dish..... He's probably been listening to the dross from Rupert & James

On 07/04/2012 08:12, Brian Gaff wrote:
Is he speaking of the crystal Oven to keep the oscillator stable?

There's a setting on our analogue box to enable the heater in the LNB
when the box is off. I don't actually know whether there is a heater.

There certainly aren't many channels left

Andy

On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 23:26:15 +0100, the_constructor wrote:

His reply was, Quote "That can't happen to me, because my LNB has got a
heater in it to prevent such things happening" endquote.

He has a Sky dish...

The times that we have lost DSAT here due to snow/ice it has been due
to the snow/ice on the face of the dish rather than the front of the
LNB. We have a standard zone 1 minidish, the dish is not heated...

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