Listen Up Batten down the hatches 2019/2020/2021

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TJExcalibur

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Put the dish side on and hope. I was ill when we had strong gusts about 6 months ago. The force twisted the dish on the motor or pole despite being clamped very tight. I have had to alter the longitude from 1.88 west to 0.330 west to get some reasonable tracking. ope to be able to climb up in the summer and sort it all and put some split pins through the brackets to prevent them slipping.
 

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As the 55mph wind will be coming from the South West at my location so I will park the motorised dish at 52 east to cut down the wind resistance.
 

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I've just completely moved my 90cm motorised from the roof to below a bedroom window as it was completely exposed. I had planned to do it in the summer but the reports of 55-60mph winds over here prompted me to get on the ladder this morning. Not perfectly tracking the arc in it's new location but it'll do for now.

Is it relatively wise to park the dish on 1W when a storm is brewing, as I've heard someone mention before?
 

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Its blowing a full on gale here already. The 22W dish is moving in the gusts as the picture keeps breaking up.
 

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Mine are on poles between the garages (see my Xmas day post!) and I'm hoping that they will be OK without any new precautions - OTOH, there's quite a lot of "loose" stuff in the garden that needs to go in the garage.
 

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Just filled up a sack with plastic flower pots & anything that the wind will shift out of my garden :)
 

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Just filled up a sack with plastic flower pots & anything that the wind will shift out of my garden :)

Had to read that several times ........ I prefer to understand you've found a cunning way of getting rid of unwanted stuff ...... :unsure
 

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I've taken down the Viasat Ka band dish that was sited above the parapet, the remainder will have to cope with tomorrow's onslaught.

The sky had also gone decidedly/ominously grey while I was on the roof, a stark contrast to this afternoon.
 

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I've just completely moved my 90cm motorised from the roof to below a bedroom window as it was completely exposed. I had planned to do it in the summer but the reports of 55-60mph winds over here prompted me to get on the ladder this morning. Not perfectly tracking the arc in it's new location but it'll do for now.

Is it relatively wise to park the dish on 1W when a storm is brewing, as I've heard someone mention before?
The best spot on a polarmount system is a position where the three sets of bearings form an equilateral triangle, easing the chance of a gust overstressing one of them. It should be close to the true south but not always. This will not however guarantee zero damage.

Ideally (and if you can achieve it before the storm hits), release the elevation locking nuts and turn the dish to face near vertical, so the winds that will come in on a horizontal basis from multiple directions over the course of tomorrow, can run under/over the smallest of dish profiles.

Once again, no guarantee of survival.
 

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Im glad I dropped my dishes down the scaffold poles as far as possible when I rebuilt the system a year or so back. Everything seems to be pointing in more or less the correct directions atm.
 

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My fully exposed Gibby 1.2 will have to weather it. I modded the SMW PM with two elevation fixing bolts both sides of the PM to stop the dish twisting in the wind.
The original bolt was on one side only, and bent in strong winds a couple of years ago such that the dish went way past the crucial PM/actuator angle and dumped itself to the east.
It's behaved itself since, but with storm Ciara imminent, I've roped the dish for the period.
 

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The main Plymouth link seems to work but then that from the Underwater Teaching Observatory is not.
 

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All I've done is place the wheeliebins behind the shed laid down on their fronts with the tops pressed up against the yard wall, keeps the lids shut and stops them being blown over & spreading rubbish & recycling stuff everywhere, not that it'd matter cos other people's bins are already toppling & spilling everywhere, cos, y'know, they don't seem to give a monkeys... :-doh
 

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Still very quiet here in W.London - the "calm before the storm":oops:

How's it with "you" ATM?

PS: Storm Ciara seems to be called Storm Sabine in Germany from what I read a while ago.

PPS: staying indoors tomorrow except when I need to go across the road to fix a mate's lighting with new LED tubes (he's not at all well - just had a kidney transplant) - but that will give me a chance to fix other stuff here, like rebuilding 2 old and failed, but almost identical ASUS netbooks into 1 (one had a failed m/b and the other has a very wonky hinge => newer m/b into older chassis, or at least I hope!).

PPPS a few minutes later: it's "coming" now as we can hear the wind "getting up" :(
 
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Rainy with gusty winds here mostly...
 

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It was up to force 9 here most of the afternoon but almost flat calm now before Ciara hits us in the early hours, usually coincides with the high tide.
Storm force 10 on the shipping forecast for our area but that's normal, anything higher then I start to get worried, even when you think things are safe they're not.IMAG0873.jpg
 
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