Fixing a satellite dish
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Happy you didn't lose one screw !
Thanks for the video.
Other than the ones I have loose I’m glad too!
Why didn't you put the crack with the tape over it at the bottom? Water would be less likely to get in if the crack was pointing down. Also, the crack is causing a lack of compression on the plastic window that's actually making the seal, and again it would be better if the part not sealing well was at the bottom, not at the top
I did end up doing that. Good catch.
It's only temporary if it breaks. Where at in CO? Used to do offer my engineering to a few companies in the Tech Center.
Are the uplink feedhorns of those hazardous? Since a kid, I picked up this fear to dishes specially those that can hold people (or cars), and those that have a thick feedhorn/housing that beams into a first reflector, back at the dish, and up/away. Just the notion of being even behind of them scares the **** out of me. Not that I'd have access to one, anyway. "I'll just wait here". What can you say about uplinks/feedhorns/waveguides in general??
I eventually lost SOME (not all) of the fear to transmitting dishes and sector antennas BTW. I had to bc I have some on towers for networking. But those are based on Wi-Fi and have the same anemic power levels, just highly sensitive/tuned. If anything Wi-Fi, over 12-to-18m below, behind concrete, interferes with it.
The danger zone for uplink dishes is if you were to basically stand in front of the beam. Otherwise, you're safe on the ground next to it and behind it and even in front of it as long as you're not in the beam. Imagine the dish like the reflector of a flashlight.
Why not rent a bucket truck to do this kind of work. It sure beats standing on the antenna, and lowers the risk of falling or damaging the antenna surface.
Overkill.
Plus, I’m just not used to it. The antenna can easily handle me. I just don’t like heights, and have never stood in one before.
Sorry,but this video isjust marginally more interesting than watching paint dry ... 😞
But you did watch it… 😉
What would happen if you worked on it while it was transmitting? Aside from the link being broken. Any health effects?
You’d get heating effects and possibly cataracts. Otherwise there’s no ionizing effects as this is not ionizing radiation.
You would get 'That Warm Feeling Inside !'
Could you use epoxy putty to repair the crack, then dremel/sand/file to contour it to the original shape?
Also, if the screws are not stainless, one of those magnetic wristbands are handy to hold the screws.
I could also melt it down and reforge it.
@@TheBroadcastEngineer Tube of gasket maker to make a thin bead under the window, and another on top of the window, with a blob by the screws before you place the window and cover on, and then after tightening them a blob over the nuts, will hold till the dish is scrapped in a decade or three.
@SeanBZA or less…
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