Wind dish direction?

[captainglassback]

1.2 Dish is currently getting battered by a southeasterly wind. Which sat should I point it at to reduce the impact on the face of it?

[highway1]

best to try move in other place .
or built a wall round it ;-) .
roof is best place i found .

[Prontopro]

For a south easterly wind I usually turn my dish to 30W.

[sleepy]

Best moved to side on to the wind direction, minimises the surface area being hit by the wind.;)

[mrbleu500]

Loosen the bolts and fit a weather vane :D

[john.dat]

The wind direction is going to change very frequently over the next 2-3 days due to this extremely low pressure passing through - here in the deep south lastnight the wind was coming from 150 deg, this morning 270 deg and right now 310 deg and the pressure fell like a brick, now 965mb (hpa) and sunny, 8.6c

[tti100]

The worst thing one can do is to ancer the disk to anything in heavy storms . this can develop a fault in the dish's curv, and reduce performance. This problem is greater and heavyly with bigger disks. Only a strong backing can save disks in all weather, just like you see on the great pro uplink SNG plants all over the world. I have two 2 meters, one without any back-strengthing and one backup with this. I have to change over to the latter these days as the first one is so battered beeing used since the mid eithies and on the norwegian west coast with many heavy storms ! I also have used it with an INFOSAT KU/C LNB , but receiving the C-band over Europe is no point anymore, as most channels now are also in the KU band. I look forward to have the backup 2 meter up soon, with a new KU-band LNB, and the same arc-motor setup and a better arc using my smartphone GPS settings from another 1.2 m disk that has a perfect arc developed when I was younger. The art is in the alligning !