Nobody Rains On My Football Parade!
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Add a jaunty LEGO fence to block the wind and it’ll get excellent reception almost half the time. – Ms. Fix-It
Favorite Comment: Fixer Terence Sibley says, “The authorities are still looking for Miss Poppins’ body…….”
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today’s forecast calls for some light precipitation in the afternoon, with a chance of satelite signals.
Kids, turn off TV now, it’s raining!
only in America.. only in America…
what makes you think that is in America?
More like South America.
It looks kind of like Kosovo or FYROM. I have been to bothe of these countries and that is what the houses look like and if you look close you can see that the dish says T-Mobile.
BTW – Your spelling of the word Genious is pure genius!
(p.s. I’m being sarcastic. I doubt your kind of genius can tell.)
Isn’t that attachment only included in the premium channel package?
just the weather channel
“Dish Network Technical Support: How may I help you?”
“Hi, I paid extra for the umbrella coverage, but it seems to be interfering with my signal.”
could a sat tech respond here? Doesn’t this BLOCK the signal?
Yes, it would. When rains interferes with the signal, it’s the rain in the atmosphere, not between the dish and collector. So, yeah, this would only make the signal worse even on clear days.
I’m hoping they’re not protecting against the rain signal degradation but the effect of the rain/snow on the electronics (if the casing’s broken). The edge of the roof being right above, there may be more water on the dish than in the air. The umbrella itself is transparent to the microwaves.
They’re also protecting against bald eagles perching on it and trashing reception during the game.
While it’s under the roof and hopefully lightning-safe, I’m waiting to see the “after the wind blows” picture on failblog.
Bald eagles or the NBC peacock.
Jokes on them, rain interference is cause by rain between the dish & the satellite, not the dish & the LNB.
The metal frame of umbrella would be cause for some interference.
The umbrella would get wet & create a water screen that would also be cause for some interference.
In a breeze the umbrella would move a lot, causing its metal frame to cause even more interference.
First decent breeze & the umbrella will just turn inside out or sideways.
My satellite connection stops working right if there is some snow that has fallen, but not always — of course. Is small dish, more towards the horizontal than this one.
I have thought about trying to block precipitation from the dish, is solid material so doesn’t drain well.
am I the only one who sees painful lightning problems to this poor dish?
50% of the time, it works all the time!
It is important to remember every so often when you attempt to solve a problem, why not with a little flair? Take a look at this picture, for example. That is one good-looking lightning rod!
This looks like an anti-snow/ice device, they probably would take it down once it stops snowing. My neighbors spent half-an-hour chipping ice off their satellite dish after the big snowstorms at the beginning of February. So, at least it makes a little sense if that is their thinking.
Judging from the condition of the roofs in this neighborhood, keeping the Low Noise Block converter on their satellite dish protected from rain, snow, and ice should be the LEAST of their worries!
That umbrella would not protect against ice. It would collapse or fall off altogether.
So what is the umbrella up?
Good question, but I think you the verb.
On close inspection it looks like it might be taped.
That’s just asking for a lightning strike.
Another fine product from the Umbrella Corporation.
If they had an umbrella insurance policy, they wouldn’t need it.
They can save their money for a rainy day.
Just look at the roof in the other side. It really looks like crap. I bet the guy who bought the dish thought “Hey, why should I repair my roof when I can get super expensive Sattelite TV from T-Com” We should post this on FAILBLOG
Well, that’s how Gypsies and white trash think (judging from the uploader’s name, the picture is from Hungary, so it’s gotta be one or the other). So yeah, without the umbrella, it would still be priorities fail.
Firstly, the wonky roof and the dish are not on the same building, and therefore there’s no reason to believe they belong to the same person. Secondly, who says the roof is theirs to fix? Maybe they rent. Thirdly, since Tyberius suggests this service is costing them a maximum of $20 a month, it seems quite reasonable to me that they could afford subscription television but not roof repairs, since the latter seem likely to cost thousands of dollars, and saving up $20 a month would take half a decade to reach $1000.
Seriously, sometimes really frivolous-looking things like subscription television actually work out better for the very-low-income, because the things the middle-class think are necessary are actually so expensive they’re pie-in-the-sky to the poor, while frivolous things are affordable and improve their lives measurably here-and-now.
One classic example is low-income urban Americans with good cars and no health insurance. Sure, it LOOKS like their priorities are wonky, but in actual fact, they wouldn’t be able to afford health insurance that’s worth the paper it’s written on even if they didn’t have a car, but at least this way they have a decent car, even if richer folks do disapprove.
/soapbox
Nice to hear from another side. I have a decent car, virtually no job, and cannot afford health insurance. I wish I had back the money I spent after I was laid off, extending the coverage the job had provided.
And I still think something like this might improve my satellite link during snow.
Now we have the proof that Dish Network is an umbrella company!
Sorry luckinflux! Should have read ALL previous posts!
The leading cause of static is not ‘the signal getting wet’ but ‘homeowners getting ideas.’
This umbrella was installed in an attempt to keep water from leaking through the roof next door. Why is everyine concentrating on the satellite dish?
I don’t think that’s for TV or for satellite reception. At that angle it would have to be very far north or very far south.
That, and the fact that it’s got the T-Mobile logo on it, makes me think it has something to do with wireless data, and it’s pointed at a terrestrial transmitter.
It is actually a T-Home logo (linky), which is Telekom’s brand name for TV services (satellite, IPTV or cable, no terrestrial transmitter, at least not in Hungary). The good homeowners pay a monthly fee equivalent of 5 to 20 dollars for their 17 to 60ish channels.
I’m glad someone finally figured out how to shield an umbrella from strong winds.
250 channels yet the only thing that’s on is Mary Poppins.
Then when the wind knocks the umbrella off, the only thing that’s going to be on is “Gone With The Wind.”
fail some one dosn’t know a satilite recever works
A ‘satilite recever’ doesn’t work too often.
Beat THAT, Comcast!!!
The authorities are still looking for Miss Poppins’ body…….
It’s signal in the rain
Just a signal in the rain
The satellite’s revealin’
I’m happy again
I’m laughing at clouds
So dark up above
The sun will soon defrost
And I’m ready for “Lost”
Let others make their case
To that tech support place
Come on with the rain
I’ve a smile on my face
I’m watching my T-home
Without a need to roam
And a happy refrain
Just signal,
Signal in the rain
I love to watch Gene Kelly dance this!
How? Mailman just wrote that, and Gene Kelly has been dead for about fourteen years.
“The only thing I can get on the damned TV is the Weather Channel!”
Haha
I’m even more impressed by the brickwork. Corner bricks cut with the porous edge facing out, about 1 inch of bonding between front wall and sidewall, no pointing …
Whoever made this house learned his bricklaying skills by the tried and tested “how hard could it be?” school. (And the “tested” part will be when he’s watching WWF on his satellite TV, tries a few moves with his live-in cousins, and the whole damned house collapses.)
This broken umbrella comes directly from “UnLondon”. If you follow it, you will find the entry. But be aware of the giraffes – They are deadly creatures! And don’t mess with the smog!
By the looks of it, Miss Poppins bounced off the roof behind it!
wtf
Judging by the architecture- the Balkans.
Reminds me of the time I went to a wedding of two TV aerials…. The service was rubbish…. but the reception was terrific!!