Reid and I spent this weekend installing a heater on our new uplink dish.  We suffered several outages last winter when the dish filled with snow…

The process involves measuring and applying heat tape, gluing insulation pads on top of the heat tape, caulking around the insulation pads and then installing the electrical wiring.  It was not a terribly difficult process, just extremely tedious.

There are eight sections to the dish.  We didn’t quite get the heat tape pattern right on the first two sections but it went pretty smoothly after that.

Once we had the heat tape applied we glued the insulation pads to the dish and started the process of electrical wiring.

Now we need to finish sealing and wiring…Once that process is complete we should be all set for the wonderful Wyoming winter weather!