The strong wind gusts that the latter days have overcome fully hundred kilometers per hours in several areas of Spain country have put to the overdraft, in some cases, awful facilities in roofs and building fronts of antennas of television, both for his terrestrial reception and for satellite.

During the latter days we could have read in several Internet forums to users who had lost the sign of the satellite to which the antenna was faced because this one had moved by the force of the wind. Equal it happens with the antennas of terrestrial television.

Cases have happened, even, that many of them are already not in the masts in those who were fastened, simply because they have gone out flying for the airs.

If we attend on the explanations of the fitters specialists, a well installed, attached standard satellite dish anchored with a support to the wall is very difficult that he could suffer the effects of the wind.

Another thing would be an antenna with a diameter that overcomes 1,20 ó 1,50 meters. With these dimensions, the subjection and installation needs that it is very sure, adapted by the special characteristics.

But undoubtedly, the most fragile facilities can be those of antennas placed in masts. The element of the mast has to be subject by one hundred per cent to a base, be in the top part of a roof, of a roof or of a wall.

In case of a vertical mast without direct subjection to a wall, there is very important the presence of tensile cables that guarantee the stability of the “palo to us ”. Also it is important that the mast is as rigid as possible so that no folding could suffer as a result from the force of the wind, anything that it was possible to have seen the latter days.


Example of a good installation of antennas. Mondigital.cat deference

(SatCesc, 27-01-09)