Antenna De-Icing

The formation of ice and snowfall, especially on parabolic antennas, is a major cause in loss of signal transmittal and reception during winter months or at high altitude locations.

SHS have successfully developed a range of heating systems compatible with most major manufacturers antennas to prevent the build up of snow & ice, keeping the operation of the antennas trouble free and thus reduce interference and costly down time.

Heating systems can be constructed of either:

1) Specially shaped soft backed aluminium heating panels which are applied direct to the convex side of the antenna and controlled via an ice/snow sensing control unit.

2) GRP/Plastic backed segments, when fitted together form a hard backed heating system. The incorporated heating system can either be fitted direct to the convex side of the antenna or via the intermediate air gap. Both variations are controlled via the snow/ice control unit. Systems installed have ranged from diameters of 3.7m down to 0.5m with power loadings to suit.

Installation of the larger heating systems can take up to two days to complete down to a matter of hours for the smaller system.

The system is so flexible that it can be tailored to the customers requirements enabling
full heating, lower half heating, inner ring or outer ring heating only.