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<blockquote data-quote="Captain Jack" data-source="post: 968517" data-attributes="member: 243342">Yes, getting there. Some of neighbours are wondering whether my tiny 90cm Fibo is the dish I wanted to put up.... er... no... double the size of that and you're talking. Let's hope they don't start moaning - not that they can, since it was all in the planning document.Received my 'angle iron' today, which wasn't actually what I ordered. Instead of 40 x 40 x 3mm, I received some 40 x 40 x 0.5mm! Needless to say, half a mm thickness made it extremely flimsy - thankfully, I already received the refund from the eBay seller.Have received the rest of the bits for conduit and passed the cable into the house. Still a bit more to do by the dish itself - maybe 20 mins more work until the cabling is complete.Also, I stuck an inclinometer on the pole and found it around half a degree out from being truly vertical. However, when I stuck the inclinometer on the other side of the pole, it was reading true. It looks like any tiny imperfections on the surface of the pole (even a grain of sand) will offset the reading, so it's difficult to judge. I know it's only half a degree but that's a lot when talking about a large dish with narrow beam-width.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Captain Jack, post: 968517, member: 243342"] Yes, getting there. Some of neighbours are wondering whether my tiny 90cm Fibo is the dish I wanted to put up.... er... no... double the size of that and you're talking. Let's hope they don't start moaning - not that they can, since it was all in the planning document. Received my 'angle iron' today, which wasn't actually what I ordered. Instead of 40 x 40 x 3mm, I received some 40 x 40 x 0.5mm! Needless to say, half a mm thickness made it extremely flimsy - thankfully, I already received the refund from the eBay seller. Have received the rest of the bits for conduit and passed the cable into the house. Still a bit more to do by the dish itself - maybe 20 mins more work until the cabling is complete. Also, I stuck an inclinometer on the pole and found it around half a degree out from being truly vertical. However, when I stuck the inclinometer on the other side of the pole, it was reading true. It looks like any tiny imperfections on the surface of the pole (even a grain of sand) will offset the reading, so it's difficult to judge. I know it's only half a degree but that's a lot when talking about a large dish with narrow beam-width. [/QUOTE]

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