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TJExcalibur

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My 90cm Master Focus Fibo dish is to high up for me to access now old age is creeping in. Had orders not to climb up there again so I have decided to remove it and use my 60cm dish which is more accessible. The Fibo is not required because only the main satellites available in the new position. Never mind, move on.
 
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TJExcalibur said:
My 90cm Master Focus Fibo dish is to high up for me to access now old age is creeping in. Had orders not to climb up there again so I have decided to remove it and use my 60cm dish which is more accessible. The Fibo is not required because only the main satellites available in the new position. Never mind, move on.
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Same kind of thing here. My knees are too untrustworthy now to climb up to the Gibby to do anything more than check and lubricate the moving parts (dish, not the knees :-ohmy )
 
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I tried to take the same issue into account some years ago by getting all the dishes onto ground-mounts - and they all now are, except for the Gibby which needs a pair of low steps, and the TD110 which had to be a bit higher to see over the garage and needs a stepladder do anything much more than check the motor & LNB connections.

OTOH, getting to the Zone 2 Sky dish on the conservatory roof needs an extended stepladder and then crawling a metre or so across that roof, but if I ask the neighbours if I can access it from their side then I just need the extended stepladder.
 
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Llew said:
Same kind of thing here. My knees are too untrustworthy now to climb up to the Gibby to do anything more than check and lubricate the moving parts (dish, not the knees :-ohmy )
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I trust you are using cod liver oil for the knees as well:)
 
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jeallen01 said:
OTOH, getting to the Zone 2 Sky dish on the conservatory roof needs an extended stepladder and then crawling a metre or so across that roof, but if I ask the neighbours if I can access it from their side then I just need the extended stepladder.
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Can move it to a better position next time I am in the area.

(I didn't fit it btw)
 
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