Captain Jack
Retired human
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- Oct 21, 2006
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Hi,
Over the past few weeks, I have been house hunting with my partner and finally found one. A real pain, as most rental properties won't accept pets and we have two cats! This house is a decent price with decent Internet (only 500m from exchange) but, sadly, with a north facing garden Only for a few years until we get married and buy our place - which WILL have a south facing one....
But for now... I have permission from the landlord to erect a dish so now I am thinking of options. Looking at dishpointer on my phone, the houses were pretty much in the way at the back of the garden at my height level of 1.8m. Only the western satellites are clear from around 30W. The front of the house faces the road, so the dish has to go on the back somewhere.
There are a few choices - 1) do the over-the-gutter installation of my 1m Channel Master (1.2m too big for this I think) or 2) increase the height of the dish at the back of the garden until it clears the houses. Ideally, I would want two dishes, one for Ku and another 1.2m for C, especially if I can grab 49E.
Over the gutter should be fairly simple - a K-T-K bracket arrangement on a 3 inch pole should make it fairly stable. I've no idea how much over the gutter the dish has to look as it depends on roof-slope angle so will need to investigate further.
However, I am wondering how I can increase the dish height while making it as stable as possible. But is it fesible to increase the dish height to around 3 meters? What about martin-f's fence post concreted into the ground (can simply be cut off later) with a pole stub at the top? No idea how I would stabilise it though. Or a simply a long extended 3 inch pole (perhaps concreted into the ground again?) with guy wires?
I've attached a screenshot to let you know what I'll be dealing with. The yellow highlighting will be part of my property.
Cheers
CJ
Over the past few weeks, I have been house hunting with my partner and finally found one. A real pain, as most rental properties won't accept pets and we have two cats! This house is a decent price with decent Internet (only 500m from exchange) but, sadly, with a north facing garden Only for a few years until we get married and buy our place - which WILL have a south facing one....
But for now... I have permission from the landlord to erect a dish so now I am thinking of options. Looking at dishpointer on my phone, the houses were pretty much in the way at the back of the garden at my height level of 1.8m. Only the western satellites are clear from around 30W. The front of the house faces the road, so the dish has to go on the back somewhere.
There are a few choices - 1) do the over-the-gutter installation of my 1m Channel Master (1.2m too big for this I think) or 2) increase the height of the dish at the back of the garden until it clears the houses. Ideally, I would want two dishes, one for Ku and another 1.2m for C, especially if I can grab 49E.
Over the gutter should be fairly simple - a K-T-K bracket arrangement on a 3 inch pole should make it fairly stable. I've no idea how much over the gutter the dish has to look as it depends on roof-slope angle so will need to investigate further.
However, I am wondering how I can increase the dish height while making it as stable as possible. But is it fesible to increase the dish height to around 3 meters? What about martin-f's fence post concreted into the ground (can simply be cut off later) with a pole stub at the top? No idea how I would stabilise it though. Or a simply a long extended 3 inch pole (perhaps concreted into the ground again?) with guy wires?
I've attached a screenshot to let you know what I'll be dealing with. The yellow highlighting will be part of my property.
Cheers
CJ