A simple dish mount

[Analoguesat]

After many months of a sagging 16E dish Ive finally got round to building a new mount for it. Total cost - 12 quid!

Equipment needed:

2 x fence posts (reused from the original installation)
2 x aerial brackets (6 quid each from B&Q) - these come complete with the bolts to screw them into place
1 x 4 foot 1.5" steel pole (salvaged from the scrap pile at work - cost nil!)


Edit - It is vertical although the bottom pic makes it look wonky.....

[Analoguesat]

A word of warning - 1m dishes are bloody heavy to install on your own. I managed on my own - just, but you really need 3 arms to lift the dish up onto the steel pole, hold it in place and tighten the securing bolts up tight enough so you can get it firm enough to hold it but loose enough to align it.......

I dont think Id want to try it up a ladder

[Yorks]

Yep, it's been quite windy today. Wouldn't fancy wrestling with a 1 meter dish much above ground level!

[Analoguesat]

Yes - and lets make a serious point here. Never, ever try to install ANY satellite dish in really windy weather, and take extreme care if you are working up a ladder - even a small dish has enough surface area to pull you off the ladder if a gust of wind catches it when you are off balance.

[Yorks]

Sound advice.

Don't be tempted unless it's flat calm. (Just think of the damage you could do to the dish - especially if you land on it).

[BlackHawk]

I fit a jubilee clip round the pole, the motor or dish then has something to rest upon whilst adjusting azimuth.
BH

[BGonaSTICK]

Yep, good tip. I use an exhaust clamp

[wod]

excellent analoguesat, easier than you concreting a pole for it

your neighbour in the background has a zone 1 sky dish up in scotland hope it dont rain much there

[Analoguesat]

After a lovely sunny day spent in the garden tinkering with the dishes heres the final result. The dish on the tyre will be properly mounted at some point - the L-shaped mount I was going to use from in the shed the doesnt fit the bloody mount!

The bungee cord from the green pole to the 19E dish on the tyre is just to stop it blowing over so often


Oh - a tip - if you happen to want to put brushwood fencing up like I have - do it BEFORE the pole is bolted to the aerial mount - its a hell of a game working it between the aerial mount & the pole..... Some bad words were uttered :roflmao:

[Analoguesat]

Left to right:

1m Orbital (bought new) - on 16E)
80cm on the tyre (salvage - on 19E)
80cm (salvage - on 13E)
80cm (salvage - on 5E, 7E, 9E or wherever is interesting round that bit of the arc)