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Old 16-08-2008   #9
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My System: Sky UK. FTA analogue & digital satellite from 5 fixed dishes (5E/7E/9E/13E/16E /19E/23E/28E) Pace MSS100, Echostar IP3000VA, Technomate TM-1000D, Dreambox 7020S


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Seen it now! I was on my summer holiday when the original post was made

The tyre mounted dish is my 19E dish and has lived on a tyre for about 5 years, although its in a pretty sheltered location. Even so it does blow over occasionally - I saw it do a complete forward flip once! There are a couple of wooden laths jammed up against the back of it to keep it upright.

DONT even think about putting it on top of a garage on a tyre - it WILL blow off and either do some serious damage, or hurt someone - and you DONT want an insurance claim from someone who has been hit in the face by a loose dish.

If the garage roof is the only location for it get a proper patio mount and weight it down with slabs, sandbags, buckets of concrete etc.

All my cables currently run under the window frames - we had new windows put in a few months ago so I took the opportunity to run plenty of extra coax cables under the window frame before the guys sealed everything up! (The builders though I was mad with all the coax cables!)

The flat coax window frame connectors will work fine though. Maplins sell them for a couple of pounds each.
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