Wide awake in Surrey 'ere !
I dont think we ever saw any pictures of your 2.4m CM install after you purchased the dish?
Pictures were probably provided of it from the eBay listing or before/after collection but not installed after purchase?
Some of the top UK DX Men have said the IRTE stand is not up to the task of accepting a 2.4m CM dish. I agree with them.
I will give my opinion plain and simple, mounting a motorised 2.4m CM dish on that IRTE stand is risky at the very least.
Yes there are, and the large diameter of that pole is wider than the diameter of the pole on an IRTE tripod stand.
@gap30
Have a look at the picture attached below, it is from an overseas site for which I acted as an organisational consultant and provided remote access technical support.
The dish in the foreground is a Prodelin 2.4m dish mounted on a heavy duty steel pole secured to a concrete pad by chemical resin fixed threaded studs.
There will not be huge differences in the wind load and weight between a Prodelin 2.4m dish and a CM 2.4m dish.
For complete peace of mind, my personal recommendation would be to go for something similar with your setup, it also provides your 2.4m CM dish with decent height from the ground.
You know you can sort out the concrete pad so all you really need to emulate the setup in the picture is a pole.
If you can source a suitable diameter pole or if you have one already it should be easy enough to get a fabricator to weld a square or circular steel plate with some ribbed flanges to the bottom of the pole.
Drill suitable diameter holes in the plate welded to the pole and bolt it down onto the concrete pad.
Job done.
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