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Big Dish blown over in storms - Canaries
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<blockquote data-quote="DishDick" data-source="post: 675694" data-attributes="member: 216974"><p>Hi ralph,</p><p></p><p>I used the blocks to form the shape then filled in with concrete. Half the dish was on when it went. Luckily dish is ok. I am unable to cut pole down as dish just clears base as it is.</p><p></p><p>I have a question for the installers on this site, I had an idea today. I have a small one storey room on the side of the house with a slopping roof. My neighbours house is close to mine (two storey) with a chimney. I took up an 80cm dish onto my slopping roof and got a good signal (balancing it on roof) on Sky News (vert) and the old Five (horizontal) about 64% strenght as opossed to my 1.2m with clear line of sight getting about 84%. My question is, is there a good test or measurement to do so I can be sure that if I put the big dish there it will work well. It would be alot of work to put it up just to find the performance is not good (because of line of sight issues). It would be nice if it could go there as it would be shielded on three sides and there would be plenty of support for the very large base I could build.</p><p></p><p></p><p>powel000 look forward to your pics, thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DishDick, post: 675694, member: 216974"] Hi ralph, I used the blocks to form the shape then filled in with concrete. Half the dish was on when it went. Luckily dish is ok. I am unable to cut pole down as dish just clears base as it is. I have a question for the installers on this site, I had an idea today. I have a small one storey room on the side of the house with a slopping roof. My neighbours house is close to mine (two storey) with a chimney. I took up an 80cm dish onto my slopping roof and got a good signal (balancing it on roof) on Sky News (vert) and the old Five (horizontal) about 64% strenght as opossed to my 1.2m with clear line of sight getting about 84%. My question is, is there a good test or measurement to do so I can be sure that if I put the big dish there it will work well. It would be alot of work to put it up just to find the performance is not good (because of line of sight issues). It would be nice if it could go there as it would be shielded on three sides and there would be plenty of support for the very large base I could build. powel000 look forward to your pics, thanks. [/QUOTE]
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