Mounting zone 1 dish directly to a pole?

ozumo

ozumo

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My Satellite Setup
Channel Master 90cm, 1.2m & 1.8m PF
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UK
Does a current zone 1 minidish have the option to be mounted directly to a pole without using the horizontal arm, in the same way a zone 2 is mounted?

The early minidish it is replacing has its original L-shape pole mount but is buried deep in ivy which the owner does not want touching. Using the arm and its offset pole cutout is not really an option (for now).
 
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I have only seen one Zone 2 design that comes with a pole mount (the one I linked to from eBay). All others have the same horizontal bracket, requiring a separate 1.5" U bolt for smaller masts, or a larger U bolt from other clamps / double bolt/nut and clamp arrangement that is available online.

Coincidentally my last installation reverted to the horizontal bar and U-bolt to get same Zone 2 onto a scaffold pole, just a small amount of drilling required to secure the feed support assembly onto the Zone bracketry.
 

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May just have to bodge the horizontal bar to minimise the offset. Clamping a second pole to the first to negate the offset is another option.
 
What diameter pole are you using ?
 
It will be the existing Sky 1.25" L-pole the current dish is mounted on. I have a few spare which can be used for the second option.
 
FWIW, I think I bought a "U"-shaped pole to off-set one of the fixed dishes a couple of years ago - will see if I can track the supplier tomorrow when the main PC is up and running again.
 
The original Sky mount is buried behind thick ivy, I won't be replacing it as that would mean hacking away the ivy which the owner insists I do not touch :)
 
Surely just adding a zone 2 to the existing pole will solve, although you haven't ruled this out yet. Although I may have not fully understand the question.
 
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The 'hole' in the ivy the dish sits is too small for a zone 2, also the existing cable may not reach the LNB. Extending the cable is possible but feeding a new one through the ivy is not. Spousal issues may also arise if the dish is noticeably larger.
 
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The 'hole' in the ivy the dish sits is too small for a zone 2, also the existing cable may not reach the LNB. Extending the cable is possible but feeding a new one through the ivy is not. Spousal issues may also arise if the dish is noticeably larger.
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Ivy grows VERY quickly, especially when it's been cut back - I really do know that all too well because I cut back the ivy on a fence right back to the thick main stems a few years ago, but within a couple of years it had grown back so much such that, now, I have to trim it back quite hard three or more times a year, and so any "holes" would probably disappear by the end of the coming Summer :D

PS: spraying a dish with non-metallic green paint - Red oxide primer and a Vauxhall "Green" colour in a "zigzag" pattern works well! - makes it "disappear quite quickly" :D
 
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I think he is afraid I'll cut through the woody stems(?) that feed the upper areas of the finely coiffured ivy.

Green & red zig zags? I'll try it on one of my own but painted dishes stick out more than a 'nothing to see here' plain dark grey Sky dish IMO :)
 
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The Zone 4 dish mounting arm can be repositioned so that the pole mount is almost central, and then the surplus removed if required.
 
jeallen01 said:
FWIW, I think I bought a "U"-shaped pole to off-set one of the fixed dishes a couple of years ago - will see if I can track the supplier tomorrow when the main PC is up and running again.
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FWIW, this is the type of ""U" shaped mount that I mentioned above - and it did prove useful for an 80cm dish that is mounted between two sets of fencing as it allowed the dish to stand further away from the main mounting point - might be useful to someone else if not in this particular case.


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Those wallmounts came as part of the Orbital 80 and 1m dishes, some resellers would take them out of the box to flog as an 'accessory',
 
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