Now where have I heard a similar comment about a few inches!A piece of scaffold pole with an extra few inches would be the solution.
A piece of scaffold pole with an extra few inches would be the solution.
On a slightly more "sober" note, it would be possible to extend the length of an existing pole using a suitable length of scaffolding pole and a coupler sleeve (available on ebay if you don't have one) to attach the extra length to the bottom of that existing pole.Now where have I heard a similar comment about a few inches!
TJjudging by the photos in previous posts I think the existing ole is long enough. Move it up so the pole sticks below of the bottom bracket by a few inches. Job Done!
Quite agree, but that means taking down the dish and existing pole - with a bit of luck, adding an extension piece below that will allow the extended "pole " to just be pushed up through the clamps on the brackets enough to get 30W properly and that will be a lot quicker and easier (and won't cause the same problem as you pointed out that I had with swivelling at the coupler!). Might however, mean that the lowest bracket has to be remounted up or down to miss the coupler.
correct!If you remount the lowest bracket higher up on the wall, it may give the needed height for the dish above the roof without buying a clamp.
A rough estimate using the sun position could also help (you can use this calculator: Satellite Look Angle Calculator ): as it is winter now, the sun is always beneath the clarke belt (seen from northern hemisphere), so if the sun is visible at your intended dish position at the calculated hour, there is no problem at all.
For exact measurement you should wait till the next sun outage, though.