Where to stick it!

(the dish that is)

So, having spent literally minutes drawing the attached diagram, am after opinions if its possible to mount my dish on the side/corner of the house? or is next door gonna be in the way and its death defying ladder challenge for moi to put the mount up near the eves?!!! (going to be motorised, mainly astra/hotbird/etc but don't want to limit my options too much!)

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I could stick it on my exiting aerial pole, but I bet you its not vertical and would need adjustment! :-bash

Is it likely to clear next door's roof if I mount it higher but still below the roof line? (next door is about 3-4 brick courses lower, if you look at the biege racing stripes round the house, or the brick detail top right of the wall beneath the roof). Not quite with my offset angles yet! ;)

Would rather have it lower so its easier to mount and less obtrusive
Looking at it this morning think its ladder time for me!

Any suggestions?

Garden is around 8m long tops, and I don't think an offset dish would clear the house from this distance if I tried to pole it in the garden right?

OB

Looks OK - the only problem seems to be that brickwork detail on the corner (assuming you are going to mount between houses) as you may not have enough westerly travel.

L.

I would install the dish on the pole where your aerial is on the roof, or change the pole for a larger one if it's too small.

Then you get clear view of the whole arc.

Can't go above the roof/chimney line unfortunately.

Llew

Then it's going to have to be mounted on the rear corner facing the garden with longer T&K's by the look of it.


L.

Likvid said:

I would install the dish on the pole where your aerial is on the roof, or change the pole for a larger one if it's too small.

Then you get clear view of the whole arc.

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Hmm, I thought about that, problem is (a) I bet its not dead straight ( it wiggles in he wind as the aerials (tv/fm) tend to sail it a bit already and (c) I ain't got a ladder that long!

Hmm... I might get the dish, and have to try it between the houses visually to see if I can "see" a good arc or not.

OB

Lancelot said:

Then it's going to have to be mounted on the rear corner facing the garden with longer T&K's by the look of it.


L.

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Thanks Lancelot... problem with rear corner is that from what I can calculate unless its on the front "half" of the roofline, neighbous roof apex will block some of the arc.... front of house is south BTW....

Llew said:

Can't go above the roof/chimney line unfortunately.

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Hey Llew, is that becauase I said in my original post I wanted to avoid it, or because the planning regs say no?

The estate is littered with sky dishes all over the shop, next door and myself are in the minority not having them! I am not sure anyone would notice if I was careful... ;-)

Don't need a full arc, just looking for best comprimise

From what I can work out.. the 2m between the houses is enough with a standard dish (20 degree offset) to "miss" their roof right? (if it was mounted just next to the aerial pole towards the front of the house?)

OB

Assumed we were looking at the rear of the property (don't know why)
An 80cm mounted in the front corner would give you most of what you want though. Again long T&Ks to give the dish face enough clearance.


L.

Lancelot said:

Assumed we were looking at the rear of the property (don't know why)
An 80cm mounted in the front corner would give you most of what you want though. Again long T&Ks to give the dish face enough clearance.


L.

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Thanks L, sorry should have put that on my diagram!

Thats what I though... T&K for sure don't want it to move!, also going to get the moteck from what I have read so it has the HW limits on the motor to stop any embarrising dish/wall incedents...

OB

If you stick the wall mount at the complete corner (on the side facing your neighbour's wall), then you can get the dish to turn MORE THAN 180 degrees - Am I talking sense ???
I think you will get astra 19E till 30W - Try first by fixing only 2 'temporary' holes in the wall (You don't have to mount the dish very high - Just above the fence will do).

cfphoenix said:

If you stick the wall mount at the complete corner (on the side facing your neighbour's wall), then you can get the dish to turn MORE THAN 180 degrees - Am I talking sense ???
I think you will get astra 19E till 30W - Try first by fixing only 2 'temporary' holes in the wall (You don't have to mount the dish very high - Just above the fence will do).

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Thansk cfpheonix, I am not sure if I will get 28E though if I have it low down, but then again I am not sure this will matter! Up high should ge ta full arc from what others have said,

Just looking for the best comprimise. I understand what you mean by more than 180 as it would go "round the corner", should be able to point a long way west if I wanted to ;)

This is the front of the house though so sticking it on the corner is likely not the best excercise in neighbour relations!

ok, put it in that corner and a high pole sticking up, buy a 3-4 meter pole and put it on that, then you should cover the arc.

A 60mm pole would be good and some sturdy brackets to the wall.

Thanks everyone, I will order up some kit and let you know how I get on... either in the "members pictures" forum... or in the "help me fix it nothing works" section ;)

I would get a transparent dish 80cm and do something like this

rolfw said:

I would get a transparent dish 80cm and do something like this

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I bow to RolfW's super photoshop skills :-thumbup

That's basically what I was thinking, although I am still trying to decide (not orderded anything yet, want to do it in one go from one vendor) if transparent or mesh is best.

The gap between the houses is a real wind tunnel... and although I agree clear would be less intrusive the mesh might be the more practical. Was considering Mesh and some primer to "blend" it with the wall more.

Do you think an 80cm Clear on a Moteck (or equiv) would survive here RolfW?!

Paul.

Well it does on mine and the situation is pretty much identical, see the big thread in pictures of members' setups, mine is at the rear corner of the house though.

rolfw said:

Well it does on mine and the situation is pretty much identical, see the big thread in pictures of members' setups, mine is at the rear corner of the house though.

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Hey Rolf, you can't be *that* far from me, as my FM is towards CP and TV also towards Hannington ;)