telescopic pole mount..?

bringoutthegimp

This might sound like a crazy plan, but I'll put it out there anyway ;-)

About to move into apartment complex. Has shoddy small time analogue cable service. Has dish mount ban. On top floor of north facing complex, with an external terrace (the roof of the building overhangs the terrace slightly).

I want to get a dish up somehow. I think it's going to have to be poll mounted because of the roof overhang (and to possibly actually get around the 'mount' ban). I have identified a transparent dish that can be bought in the UK, so it hopefully won't be easy to spot.

My basic question comes from a crazy amendment to the plan.. whereby I could erect the dish only when it's needed, and at all other times it would be out of sight on the terrace. Can you get any kind of telescopic mounting poll that extends to about 10 feet in height or more? Or has anyone come across any other zany ideas for disguising dishes ?

Other ideas I had included hanging flowers off the back of the dish so it looks like a flower display bulb. ;-)

Thoughts?

mustang68

hmm, like a giant electric car aerial, I like the idea, can't imagine it being too stable in the wind.

watty

Why can't it sit low down on balcony? Sky view angle is about 20 degree upwards.

The telescopic idea is not practical, nor needed.

bringoutthegimp

watty wrote:

Why can't it sit low down on balcony? Sky view angle is about 20 degree upwards.

The telescopic idea is not practical, nor needed.

Hmm, will have to check out the angles when I get access to it.
But I think that the angle would probably have to be nearer 60 degrees
for the signal to get past the flat roof overhang.

Not sure if I explained it right in the first post, but the dish is going to be basically pointing back in the direction of the apartment/building, not outwards from it, as the terrace is on a north facing building front. Luckily we are top floor, so theoretically the possibility exists to erect a pole that will get above roof height, and point back over the roof.

Zaphod

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=224642

watty

Listen to the wisdom of the Zaphod.

yes it has to be on pole as you are on North side. What I said only applies on East or South of Apartment.