Attach Sat Dish to Telegraph pole

bgengine

Guys,
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but does anyone know whats the story with attaching things to Telegraph poles ?

Can I mount my Sat dish to a telegrapgh pole ? - there will be no damage done to the pole - I'm just using it to hold the dish ?

thanks

corglass

it'll not do any (major) damage to either, might have very minimal fuzz if it's v. close to lines. but Eircom will probable remove it on their routine checks, it its on the main route corridor. It its a tail to your provate house then its probably ok, but be prepared to eircom to rip it down or something.....

mustang68

I'd say that that would be very dangerous and illegal!!! :eek:

Don't do it, the pole maybe carrying electricity, and you'll have a nice direct connection to the pole when something goes wrong, when you receiver and house catch fire!
Its not your pole, you don't want to be faced with a nice summons when the ESB or Telephone man can't get up the pole because someone put their satellite dish there.
As the pole maybe carrying HV or signal cables near your dish you lnb may not work at all or for long.

bgengine

Thanks Guys,
It's an Eircom pole - so no High Voltages. It's not on a main route pole but on the last pole of a tail to my house ( out in the country) . It's back approx 150m from the main road but can been seen from the road ... I know it won't do any damage so am just wondering how 'sticky' eircom would be about it ?

thanks

conax

I would advise not mounting your dish on the Eircom pole, as this may become a safety issue for a eircom engineer if any line repair work has to be carried out. I assume that you need to use the pole to get some height for the dish, this would also be a safety concern for you.
if you dont need height, have a rethink about placement, in the long run you will be better off.

lucernarian

Knowing eircom, the telephone pole mightn't be the most secure but there's been decent investment over the last 2 years. If it's just your line and there's no pairgains (which can operate at 120V) then there's no real hazard.

I've seen one being used to hold a grid aerial, but a satellite dish is much more in the way. Eircom simply have to cut the cable and bin the dish if a linesman wants to. If they don't have a cherrypicker/van hybrid then it would be a right nuisance.

Ulsterman 1690

(double post)

Ulsterman 1690

Reminds me of a certain Dublin pirate radio station that used to support their aerial on a disused telegraph pole many years ago. Needless to say the P&T* took a dim view of this and had the pole removed.

Im pretty sure using the phone company property in this manner would be considered an act of trespass. If the pole were ever to fall over and damage something/someone you could be pretty sure that the phone company would try and pin the liability on you fro increacing the windloading on the pole.

I have seen houses down south using surplus poles (presumably boought from the phone or electricity company) to mount TV aerials (and even washing lines) on. Im not sure how/where one would go about buying such a thing though.

* Back then spectrum enforcment (such as it was) was handled bt the same body that ran the telephone network (such as it was)

DMC

Goes to show what I was thinking when I first read this. I though that the OP had his own telegraph pole, so many people do plant an old ESB or telegraph pole in the ground for TV aerials etc.

But, as he has clarified, it is on a working eircom pole, and that won't do.