Very tight Dish alignment

M5

Hi all

just wondering if you think i'll be able to get 28.2 aligned. Here is a screen cap from dishpointer.com

I have a 1.2 M dish with single LNB on a USALS motor mounted on a 400mm heavy duty mount. Will that give me enough clearance to receive it?

Im in a terraced house so have no side wall and i wont be able to get any sats from 19.2E or any of the Western sats if I mount at the front so thats not an option either. Garden walls are timber lattice so cant mount there.

Any alternative mounting suggestions?

JHet

If you're planning to put it on the roof of course you'll get signal

M5

JHet wrote: »

If you're planning to put it on the roof of course you'll get signal

roof not an option, should have specified that

tapfit2004

M5 wrote: »

Hi all

just wondering if you think i'll be able to get 28.2 aligned. Here is a screen cap from dishpointer.com

I have a 1.2 M dish with single LNB on a USALS motor mounted on a 400mm heavy duty mount. Will that give me enough clearance to receive it?

Im in a terraced house so have no side wall and i wont be able to get any sats from 19.2E or any of the Western sats if I mount at the front so thats not an option either. Garden walls are timber lattice so cant mount there.

Any alternative mounting suggestions?

i just had a quick look on google street view and your neighbors in the next block above you in the dishpointer picture have it mounted on the front but they are at a slightly better angle than your block. it looks very tight from the back wall of your house.

if it is possible to pick it up from the front of the house why not use an standard sky dish out there through a 2 way diseqc switch and use the motorised system for everything else from 19e to 45w. this would also mean that you would have no waiting for the motor to move when switching between other sats and 28e. you could also use a quad lnb on it to feed 3 other boxes or with a twin tuner box, record one channel and watch another on 28e.

the only other alternative is to bury a pole in concrete in the back garden far enough back so as the rest of your block doesn't obstruct your view of 28e from the motor.

M5

tapfit2004 wrote: »

i just had a quick look on google street view and your neighbors in the next block above you in the dishpointer picture have it mounted on the front but they are at a slightly better angle than your block. it looks very tight from the back wall of your house.

if it is possible to pick it up from the front of the house why not use an standard sky dish out there through a 2 way diseqc switch and use the motorised system for everything else from 19e to 45w. this would also mean that you would have no waiting for the motor to move when switching between other sats and 28e. you could also use a quad lnb on it to feed 3 other boxes or with a twin tuner box, record one channel and watch another on 28e.

the only other alternative is to bury a pole in concrete in the back garden far enough back so as the rest of your block doesn't obstruct your view of 28e from the motor.

Might just go with the two dish option. Just ordered a 750mm wall mount. if i put that high enough i should clear the roof.

my trig skills being dusted off tonight!

tapfit2004

M5 wrote: »

Might just go with the two dish option. Just ordered a 750mm wall mount. if i put that high enough i should clear the roof.

my trig skills being dusted off tonight!

750mm is a good bit out from the wall, the fixings will want to be good with a motor and a 1.2m dish on it.

i put a wall mount up years ago on a house i was living in and it was ropey enough so i got a bit of qualpex piping and screwed it into the underside of the mount and brought it back up at an angle to about a foot above the mount and it really steadied it up. it was up for about 3 years with a motor and 1m dish and never moved.

see the picture, its a bit rough but you can see the idea.

M5

tapfit2004 wrote: »

750mm is a good bit out from the wall, the fixings will want to be good with a motor and a 1.2m dish on it.

i put a wall mount up years ago on a house i was living in and it was ropey enough so i got a bit of qualpex piping and screwed it into the underside of the mount and brought it back up at an angle to about a foot above the mount and it really steadied it up. it was up for about 3 years with a motor and 1m dish and never moved.

see the picture, its a bit rough but you can see the idea.

Might need that alright, Will be using 15mm expanding bolts so the wall will come down before the dish does . will have to keep a block or two away from windows and the top of the wall too just in case!

will try with my 400mm first and then try the 750mm, afaik they have the same base

thanks for the replies!