Mobile Home Aerial/Satellite set up

kooga

I searched for a thread on this and found nothing and it being the summer I have decided to share my experience of getting a TV reception in a mobile home (any mistakes are my own as i am new to the mobile home experience and any input would be greatly appreciated.


Outdoor aerial for saorview picking up Crosshaven 46 and 56 V polarisation

Triax td 64 (recommended for coastal location) receiving Astra 28. Just have a single output lnb.

In the mobile home i have a saorview TV and a manhatten hds2 freesat box

here are a few pics

fat-tony

Nice and tidy, but you should put a cover on that exposed F-connector on the LNB, else it will let in rain and will corrode. Use self-amalgamating tape or apply a liberal amount of silicone grease.

Avns1s

Very good. Only thing I see (in addition to the previous poster) is that you could have fed your coax through the LNB arm on that particular dish instead of taping it to the bottom of it. Other than that, well done.

fat-tony

Actually @kooga - Mos M is right. I didn't look too closely at the second image, but on closer inspection, one clamp is not going to be sturdy enough to survive the winter winds. At the very least you are going to have issues with dish alignment. Is the bottom pole cemented into the ground?

jjf1974

Nice tidy job. You cant beat using good quality dishes and aerials in windy coastal areas.

kooga

Tks guys for the feedback, appreciate it. Fantastic advice which will benefit other boardies.

will attend to the f connector

will reroute the lnb

the pole is well dug in and cemented

Just back from being down there all weekend and good solid signal on both saorview and astra 28 plenty of gaa and commonwealth games to keep me going.

byte

Did posts disappear from this thread?

coylemj

byte wrote: »

Did posts disappear from this thread?

Yes, a first timer called Mos_M posted (it's mentioned in post #4 above), it was a perfectly good post so can't understand why it disappeared.

The Cush

coylemj wrote: »

Yes, a first timer called Mos_M posted (it's mentioned in post #4 above), it was a perfectly good post so can't understand why it disappeared.

I see Mos M was banned yesterday, wouldn't say he was a first timer, multi rereg would be my guess. Two regular posters here were banned back in March I think, lots of first time posters here since then, subsequently banned after a small number of posts.

St Senan

Here is an install that i done today at a mobile home. The pole 1.5inch thick galvanized barrel is buried about 1 ft in the ground. It is held to the bottom and top cross members of the van by by 2 pieces of Galvanized plate folded into z shape's and tech head screws that hold the whole setup to the mobile. Its held to the z plates by exhaust bolts or u bolts. Anywhere that i drilled a hole or sunk tech heads i seal with silicone.

I have seen a lot of so called mobile installs in my time and a lot of them are what i call "throwing a shape Jobs". Some of the examples i have seen are Sky dishes with the back elevation brackets been butchered to fit 1.5 inch or 2 inch poles. Down this way some Egit is going around fitting sky dishes around the coast and smothering them in agricultural Grease. The last picture is of a indoor distribution amp screwed to the bottom of a mobile home OUTSIDE. How can the guy who put that Amp outside the van call himself an installer is beyond me.

To be honest to the OP i would advise not to be using shelley clamps to hold poles together with the weather we get just get a 14ft-16ft pole and put your Aerial and Dish on that.

byte

WTF with the bad_job.jpg?!

So much wrong with that.

St Senan

I know Byte Apart from been a bad job its downright dangerous but that's what we are up against at the moment. Too many guys going around " Throwing Shapes at Jobs" calling themselves installers who know feck all about aerial rigging or dish installing.

Antenna

Navarre,
in your installation pictured you are using a diplexer to combine satellite and terrestrial.

The insertion loss of the two diplexers required is going to be a few dB and whilst it should not matter on satellite with a short cable run (as the LNB amplifies its output) it could however make all the difference between terrestrial/Saorview reception being OK or unstable in a marginal area.

Even leaving that aside, the costs of the two diplexers is more than just running a second cable.

The outdoor diplexer is also another point of possible eventual failure from extremes of weather

St Senan

The loss would be very small on terrestrial as its clear line of sight to Mt leinster. When you take off a wall plate inside a mobile home there is no room for a 2nd cable. I change the wall plate to a sat/ terrestrial plate. Again I have come across mobile homes with holes drilled in the floors or thru corner units to get cables in. The cost of the combiners is minimal in the long run if the job is tidy and the customer is happy plus the extra work i get and referral makes up for it.