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I did put a ground wire I'm not sure if you can see it because it blends in with the coax

Normally you want to avoid bending your coax cables past a certain minimum radius (depends on the cable); one example I found said 75 mm (or 3”) which would give you a minimum circle diameter of 1/2 foot. You can run into signal reliability issues bending the cable too sharply as the strain it...

Years ago, I fell from the second step on my ladder to the ground. No damage; just knocked the wind out of me and felt foolish. I had been distracted by the adjustments I was doing to the dish. From that point, I have never installed a dish which I can't reach by standing on the ground including...

The photos remind Me of my neighbors SuperDISH but longer. The neighbors one is metal while this one looks like it's plastic or fiberglass? Anyway cool obsolete post!

I save that for ground hornets. You can BET I use the "light them on fire" part of it also, with prejudice!

Alien ants!

What kind of ants would crawl up posts to get into a sat dish? The only kinds I see around here are strictly ground-dwellers, nesting either in anthills or rotting wood.

If you want something that is NOT TOXIC - since you will likely be working on your dishes again at some point - you can use this. All natural, safe around children, pets - and you. ;) https://www.saferbrand.com/safer-home-ant-roach-spider-killer-13-and-one-quarter-oz

This stuff works. Spray it and poof they are gone. Don’t wipe it off and they won’t come back. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Ortho-Home-Defense-Insect-Killer-for-Indoor-and-Perimeter-2-1-Gal-Controls-Ants-Roaches-Spiders-and-More-022081004/300569432

I have 2 dishes with the ant problem. 1 on a pole in the ground and another one on a telephone pole. Do you have any suggestions? The ants are literally climbing up the lnb arm tube and laying eggs/ nesting in it and a couple bit me today while checking out the nest

So back to what they started with. A dish 500 and twin lnb. The more things change the more they stay the same. :smug

It's been out. I'm shocked that in-house office doesn't have them

cyberham, I live on Cape Cod where everything is ridiculously expensive, but I still love it here. I believe with many tree trimmers/cutters around, I will be able to work a fair price for trimming, just gotta keep looking and read reviews. I'll also have to paint my solid dish sometime this...

That poor siding took a beating!

Internal Dish tech installed my pole mount today. Can finally get my house siding repaired now. Pole is seven foot, about 2.5 foot in the ground with foam. I still have to install conduit clamps on the side of house. Technician said he has heard that a new western arc setup is coming out. It...

What's making them carry them is that the shopping channels pay providers for carriage, either directly or commission on sales. i.e. on some channels like HSN and Shop LC you'll see different phone numbers or promo codes if you're watching on DIRECTV, Dish, cable, OTA or streaming. If the checks...

Never one to throw out potentially usable stuff. Telstar kind of hit a bone. If it makes sense at all. If you can get the gearbox and actuator tube running good. Seeing that a potentiometer is in fact a positive feedback device that would provide an ancient dish mover without memory storage a...

That was the only dish I knew of that used that fat pole. A 4" sched. 40 would have been well sufficient, especially since it didn't extend that far out of ground, but this was birdview...

Well I got the mount fixed, and the 10' dish is mounted on the pole. Talk about not being fun. Top of pole I concreted is ~6.5'-7' out off the ground, we lifted dish/mount onto the pole, talk about sweating bullets. But it's mounted now and I can fiddle with it as time allows. I hot wired the...

If you have visibility to 139W, point your dish toward it. I have my 4-foot offset dish receiving the ARCS mux from Alaska at a solid 6.7 dB now. This is a good transponder with five TV channels including PBS and sports broadcasts from ESPN, Fox, etc. as well as a number of radio channels. UFL...

Nothing under 8 feet is worth bothering with for C-band. Those times are passed now, as most need far more s/n ratio to be lockable.

I was given a terrible ground mount 120cm dish. I paired it with a Titanium C140 lnb and have only been successful locking onto 105w 3881H. I scan in and can watch the CH-1, CH-2 and CH-3 channels but no matter what, nothing else locks. Where the dish is currently sitting I can only see a...

Location of the dec. adjustment doesn't really matter. As long as there is one and you're able to get the polar angle (latiude angle) and face of the dish parrallel and pivots vertically level. For an example here is my locally fabricated polar mount. The twin elevation adjustment rods allows...

A side view of the mount as it would be put on the pole might show the current shape of it a little better. But to give you some brain food. If you intend on motorizing the mount with an actuator. A few things for thought. Declination for a fixed mount aimed at one sat. isn't a thing. Just that...