any 1.5 Meter dish install pics

[Cband55]

I just got this huge dish but my worry is to have a sturdy install so strong winds dont blow it away

 

[brentb636]

A 1.5 meter dish is not exactly huge. Is that a misprint ? I have a 1.2m dish that I could show you, motorized, but I don't think that's what you want.

 

[Anole]

I just got this huge dish but my worry is to have a sturdy install so strong winds dont blow it away

That's not a common size that comes up in conversation regularly.
Give us more info. Something like the Fortec Star 6' dish?
Commercial molded dish with ribs on the back side?
Do you want to motorize it or run it fixed?
C-band, or Ku-band?
How strong are your local winds?
Are you going to put it low on the ground, or try to mount it above your house?
The forum is full of pictures to solve most anything you can think of, but we need to know where to point ya.

 

[Cband55]

Easter winds in my area take out large billboards and the onle place to put it to get atlantic birds is in my roof, and winds are 70 mph
and its a Ku 1.5 Meters and for ku its huge its directv pizza dish on steroids

That's not a common size that comes up in conversation regularly.
Give us more info. Something like the Fortec Star 6' dish?
Commercial molded dish with ribs on the back side?
Do you want to motorize it or run it fixed?
C-band, or Ku-band?
How strong are your local winds?
Are you going to put it low on the ground, or try to mount it above your house?
The forum is full of pictures to solve most anything you can think of, but we need to know where to point ya.

 

[Pismire]

A picture would nice.

 

[Anole]

Quite honestly, I wouldn't put up a 1.5 meter dish in the US, for Ku.
. . . and it's only marginal for some C-band play . . .

Instead, I'd consider a Primestar (molded commercial) 1.0 meter dish, and find a place closer to the ground, or behind a wind-break.
And if it's motorized, probably Sadoun's 380 motor.
Though in that wind, you might be better off with one of the screw jacks and a polar mount.

.... also,I'd worry about that roof ....

 

[jsattv]

I agree with Anole, - keep it off the roof, especially if its bigger than 1 meter!! Last Saturday we had wind gusts up to 110 kilometers per hour (the second highest in the last 40 years), and I thought my 1 meter fortec Star dish was going to come off the roof. We had damage downtown to high rise appartments with windows blown out, and all kinds of construction debris blown off new buildings. Luckily I didn't have my new HH - 120 Stab Motor installed on my 1 meter dish. Going to try to bring it off the roof this spring.