Ariza dish for Hispasat tightly fit on the porch

[polgyver]

My experimental long focal length dish, shown on my avatar, finally has to retire, as I need its place for a new bigger shed (not built yet). I had to try hard to find a location for a regular dish which could "see" Hispasat. More description on included 7 pictures.

 

[Tron]

Hispasat is definitely worth the fixed dish. Good luck!

 

[primestar31]

You can't mount the dish on top of the shed?

 

[Anole]

You can't mount the dish on top of the shed?

. . . Or the roof of your porch.?
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You seem to have gone to a lot of trouble to avoid the obvious.
Kudos for the effort, but sometimes the simple solution is just fine.
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...and it looks like you are trying to use CAT5, again...?
No excuse in the world for that.
?

 

[Corrado]

During the summer I have to be creative to get 30W here because of the openings in the trees to the east. I have tested out several dishes when I had the experimental test setup and found on a clear weather day I could even get away with a small Dish500 converted with a universal LNBF. I first pointed with on old Primestar dish and had a signal immediately.

 

[polgyver]

Hispasat is definitely worth the fixed dish. Good luck!

Thanks, Tron. It works now, with even better quality than my double reflection system. Had I figured out this "tunnel" from my porch to Hispasat earlier, probably I wouldn't have made this double system - but it was fun to build it.

 

[polgyver]

You can't mount the dish on top of the shed?

Well, there is no shed now (the old is dismantled, and new one waits for base: gravel and 25 patio stones). Another thing, I personally dislike installing dishes on roofs, running cables from roof and under soil or under patio stones, which are around my house.

 

[polgyver]

. . . Or the roof of your porch.?
.
You seem to have gone to a lot of trouble to avoid the obvious.
Kudos for the effort, but sometimes the simple solution is just fine.
.
...and it looks like you are trying to use CAT5, again...?
No excuse in the world for that.
?

Like I said to Primestar, I do not like dishes on roofs. Too prominent, dangerous to install and difficult to service. Not solid, unless one finds the joists, all the messing with silicon... running the cable over the gutter... I prefer to investigate, measure, observe heavenly bodies - squeeze the last inch of "tunnel" to Hispasat - instead of hard work. Other members, like Chapelrun and Dan Rose also like to conceal dishes.
I have run traditional RG6 (78' of it) on South and West wall of my house, using - instead of plastic clips, anchors and drilling - just a glue gun, bridging with hot plastic of upper and lower bricks, where the RG6 was in the gap, on the mortar.
These cables you noticed, are not CAT5, they are just ordinary 4 conductor 22 AWG telefone cables. I described that they worked in a contest post run by pwrsurge, page 9, post # 52. Interesting, Quality was in the range of 40, but the Strength was only - 1 % ! And it worked, even with obscuring 40 % of the dish with metalized styrofoam. These tel. cables were also attached to the brick wall with glue gun, now it is very easy to remove them without any trace, no holes to fill. Cheers, polgyver

 

[jorgek]

During the summer I have to be creative to get 30W here because of the openings in the trees to the east. I have tested out several dishes when I had the experimental test setup and found on a clear weather day I could even get away with a small Dish500 converted with a universal LNBF. I first pointed with on old Primestar dish and had a signal immediately.

I don't know what a Dish 500 is but I'm successfully watching 30W with a 25" offset dish and an Avenger PLL LNB. However we did have a heavy rainstorm yesterday and 30W disappeared until the storm passed.

 

[Mr Tony]

when I had the house I had to mount the dish on the mast of the tv aerial to get Hispasat (9 degree elevation here in MN) which was on the roof

 

[SatPhreak]

jorgek, a dish 500 dish is 20"X22".

 

[jorgek]

jorgek, a dish 500 dish is 20"X22".

And I assumed I was the odd ball using a 25" offset for FTA. I used to watch Galaxy 10R with the 25" and a lot of the FTA "experts" refused to believe me.
I had the 25" parked on 97W for a while. I have to add that the Avenger PLL LNB worked extremely well with the 25". It pulled in a couple extra TPs and made the marginal TPs usable.

 

[Tron]

Undersized dishes will receive many channels, however there is no substitute for a proper dish when there are storm clouds or adjacent duplicate transponders.

 

[jorgek]

Undersized dishes will receive many channels, however there is no substitute for a proper dish when there are storm clouds or adjacent duplicate transponders.

I agree, but thats the fun of this hobby, the challenges. For perfect reception, I go to cable (not always perfect) or OTA.

 

[Conky]

well done polgyver. drilling holes in your roof should always be a last resort.

 

[polgyver]

when I had the house I had to mount the dish on the mast of the tv aerial to get Hispasat (9 degree elevation here in MN) which was on the roof

Very practical, to find secondary usage for mast, which was already there. At 9 degree, roof height took care of possible obstacles (trees).Other thing, younger guys are much safer on the roof, than older folks...
There is still one more advantage to have the dish on a porch: protection from rain during some experiments or testing LNB's.
Was the bottom edge of your dish very close to the aerial's mast? Any pictures?
?Cheers, polgyver