Well, back on track with the big dish relocation.
Previously I was pretty much mum on how it is I’m moving into a new house. I’ve been elusive about it because to be honest, I’m freaked out by it all and having a lot of trouble coping with all the changes in my life the last few years. Especially now. Well, my mom passed away about 3 years ago and since then my dad has been terribly lonely, he never had to live alone before in his life.
Anyway, he’s found a lady who lost her husband a few years ago and they are going to get married and he’s going to move in to her house
so he’s ~giving me~ his house. It’s a bitter sweet deal for me. It’s hard for me to see my dad with someone other than my mom, but I don’t want him
to be lonely and miserable. Anyway, because of all this I am getting a much, much nicer home. As you’ll see, my dad’s dish is still on the side of the house
and he’s leaving it behind as well. So the plan is I’m going to go plant a single, fixed 1m dish aimed at 125 at the house he’s moving to, he’s taking his Openbox S9
with him because he really, really, REALLY likes his PBS. Everything else is, meh...... As long as he gets PBS there he’ll be happy.
So I’ll have his motorized dish which I’ll put my MicroHD on that one. Then I’ll move my motorized KU over there as well which will go on my A3.
So what I did today over there was take a tape measure and stretch it out along where the new fence will go.
Then I cut PVC tubes and fit them together to represent the footprint each dish will require, I measured each dish I have and cut tubes to represent the clearance needed on the back, the sides and all the way out to the edge OR the LNBF, whichever protrudes the most. The X piece in the middle is where the poles will need to go.
I laid them on the ground to see if I can fit them all within the 14x30 area, to make sure that they don’t overlap and cast “shadows” over one another or otherwise physically hit anything such as the fence, air conditioners or each other.
Much to my dismay I can just barely fit half of them on the side. Because I need to keep ‘like dishes’ together, IE FTA vs Dish subscription, I came to the conclusion that I can fit my FTA dishes on the side of the house but that my subscription dishes will have to go in the backyard along the side of the garage. I did not want any dishes in the backyard, I wanted it to be strictly tech-free back there, just gardens and stuff but there’s no other way.
So I’ll have to bury a conduit from the house to the garage then have my Dish SW31 switch branch out to the three dishes. I didn’t take a photo of that, I was tired and forgot to.
I spent a few hours baking in the sun shuffling these things around trying to make everything fit. I also took into account that the C-band BUD will have to be up high enough to clear the air conditioners.
I’ll actually have to have it’s pole about 6’ tall so it will clear. That will make working on it very much a pain in the backside and require a tall ladder. That part I’m not happy about.
Anyway, here’s a few pictures of how I was trying to figure this out today. I laid a compass next to each “jig” and aimed them in the direction needed. The first few pictures were me trying different things, all of which were a flop.
The LAST photo is fairly accurate placement of where my dishes will go.
Furtherest back near the fence/gate will be my 6’ mini-BUD. Next, moving to the front will be my 10’ BUD. Closer to the front is room for my 1m USALS KU dish which will be close to existing KU (my dads)
Back in between the two BUDs I have room to drop in a 1m to leave on 97. Or better yet, 103 which will never become SES-3. Jerks... So I can get all my FTA dishes into the house on two wires then my subscription dishes on a third wire.
It’s going to be a whole lot of digging. But since I’m having the fence extended on both sides of the house I’m going to have the fence people drill the holes for the dish poles and put the cement in but I’m going to do the leveling of them because I don’t want “good enough” or “close to level”, I want absolute DIGITAL precision with ZERO POINT ZERO percent error. They may not like a woman shooing them away to take over something they think they should do but that’s just too bad, I’m paying them to do a specific thing, MY WAY. MY WAY....
So now I have a pretty good idea of what needs to go where and that yes, it can be made to fit. Mostly. I’m not really pleased with having to put dishes in the backyard but there’s no other way.
Previously I was pretty much mum on how it is I’m moving into a new house. I’ve been elusive about it because to be honest, I’m freaked out by it all and having a lot of trouble coping with all the changes in my life the last few years. Especially now. Well, my mom passed away about 3 years ago and since then my dad has been terribly lonely, he never had to live alone before in his life.
Anyway, he’s found a lady who lost her husband a few years ago and they are going to get married and he’s going to move in to her house
so he’s ~giving me~ his house. It’s a bitter sweet deal for me. It’s hard for me to see my dad with someone other than my mom, but I don’t want him
to be lonely and miserable. Anyway, because of all this I am getting a much, much nicer home. As you’ll see, my dad’s dish is still on the side of the house
and he’s leaving it behind as well. So the plan is I’m going to go plant a single, fixed 1m dish aimed at 125 at the house he’s moving to, he’s taking his Openbox S9
with him because he really, really, REALLY likes his PBS. Everything else is, meh...... As long as he gets PBS there he’ll be happy.
So I’ll have his motorized dish which I’ll put my MicroHD on that one. Then I’ll move my motorized KU over there as well which will go on my A3.
So what I did today over there was take a tape measure and stretch it out along where the new fence will go.
Then I cut PVC tubes and fit them together to represent the footprint each dish will require, I measured each dish I have and cut tubes to represent the clearance needed on the back, the sides and all the way out to the edge OR the LNBF, whichever protrudes the most. The X piece in the middle is where the poles will need to go.
I laid them on the ground to see if I can fit them all within the 14x30 area, to make sure that they don’t overlap and cast “shadows” over one another or otherwise physically hit anything such as the fence, air conditioners or each other.
Much to my dismay I can just barely fit half of them on the side. Because I need to keep ‘like dishes’ together, IE FTA vs Dish subscription, I came to the conclusion that I can fit my FTA dishes on the side of the house but that my subscription dishes will have to go in the backyard along the side of the garage. I did not want any dishes in the backyard, I wanted it to be strictly tech-free back there, just gardens and stuff but there’s no other way.
So I’ll have to bury a conduit from the house to the garage then have my Dish SW31 switch branch out to the three dishes. I didn’t take a photo of that, I was tired and forgot to.
I spent a few hours baking in the sun shuffling these things around trying to make everything fit. I also took into account that the C-band BUD will have to be up high enough to clear the air conditioners.
I’ll actually have to have it’s pole about 6’ tall so it will clear. That will make working on it very much a pain in the backside and require a tall ladder. That part I’m not happy about.
Anyway, here’s a few pictures of how I was trying to figure this out today. I laid a compass next to each “jig” and aimed them in the direction needed. The first few pictures were me trying different things, all of which were a flop.
The LAST photo is fairly accurate placement of where my dishes will go.
Furtherest back near the fence/gate will be my 6’ mini-BUD. Next, moving to the front will be my 10’ BUD. Closer to the front is room for my 1m USALS KU dish which will be close to existing KU (my dads)
Back in between the two BUDs I have room to drop in a 1m to leave on 97. Or better yet, 103 which will never become SES-3. Jerks... So I can get all my FTA dishes into the house on two wires then my subscription dishes on a third wire.
It’s going to be a whole lot of digging. But since I’m having the fence extended on both sides of the house I’m going to have the fence people drill the holes for the dish poles and put the cement in but I’m going to do the leveling of them because I don’t want “good enough” or “close to level”, I want absolute DIGITAL precision with ZERO POINT ZERO percent error. They may not like a woman shooing them away to take over something they think they should do but that’s just too bad, I’m paying them to do a specific thing, MY WAY. MY WAY....
So now I have a pretty good idea of what needs to go where and that yes, it can be made to fit. Mostly. I’m not really pleased with having to put dishes in the backyard but there’s no other way.
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