It appears from your photos that the clearance to front and back of the dish is a matter of inches? Did you calculate that ahead of time? Or wing it? And, are you getting a reduced Quality due to receiving through the glass window?
Yes we are talking less than a inch here
i can't install a longer LNB than what i have, this is the only LNB type i can use if i want to move the dish, thank god Inverto make short neck LNBs.
Yes i did alot of calculation with sinus and cossinus, what you do is that you calculate how far up the dish angle will hit the balcony wall on the satellite with highest elevation, then you calculate how far up the dish angle goes for the lowest satellite on the horizon i can receive, between that you make halfpoint and take into consideration of how far back you need to have the dish edge to clear the opening window of the balcony, i have about 5cm clearance in the opening window.
Example:
Say the height of the balcony wall is 100cm and the height to the roof is 250cm so you have a opening window of 150cm where the signal can pass thru, then your lowest elevation satellite needs to clear the lower wall at 100cm, then you calculate how far back the lower edge of the dish needs to be from the front wall and also how high up from the ground the lower edge needs to be to clear the 100cm for that satellite.
Then you do nearly same for the highest elevation satellite but opposite , in this example the total height is 250cm to the roof and the lowest front wall is 100cm high, you have a opening clear window of 150cm to play with where the signal comes thru, let's check how high the highest satellite will go, this time you need to check how high the upper edge of the dish will go as you already have cleared the lower edge at 100cm, in my example the upper edge will reach 143cm or about that which means there is no problems, the upper edge will clear the signal thru the window.
On top of these calcs you get the distance you need to put the dish from the front wall.
Hope it helped other people doing the same thing...
The actuator with the golden arm is from Danish LINAK, they don't make this model anymore, it's from the 80's and in mint condition.
The other one is from Swedish Landis&Gyr, it's not produced anymore, also from the 80's.
Nice installation!! Where you find the "arms" attached From the pole antenna to the wall?
It's from the Swedish company Pexymek
http://pexymek.com/index.php/catalog/product/view/id/62/s/vf-2550x2-fasadfaste/category/26/
They make professional mounts for the industry in galvanised Swedish steel.
