Tallest Dish on a Pole
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PKII, back in the C-band era, I heard that they used to call the satellite dish the state flower of West Virginia. Do you still see many BUDs in your part of the state?
Yeah it's still the state flower.
Actually, I don't see many new installs of BUDs I've had one since the early 80's. The new state flowers are Dish Network and Directv.
That counts. The house helps support it I see. Yeah hills here too but I don't think I could get one up about 100 feet without it being a hazard.
I came across a 300 dish once about 5 years ago that was mounted at the top of a 40ft antenna tower. I have no idea why. It was on the south side of the house and it was all farm fields for miles with no trees. Must have been installed my an old TV antenna installer. The higher the antenna the better the signal, right?
Back in the hey day of C-band I did several installs like the pictured one above. I don't remember how tall the poles were but they were above the roof of single story houses. Can't remember if I did any two story ones or not that was long time ago.
I'm doing a tall pole now for my 10 footer. 21' long with 6' in the ground.
Hope to pour concrete tommorrow
Hope to pour concrete tommorrow
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Impressive! You even have the PVC going directly into the house. I can not tell if the other end goes into the pole or up on the opposite side of the pole. If into the pole, pull a "pull string" before you pour or does that PVC continue up the center of the pipe?.
There is a 6 foot dish about 10 blocks away thats up close to 30ft high bracketed to a tall 2 story house
The PVC (Sch 40 Non-metallic rigid conduit 1" ID) runs right thru out the top of the pole. I'll have 5 coax and a motor control cable in this conduit. The AJAK mount doesn't cover the top of the pole so I can do this. The cableing on this dish will be hidden
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I have a 12' dish that was on a twenty foot pole in the middle of a lawn, of course it was braced with guy-wires. I cut the pole ground level, don't know how deep in concrete it went. I've got to get that dish set-up.
The top of the free-standing cedar post at the bottom of our property is 14' above ground, the bottom 5' below. The local power company was upgrading in the area so the contractors gave me the post and stuck it in the ground for $40.
Some years back, Linuxman posted pix of a Birdview about 20' in the air in a trailer park.
They use a six inch diameter tube, so freestanding 20' was not really a problem.
I'll look for it later.
I have a 40' telephone pole planted in my back yard.
It's about 8' in the ground.
So far, no dishes on it, but I did have plans at one time!
Here are other amusing pictures I've seen over the years (some from SatGuys)
They use a six inch diameter tube, so freestanding 20' was not really a problem.
I'll look for it later.
I have a 40' telephone pole planted in my back yard.
It's about 8' in the ground.
So far, no dishes on it, but I did have plans at one time!
Here are other amusing pictures I've seen over the years (some from SatGuys)
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