Update of 16 ft Paraclipse dish Installation
Couldn't dig a hole 5 ft deep!!!!! Used tractor augar to dig to solid rock at 3 ft, used 70# jackhammer and it just jumped up and down on the solid granite rock!!!! Enlarged hole significantly at bottom, welded piece of angle iron to pipe, cut off six inches so had 4.5 feet sticking out of ground, and poured concrete! Took 3 of us to set the dish up and bolt it in place after it was fully assembled.
Had to make about 100 of the U clips out of aluminum welding wire. Still have the last small panel to install and a few more U clips to tie the last two panels together. This photo was taken with the antenna on the ground and facing NW without LNB. Had to borrow my wife's iPad to photograph the satellite arc superimposed on the dish at its final location.
Hopefully a few more days, the system should be working.
Looks like Intelsat 903 will be my East satellite at the tree line with an Orbital Position of -34.5 degrees and a Elevation of 13.5 degrees. Completely clear to the horizon to the West.