My mom is ok with my 18" front lawn signal blaster and one dish on the back deck. She says any more and it will start to look like house of marcians. I had the idea of building a structure of some kind in the back yard like a platform to put my dish cluster and she is ok with that but it will be until the spring. I also had the idea of having a shed for my experiments and ham stuff built in the spring and she is more than happy to get that built for me we just need to get the shrubbery taken care of. As the yard never gets used much she is ok with that. I just need to figure out how to keep everything out of the way for now.
getting dish happy and need to find a way to hide all my dishes
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at the moment I am looking for a way to put up my 33" and having it out of the way so it doesn't look like house of marcians. I told her it is temporary for now and I will put it away when Im done using it or find a place to hide it
You could camouflage it by painting it to match the surroundings. Maybe even let her pick what is painted on it like a pattern, flowers or something - just nothing reflective as that could damage the lnbf.
Clever negotiator. You'll never be done using it!
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Just use a flat paint that matches the background of where the dish is placed. Amazing how no one notices something like a big dish as long as it blends in with the surroundings.
A radar dome would be cool though. Might have visitors showing up unexpectedly with suburbans with tinted windows though...
Maybe a canvas-covered garage type building would work. Used to use canvas on microwave dishes up on towers to protect the feeds from weather, as long as it is non-metallic it should work fine.
A radar dome would be cool though. Might have visitors showing up unexpectedly with suburbans with tinted windows though...
Maybe a canvas-covered garage type building would work. Used to use canvas on microwave dishes up on towers to protect the feeds from weather, as long as it is non-metallic it should work fine.
I was thinking about roofing your shed with something like Onduline (do they still make that?) or fiberglass panels. Put the dish(es) up under the roof. You may need to omit a rafter or two, depending on the size of the dish, slope of the roof, etc.Just use a flat paint that matches the background of where the dish is placed. Amazing how no one notices something like a big dish as long as it blends in with the surroundings.
A radar dome would be cool though. Might have visitors showing up unexpectedly with suburbans with tinted windows though...
Maybe a canvas-covered garage type building would work. Used to use canvas on microwave dishes up on towers to protect the feeds from weather, as long as it is non-metallic it should work fine.
The roof would need excellent drainage and an application of an agent to bead and reject water (rain-x, etc.). Otherwise, satellite signals will be severely attenuated with any standing, sheeting or streaming water. The key is to bead and disperse the water without sheeting or streaming.
We gave up trying to hide our stuff. One new dish....
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Quit showing off
Well they are SORT of hidden, placed in the bottom of a canyon lol... Weekend is over back on shift at 1530 today.
You can see the shrouds covering the back of the antennas, they are heated with Natural Gas you can see the gas heaters on the bottom of the large antennas. The new dish uses electricity for heat.they're painted to blend in with the snow?
