So I am 2 weeks away from getting my first c-band dish!!! The neighbor that is giving it too me has it on a large pole which is bracketed to the house but its very old and the screws are rusted, we are probably going to have to cut the pole. Lets say the pole turns out useless and basically all I'm getting is the antenna from the mount up.
At my house, I am living with my dad for the time being and don't want to do anything permanent. Dad might be changing his living arrangements soon anyway so I will need to move the dish reasonably soon. We have a large concrete pad at the back of the pool which also happens to have the best view of the arc.
That being said, I would like to mount on a non-penetrating roof mount and I'm going to park it on that concrete pad for the time being. Ive been looking around, buying a new non-pen roof mount is really expensive and I don't even know if they are going to handle an 8 footer. I see the attached image by another forum member but i have never seen a non-pen mount like that.
Let's say my office has a non pen roof mount on the roof we are not using, and it had a small pole on it holding a Motorola wireless backhaul antenna that we no longer use. (sorry no pic as of now) I wonder if I could convert that to use hold the 8 footer?
So I guess my question is, what do I need to know about mounting this dish, not in the ground but on it?
At my house, I am living with my dad for the time being and don't want to do anything permanent. Dad might be changing his living arrangements soon anyway so I will need to move the dish reasonably soon. We have a large concrete pad at the back of the pool which also happens to have the best view of the arc.
That being said, I would like to mount on a non-penetrating roof mount and I'm going to park it on that concrete pad for the time being. Ive been looking around, buying a new non-pen roof mount is really expensive and I don't even know if they are going to handle an 8 footer. I see the attached image by another forum member but i have never seen a non-pen mount like that.
Let's say my office has a non pen roof mount on the roof we are not using, and it had a small pole on it holding a Motorola wireless backhaul antenna that we no longer use. (sorry no pic as of now) I wonder if I could convert that to use hold the 8 footer?
So I guess my question is, what do I need to know about mounting this dish, not in the ground but on it?