It's only 1.2m. According to the Astra 2 foot print, we are OK on a 0.9m, but I'd noticed new services on 1N which were moved over recently are less than 100% signal. Could just be that the transponders are cheaper/weaker on certain non-mainstream channels.
So about 2 years ago, we had a spare pipe sitting at the top of the drive and I decided to quickly mount the dish there. I say pipe, 450mm diameter, 50mm thick, 1m long concrete. About 150kg. I have been looking at alternative locations, but nothing really worked, until we had a tidy up at the rear of the house and found an area 4 x 4m which I could squeeze the dish into. The rear had been a bit of a dumping ground for a while.
This is one of those really annoying photos. The satellite dish was plumb in the middle of the shot at the top of the drive.
You can just see the house wall on the right of the picture. The 150kg 'pipe' was quite easily rolled into position. However, thanks to the newly layed paving, this job was much harder, as I had to roll it up hill first, then along the bank and down, all in an effort to avoid crossing new paving. The pipe was dropped into a hole and filled with small stones from the adjacent pile. The estimated combined mass is 300kg. The recommended concrete mass for a dish this size is 150kg.
Must dig some more holes and bury some more stones..
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