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Lambhuna
15th May, 2008, 12:21 PM
Nearly ready to go for a motorised system. Just trying to work out where to put dish. I live in a row of four houses me being one of the middle 2. Front of house faces west near as dammit. So Line of houses face South. So I think I am gonna put dish at back of house. If I attach below guttering with 18" brackets, is there a rule of thumb or something to find length of pole to miss peak of roof?

krazylegz
17th May, 2008, 06:16 AM
not really m8 trial and error......just get a nice long pole and use T&K brackets, make sure you have a nice big gap between the brackets so it's more sturdy;)

i have a massively high roof and get most satellites from 55w to 39e...cant get past 39e due to my roofline, i'll upload a picture of mine when i fininsh work to show you how mine looks m8

Curly
17th May, 2008, 10:40 AM
I'm in the same boat as you m8.
I've been reading up on this for a while now as my house faces dead south, but I don't want a big dish on the front wall. Mine is going round the back so will need to be able to "see" over the roof.

Have a look here (http://www.uksatellitehelp.co.uk/2007/08/12/satellite-alignment-calculator-v2/). Put in your postcode and drag the red pushpin to your house. You can the locate all the sats from the drop down box. It will draw a red line in the direction of the sat and give you its angle of elevation.

To work out the angle from your dish to the roofline have a look here (http://www.easycalculation.com/trigonometry/triangle-angles.php).
You may need to nip in the loft to measure the hight of the ridge from the loft floor/gutter height, and from the gutter to the middle of the loft/ridge position.

I'm in the process of making my stand off brackets :)

Most sats of interest are east of south so deffo put it on the back of your house.

Hope this helps m8

Curly

BTW hiya Lee ;)