pics of my back garden need help finding the best place to put the dish?

[mario123]

iv uploaded a few pics of where i live for some guidence from the members on where is best for me to mount my sat dish pls?

ok i live in the ground floor flat in the pic my next door neighbour has a fcouple or fw of big trees that may be a prob to me am not sure would this affect me?

also the house at the south of me is it far away enough not to be a prob to me?

so where is the best place do members think from my pics to put the dish?

cant wait to start work putting it up once i work out the best place for it

[mapex]

You dont say if its its fixed dish or motorised ? or
what sats you hope to pick up. Motorised in that
position looks like above the roof line to the right
of your front door but up that high can cause probs
with access...if height scares you.

[hypersonic]

Put it on a scaffold pole or clothes line post in your garden m8 so you can access it. If you use a clothes line post bury it in a deep hole with concrete with the spiders in the hole to prevent it turning in the wind. Make sure its absolutely vertical before you pour the concrete. As general rule, the height of any obstruction should be just less than half the distance from the obstruction.
The dish when mounted should face roughly south when the motor is on zero and the satellite is Thor 1 west. Your dish should be able pan 40 degrees east & west of south to get all the useful satellites. Why not play around with w*w.dishpointer.com, enter your postcode, zoom in, site your dish in different parts of your garden and see what satellites you can get. There is a diseqc motor setup tut in the DK downloads section.

[mario123]

You dont say if its its fixed dish or motorised ? or
what sats you hope to pick up. Motorised in that
position looks like above the roof line to the right
of your front door but up that high can cause probs
with access...if height scares you.

its a 1meter motorised setup will it be ok to put it up there? as i just live on the ground floor its a another flat above me?
i have a long pole with t and k brackets would it be ok to put the brakets at the bottom of the pole on my part of the wall? with the dish at the top of it? or would the distance from the dish to the braket be a prob?

[mario123]

Put it on a scaffold pole or clothes line post in your garden m8 so you can access it. If you use a clothes line post bury it in a deep hole with concrete with the spiders in the hole to prevent it turning in the wind. Make sure its absolutely vertical before you pour the concrete. As general rule, the height of any obstruction should be just less than half the distance from the obstruction.
The dish when mounted should face roughly south when the motor is on zero and the satellite is Thor 1 west. Your dish should be able pan 40 degrees east & west of south to get all the useful satellites. Why not play around with w*w.dishpointer.com, enter your postcode, zoom in, site your dish in different parts of your garden and see what satellites you can get. There is a diseqc motor setup tut in the DK downloads section.

i dont think it would be a good idea to ground mount it as the tree could be a prob for me. do u think i have line of site of the trees?

[smirnoff_rules]

looks like u will get all the sats where it is m8

put address in here at check http://www.dishpointer.com/

[hypersonic]

Mario

If the ground mounted dish is 5 feet off the ground, the tree is only going to affect the odd west satellite. Most of the popular satellites are east of south. A 1 metre dish stuck 50cm out on the back wall of your house wall is going to look pretty grotesque and you will need a ladder every time you wish to tune or fix it. You can at least disguise a garden situated dish with bushes or furniture on the northern side. Still, if you are going to wall mount it ~ best of luck !

[patkins]

I assume your dish in pic. 1 is on 28e and therefore see no reason why you wouldn`t get all the major sats if pole mounted near or in front of present dish.

[mario123]

looks like u will get all the sats where it is m8

put address in here at check Satellite Finder / Dish Pointing Calculator with Google Maps | DishPointer.com

yeah i noticed that on the site but i dont think its working corectly for my address because it dosent take the house at the bottom into account or the tree in my next door neigbours garden. just wish i could have a desent place to fit the dish and would have had it up ages ago. i have had in the spare room for the past 6 months

[mario123]

Mario

If the ground mounted dish is 5 feet off the ground, the tree is only going to affect the odd west satellite. Most of the popular satellites are east of south. A 1 metre dish stuck 50cm out on the back wall of your house wall is going to look pretty grotesque and you will need a ladder every time you wish to tune or fix it. You can at least disguise a garden situated dish with bushes or furniture on the northern side. Still, if you are going to wall mount it ~ best of luck !

yeah i agree with you mate the prob is them trees next door are all east of south with the house at the bottom garden behind my car directly south. i have no probs with west i have a clear line of sight of that part of the sky if i ground mount grrrr

[C64]

....and cut your grass.

[mario123]

I assume your dish in pic. 1 is on 28e and therefore see no reason why you wouldn`t get all the major sats if pole mounted near or in front of present dish.

yeah 28e thats the upstairs flats sly dish. yeah i was thinking of trying to get it mount it at near that height ether above my back door across from it or a bit to the left of the bike but slightly lower? what you think would be best m8?

[mario123]

i think that might have to wait till the dish is up

....and cut your grass.

[manxspud]

....and cut your grass.

and weed in-between them paver's

[mario123]

and weed in-between them paver's

yeah i know im waiting on the sun to come out again before doing it