[Commotion-dev] Do you have a bunch of old DirectTV-style dish brackets?

[Dan Staples]

On Mon 22 Jul 2013 11:17:30 PM EDT, Ben West wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm revisiting this old thread to share how awesome discarded
> satellite TV dish mounts are for low-cost (or even free) rooftop
> antenna masts.  These two pix show clever reuse of the dish mounting
> bracket (sans the parabolic dish itself), mated with a couple conduit
> hangers and a vertical length of 1/2" steel conduit to support the
> access points.
>
> http://goo.gl/ixVTI
> http://goo.gl/AltEh
>
> To make a DIY base suitable for use on flat rooftops, you can screw
> together some lengths of treated lumber into a "T", bolt the dish
> mounting bracket to it, and then weigh the base down with cinderblocks.
>
> If the rooftop is not your own, do first check with the building
> owner.  It can be good diligence to use one of those black rubber mats
> under the wooden base to deter rotting away the tarpaper or whatever
> the roof is topped with.
>
> I'm trying to keep a running photo log of my own rooftop adventures
> here, since all of this stuff is easy to assemble:
> http://gowasabi.net/content/your-rooftop
>
> (Of course, the best is to find an orphaned dish, rubber mat, metal
> base, AND cinderblocks already on the roof, just waiting to be
> re-purposed.)
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Ben West <ben at gowasabi.net
> <mailto:ben at gowasabi.net>> wrote:
>
>     This exterior wall mount for 2 access points came together quite
>     nicely.  It's the angled mounting bracket for a Direct TV dish,
>     minus the dish.  I used an ~18inch piece of 0.5inch metal conduit
>     to lash the APs to.
>
>     https://picasaweb.google.com/111527167238510651213/WasabiNetOnYourRooftop#5833782534554801042
>
>     Abandoned dishes like this one are practically a dime a dozen here
>     in St. Louis.  So many apartment tenants sign up satellite TV, and
>     then abandon it.  Frequently, the landlords are more than happy to
>     let you remove the orphaned equipment for free.
>
>     --
>     Ben West
>     http://gowasabi.net
>     ben at gowasabi.net <mailto:ben at gowasabi.net>
>     314-246-9434 <tel:314-246-9434>
>
>
>
>
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> Ben West
> http://gowasabi.net
> ben at gowasabi.net <mailto:ben at gowasabi.net>
> 314-246-9434
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Good idea. There are literally hundreds of DirectTV dishes mounted on 
abandoned houses around Baltimore.

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