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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Great info and photo album :)  I also once turned a DirecTV dish into a wifi
antenna.  It was pretty laborious but it seemed to work quite well.

This makes me want to get off the computer and onto roofs!

.hc

On 07/22/2013 11:17 PM, 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> 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
>> 314-246-9434
>>
> 
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