First, I'd like to say thanks for all the positive feedback and encouragement. I was really feeling dumb for trying to mount my dish on ‘bouncy’ siding. So, after not working on this project for most of Saturday and thinking things through, I believe I’ve found a new place to mount the dish on a solid brick exterior wall. I just wanted to verify a couple things….
I found this site –
Make your own Inclinometer – on another thread (or maybe even a different forum) and made myself one. I then used the “SatFinder” program to generate this information for my exact LAT & LON (verified w/ GPS).
*** My East, West, & True South Satellites:
Sat Name Sat Lng Az(t) Az(m)
El Skew
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EchoStar 3 61.5W 127.7 122.7
36.1 -41.5
Telstar 5 97.0W 180.5 175.5
51.5 0.4
EchoStar 2 148.0W 246.3 241.3
23.6 50.1
I then took the Inclinometer and verified that I could see over the neighbors’ house at 36.1˚ to my left & 23.6˚ to my right; looking south from the spot I wanted to mount the dish. I want to verify that this is the correct process before I go drilling holes in my bricks. I also wanted to verify that the anchors that I referenced in
this thread will indeed work in brick.
Thanks in advance!
reVx