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Originally Posted by rainman
Steve I think the log dish was use to help pull is dish back up when his motor wasn't working quite right.  |
Actually the "log dish" was just a temporary mount while I was trying to decide where to dig a hole. Worked pretty well.
I'd probably eventually run into problems with mY dish on a tree, however, because it was a very young tree and I cut the whole top off it. Trees that small tend to follow the sun a bit and bend if they are still growing. My dish wouldn't go UP or anything, but the whole tree might tilt. I did the same thing once with a martin house (bird appartment house), that I mounted right on top of a small tree like that. After a few years, it eventually tilted over quite a bit, I THINK because the bark was still growing more on the sunlit side than on the shaded side, but I might be wrong.
I haven't actually used my tree dish for more than a year. I actually pulled the COAX off it to go to my new 90CM dish. However I noticed that during the sun outages, that the shadow of the feed was still going across the center of the dish, so it hasn't moved too much in a year. That dish is all warped, and doesn't seem to work well for Ku. I was hoping to use my mirror technique to see if I could bend it back into shape, but I was too busy. Guess I'll have to wait till spring, unless my wife remembers that I promised to throw that dish away.