Re: Dish tripods, and How to aim the dish myself

I am using a patio umbrella stand for my mount. For the pole, I'm
cannibalized a halogen lamp that unscrewed into 3 pieces. It fits great
into the stand, but it's a little skinny towards the top where the dish is
secured to the pole. We just wrapped the top with a little cardboard to
add thickness, and viola. It's sturdy, not to bad looking, and easy to
adjust.

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, RockinRick
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Quick and dirty option. Use the normal dish mount, bolt it to a plank,
> put a couple of cinder blocks on the plank.
> Is there vertical railing on the balcony? You can also use a plank to
> adapt it to the railing.
> I believe you can get something like a tripod at dealers like
> skyvision.
> 
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:00:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry) wrote:
> 
> >I'm about to move, and have two questions that hopefully someone can help
> >answer:
> >
> >1) I'm moving to an apartment where the dish will have to be on my
> >balcony.  I've heard Radio Shack has tripods to mount dishes on, but the
> >few I've check and their web site don't seem to cay any.  Does anyone know
> >of a place where I can get tripods to mount a satellite dish onto?
> >
> >2) Can anyone give me a lead on how to aim the dish myself?  Rather than
> >pay someone to come out and do it for me, I'd like to know where to look
> >to figure out how to aim the dish myself.  I have a south/southwest facing
> >balcony, which is the right directions, but I'm not sure how/where to get
> >the specifics.
> >
> >Thanks in advance.