[BC] Temporary roof mount for STL dish

[Cowboy]

On Tuesday 10 March 2009 09:21 am, Xmitters at aol.com wrote:
>  
>  Hello:
>  
>  We are about to embark in an STL experiment here at NIU.
>  
>  I have a 4 foot Anexter Mark grid dish that I want to place at the top of one 
>  of our buildings here. Since it's temporary, I need something that I can sit 
>  on the roof, not poke any holes,  that will hold the dish rigidly enough so 
>  movement will not affect our RF signal level experiments. 
>  
>  What's out there that will do this?

 Remembering where I got 'em is the hard part.
 Who are you ? Oh, wait.....

 I've used non-penetrating roof mounts up to 12 foot solid dishes.
 They're basicly a fairly large bolt together assembly of heavily
 galvanized angle iron, with some diagonal bracing to the mast.
 You assemble the mount, fill the "racks" with cinder block, then
 hang the dish.
 Almost regardless of size, they put about 20 pounds per square foot
 distributed across the roof surface.
 They also have wind ratings that are rather impressive.

 What they don't do, is a pitched roof.

 I'll see if I can find the photo's of the 10 footer I did in Cincinnati.

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Cowboy