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Who sells the big blue dish mounts we all have on the roof?

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spinjector

Does anyone know who makes the dish mounts that we all have on the roof? This is for our 8-foot dish on C5.

It's a big steel column, painted blue, with six bolts around the bottom, and three more up in the middle, and a crank handle to adjust the elevation. I'd attach a pic to this message, but that's not an option on this forum.

I need to get a price for the "roof legs". This is the base that the column mounts onto, with four legs and plates that you pile cinder blocks on to hold it down.

We live with Clearchannel in this building, and theirs had a sticker on it for a company called Peake Communications in Silver Spring, MD, but Goggle doesn't know who they are; they seem to no longer be in business.
 
This I can help you with.

You are exactly describing the column that is/was part of a Comtech fiberglass dish. Are you sure it's 8' and not 12' (3.8 meter)? They sold a lot of them in the C-band era, and for good reason -- they work great.

What you are looking for is a "non-penetrating roof mount" (NPRM). A prime maker is Baird, found here http://www.bairdsatellitesupports.com/

Beware, they are pricey, but are well-built and well worth it (versus having your dish wobble around or blow over).

Paul E. Burt, Chief Engineer
Alert FM
 
Thanks. Baird seems to be it from looking at the pics on their website. And yes it's a 12-foot dish; I just went up & measured it with a tape measure. I guess standing on the top step of a stepladder on the roof of a six-story office building at 3am in rain, cold, high wind, and with a yellow plastic raincoat flapping in one's face tends to distort perspective somewhat... =-)
 
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