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Hi

I have a satellite dish system from Aldi......it comes with a fixing to go on the wall.....and also a fitting to go into a suction device that goes onto the motorhome ......

But I dont fancy risking that so have bought a satellite tripod.......but try as I may I cannot fixthe sattelite dish onto the tripod........

Any advice would be really grateful

cheers

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B&Q sell a tube for satellite dishes. Usually the dish clamps onto the tube and of course the tube could be cut to length. It depends on how you connect to the tripod, did it come with a short lenght of tube which could be clamped to the dish?.

David

You could ditch the supplied dish, and use a bog standard 60cm dish, they are cheap, in fact Lidl were doing them for £9.99 not so long back, and should be easy to attach to your tripod, providing the tripod is one designed to take a dish and not a camera?.

The LNB on the supplied dish, will with a bit of luck be a std 40mm fitting, so will fit onto almost any sat dish, except the older Sky dish's of course.

Cheers to you all

Now have 2 U bolts and there is no problem.....feel a dope after all that as its fairly obvious.

Next question.....off to Holland in a few weeks will the dish pick up satellite there or will I need a bigger dish.

Cheers

Should be OK, as the Astra2B satellite, has now been retired along with it's troublesome spot beam onto the UK, it's temporary replacement is Astra1N, as far as I am aware is using a wide beam for Europe, as it is destined for the 19.2East slot, when Astra2B's pukka replacement goes aloft at the 28.2East Sky slot. although it is rumoured that satellite will have an even tighter spot beam for UK, than what Astra2B had, but lets hope not.

Personally I would take a 60cm Dish, just in case there is tree shade hampering line of sight to the satellite.