Richard,  

If your new home had the 5 GHZ tvro SATELLITE SERVICE, THE POLAR MOUNT
FOR THE DISH MAY HAVE BEEN IN CONCRETE AND YOU COULD USE IT FOR  OTHER
PURPOSES BUT AS John suggests low elevation and low wind load.  

If the dish is still in place for this service, you could always keep it
around for ham satellite work as the new 5 GHZ birds will like this kind
of antenna.  

Dish network and Direct TV use much higher frequencies (likely twice as
high) as the older 5 GHz stuff and while there are some birds flying or
planned that will use the 10 GHZ bands I am not sure of how much
activity is there yet.  

Check with amsat AT WWW.AMSAT.ORG for data.  

The satellite activity at 2 M and 70 CM and allows  and lower
frequencies would not have much use for the TVRO dishes nor the smaller
dishes for the other modern TV services.  



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-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Fiorello
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 11:31 AM
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Subject: satolite dishes

Hello;
This may be much to general a question but I'm wondering if anyone here
has had much experience with tv satellite dishes.  My future home has a
dish which will probably go to the scrap pile.  I'm wondering how they
are mounted?  Are they generally on some kind of a tripod which could be
used for a 2 meter 40 cm antenna?
Richard