It depends on the dish, some are chimney mounted, some are on tripods like 
mine, some are mounted other ways. I have the dish here, you could probably 
put a 2 meter/440 antenna on the tripod mine is on but I don't know if I'd 
go too high with it unless it's a low wind environment there. I have a lot 
of wind h ere and mine had come loose a couple times but once that was taken 
care of it's nice and solid now and a vertical antenna is going to take a 
lot less wind load than the dish. I don't plan to find out though, comcast 
is a company I hope never to do business with if there's any reasonable 
alternative so the dish is staying here. Next time I move, we'll see but 
likely it will be the dish or nothing.
Anyway, it really depends on the dish how it's mounted, I think most are on 
tripods.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 1:30 PM
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