Hi; Thanks Jerry. I may have a chance to get the dish down and at least put up something for 2 meters before the white stuff gets here. Its hard to think about snow when its 80 outside but we northerners know its coming. I think you said you were down in Louisiana so you must be asking "what the heck is snow". 73 Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gery Gaubert" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 11:36 AM Subject: satellite dishes My dish was mounted to the eves on my house and I am now using the = mounting bracket to hold my 2 meter antenna. It works good. I hit a = repeater hat is about 40 to 50 miles away with 40 watts.