I have been wugless for 2 months now after moving to a new place.
Now that all the ‘priorities’ on the inside/outside and aesthetics of the house making it a home are done I need to try get my grid back up to get on the wug again but I have a challenge I need some creative/constructive suggestions to solve.
In my past 2 places it has been a simple case of find appropriate wall, drill holes, mount tripod and secure pole. We are now renting one of the old prefab houses in Bothasig with no brick walls to simply drill into.
See pic link for where I would be mounting. Back wall
Ideally I don’t want to have to replace my kit with something smaller and lighter (as a last resort I might have to but that’s a discussion I will have with the wife only when it gets to that point).
Kit wise I’m running a RB 433AH in a poynting CPE hooked up to a big 31dBi on a 2m 38mm pole with a tripod wall mount.
The clearance on the tripod would easily get the pole past the roof overhang but the board on the A section of the house is only a few mm thick and would never support anything. I had ideas about getting in the roof and backing it somehow with wood to provide support but I’m taking very uneducated guesses at what to do.
My other idea was a new bracket against the wooden beam at the top which is covered but once I got up there I realized its too small for the spare scoop budget bracket I have and I doubt anything smaller will be strong enough.
Anyone have any creative ideas or suggestions? If anyone needs to look to make a better educated suggestion there will be coffee
doubt coffee will do the trick lol alcohol is the favorite on the wug
i would get a LHG5 and a normal tv antenna bracket and a aluminum pole and mount it against the wood beam u can even a 2 stays if u really want to there is not much u can do with those type of walls/houses
Just an idea: one of the issues here is that the weight of the kit is being transferred to the mount.
We need to transfer that elsewhere.
Could you put up a pole (smaller or larger diameter) under your current kit to support it all the way to the ground? Anchor it properly to the ground, then you just need a smaller way to attach it higher up. The stronger this extension pole the better of course…
Edit: you can grow a nice creeper up it? Keep the significant other happy…
The mount higher up needs to be able to deal with the torsion forces of the wind now - if you know the wind is bad then this idea may not solve anything, as then the mount on the wall needs to be strong enough to deal with that.
Thanks guys, now the question becomes cost and effort of a make shift support system to use my old kit or sell the old kit and go something like the LHG5 suggestion.
FYI - coffee would be before, alcohol would be for after success
Cheaptrick suggested if I do go the kit replacement option something else to look at might be the Dynadish as well (although I would have to try sell my old kit to subsidize) except I can’t find weight for it on the spec sheets so not sure if it would just end up being an issue like my grid.
Does anyone know what they weigh and how “wind friendly” they are?
