Hello all. I have a roof mount (tagelvoet) that uses 60 x 40 x 5mm concrete tiles for ballast. The ballast weight is approximately 108kg

My intention is to mount the dish and mount on top of a flat metal shipping container that I use for storage. It is clear in the direction of the satellite. I have a Triax TDS 110 offset fed dish. The standard pole for this roof mount is 70cm long which means that the lower edge of the dish will be around 40 cm above the metal roof and around 1.5m from a wall to the West of the dish.

How much clearance do I need? The 3dB BW is 1.6 degrees according to the datasheet.

I have no idea what is ‘safe’, I don't want to pick up noise from the container my questions are due to a lack of experience with offset dishes and 10.5GHz, maybe I am over thinking things?

Thanks in advance.

73

Conrad PA5Y

Thanks Dave, I have no intention transmitting on the WB uplink. I may at some point see if I can  decode signals but I am mainly interested in the NB transponder. One thing at a time.

Conrad