Would it be really stupid to fit a freesat aerial to a cast iron downspout using pipe clamps? I'm a bit limited on where things can go and the downspout is in just the right place. I don't think wind load will be an issue it will go in a valley between a gable end and a roof, so protected from two sides.
I can't see it being a problem, I've climbed up and down one or two in the distant past and they always seem pretty solid things. I would give it a go if that's the most convenient place to put it.
Peter.
Freesat needs a dish...
Freeview?
... aerial.
No.
You will need a dish as well, simply attaching the LNB to the drain pipe isn't going to achieve anything useful.
Or are you just being difficult?
Climbing around on roofs I sometimes see burns on metal guttering, presumably caused by lightning.
Bill
I am perfectly happy with aerial or antenna as a generic word for any device that emits or receives radio waves.
No, that won't do. Aerials are aerials and dishes are dishes.
Bill
All the Freesat receivers I have seen have connect to a LNB and dish. If there's an aerial then what can be considered as one is in the LNB - if you discount a Squarial!
I don't know anyone else who would refer to the dish/LNB as an aerial, though cable is sometimes referred to as aerial cable?
To answer the question, I see no reason why not. It depends on what you refer to as a downspout, and how firmly is is attached to the wall. Similarly on the type and quality of "pipe clamps" you intend to use.
At least Freeview has Dave!
I found this aerial clamped to a 22mm water pipe in the boiler room of the place I told you we stayed at last week.
It's a wi-fi access point.
In spite of appearances it performed very well in all the rooms of the building. The underlying broadband was rubbish, but it was not the fault of the wi-fi.
Surely using the slang term 'dish' for a parabolic reflector (and its variants) is very unprofessional?
Now hands that judicious can feel soft as your face, with mild green Fairy liquid.
Forgot the link
NASA always have (Well the Leftpondian equivalent).
meant to include a link:
In article , Graham. writes
Now that's cheeky!
Well done for avoiding the descriptor 'hotspot'.
Presumably the downspout runs down a bit of wall, is there not space for the wall plate of a wok? They aren't very big maybe 6 x 4" and you don't have to faff about trying to work out how to interface the pipe clamps to the wok mounting.
Presumably this is UK so a normal "Sky Zone 1" wok is all that is required. They vary a bit some do have tube mounts at the back but most are on an arm that allows the wok to look parallel to the wall or around a building corner. Even if they have tube mount it'll be for 1" ish tube not down spout size.
If I was to use that tearm at all (unlikley) it would be in the context of a *public* access point. This wasn't.
Sorry, but I can't see the word aerial in that link. Antenna has historically been associated with a rigid structure and an aerial more wire-like.
FWIW, I once heard it defined that an aerial is for receiving and an antenna for TX & RX.
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