Vladimir's Tech Blog

After first installation of T-90 Toroidal dish in Serbia, I helped my friend and college Davor Brajanoski to configure similar system for himself. However, in this case we had to put the T-90 dish on the roof of his building, and we were not allowed to drill the roof or walls. This requirement was imposed by the company who is taking care of the building, and we had to figure out what is the best way to install the dish. The pictures below show this screw-less installation.

We started with the standard balcony dish stand which we got from the local satellite shop in Schaerbeek, Brussels. From some strange reason unknown to me, here in Belgium you do not have many shops selling satellite equipment. But, in the mentioned part of Brussels you can find 6-7 satellite shops which have bit overpriced goods. Unfortunately they did not have a standing pole with the diameter of 60 mm which is required by T-90 Toroidal dish. I explained in one of previous articles why it is necessary to have exactly 60 mm wide stand. At the end, we used just a square bottom part of the stand, and luckily we found appropriate pole in another shop which already had suitable ending to mount on the square foot. However, that pole was 3 meter long and we needed only 50-60 cm part, so we cut it and afterwards we had only to figure out how to get rid of 2 meter long remaining part.

In order to protect the roof surface from the damage, we used some rubber duct tape to cover bit sharp bottom part of the dish holder. At the end, we put some heavy concrete tiles and bags with send to make sure that dish would not be moved by the wind.

And that’s it – this dish is standing happily on the roof already for a while, and even couple of storms did not move the system for a millimeter – the signal strength reported at the satellite receiver has not changed from the day one.