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I picked the dish up at a yard sale for 15 bucks, came with the mounting pole too. My roof is actually sloped pretty good, the fourth picture shows it, I held the camera pretty much level, also in the fourth picture it has the peak of roof compared to the fence. Even though its not level, it stays put pretty well, that 2x4 is almost 4 foot long and it is redwood, weighs more than your average cheap pine 2x4. The hardest part was making the little 'A' mount to get the can in the right position, since my miter box only goes as low as 45 degrees, but the angle of the cut needed to be 30 degrees. Also trying to figure out how to hold it together was pretty tough. I ended up mashing it in a vice, and drilling some pilot holes, then putting some drywall screws in (i have a whole bunch of em). Do you have a link for that bi-quad antenna, I tried a biquad design, and it failed horribly, maybe I did something wrong or something. One idea I had that I might try out is building a mini dish as a collector or something similar.
Brian
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