Aerial Masts

[Robert Chasmer <robert.chasmer@xxxxxxx>]

I guess this isn't strictly Home Automation but maybe you can help

I have a problem or should I say the birds and pigeons have a problem.
Every day they sit on the aerials attached to my house, above the car
and drop serious amounts of ....  I mean lots of it.

I can't move the car and theres a limit to where I can move the aerials.
I'm in a poor reception area, so I can't move the aerials into the loft.

My current thinking is to replace the mast (pole) with a sort of bent
or 'cranked' type.  The idea being that I can keep the current maximum
height (around 7m), but ensure the droppings fall on the roof rather
than my now not so shiney car.

I've found a few sites but to be honest nothing that seems either long
enough or bent enough.  1.8m with a 0.6m standoff the best I've
found so far.  I need a bit of length at the aerial end so I can stack
a couple of aerials with enough space between them.

Has anyone go any experience of this sort of thing or a good place to
look for selfbuild poles.  Can you join them together?

*
http://www.maplin.co.uk/products/detailsframe.asp?SKU=917&partcode=XQ63T:&ca
rt=960952395&d=f&type=1&eqWorlddatarq=TV%20/%20Sat&eqSectiondatarq=Masts&Sec
Data=[eqSectiondata]&GroupData=[eqGroupdatarq]&SubGroup=[eqSubGroupdatarq]

* http://www.maxview.ltd.uk/trade/alloy.html

* http://www.mselectrical.co.uk/aerialacc/aerialacc.htm

* http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Index/Aerials_Index/Fixings/index.html

Thanks


Rob
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