Satellite dish mount - with a complication!

[Tyre Smoke]

Okay chaps, here's the thing. I want to mount a sky dish on the roof of my caravan (yes, okay, get it off your chest now, then we can move on. ) but being a bloke, don't want to pay for one of these Maxview things clicky because a) I'm tight and b)surely we can come up with an alternative for a fraction of the cost?

I have the dish which currently resides on a tripod when in use, but I want something I can crank up from inside the van and then swivel around, hook up to the Sky+ and sit back with a cold one. Not swivel the dish here and there in the rain trying to get a signal and giving up in frustration only for my five year old to do it in seconds

What is needed is a wind up thingy that will bolt through the caravan roof where the existing (redundant) VHF aerial is that will wind the dish from a locked face down position to vertical (ish) and swivel through 360 degrees as well.

Tall order? Or can it be done?

Edited by Tyre Smoke on Wednesday 12th August 16:39

[Dave_ST220]

um, the dish angle as well as direction is important so unless you know you will always be on level ground you will always have to change the elevation angle as well as the direction. Not hard but get a cheap meter from Maplin that sqeals as the signal gets stronger (Pro Max used to do them).