even with a fairly large size pole, you will still get quite a bit of wind
sway with a dish on the top.
I would instead make a tripod of much smaller tubing (1 sch 40, maybe). The
resulting structure will
be much more rigid.

bill

"Michael Shaffer" wrote in message
news:eCvcd.7789$6P5.1949@okepread02...
I'm putting up a satellite dish and I need a 12' 3.5" OD pole, would Home
Depot sell this? I don't want to go to a plumbing store, $$$. I called
some places in the phone book under scrap metal and they said they had
nothing like that. Any ideas?

Thanks
Mike

btw I'm in the DC area