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A polar mount for a satellite dish antenna has the flattened ends of three metal tubes bolted together to form a triangular base having three corners. Three tubular leg members have their corresponding lower flattened ends joined to the respective corners of the base. One leg member constitutes the

A polar mount for a satellite dish antenna has the flattened ends of three metal tubes bolted together to form a triangular base having three corners. Three tubular leg members have their corresponding lower flattened ends joined to the respective corners of the base. One leg member constitutes the polar axis shaft. The other two leg members are telescopic and adjustable in length. The upper ends of the two telescopic leg members and the upper end of the polar axis shaft are connected at a common point to create a pyramid-shaped structure. Brackets having bearings mounted to the outside back of the dish and the polar axis shaft extends through these bearings along an axis aligned with a diameter of the dish. The polar axis shaft is at an angle with respect to horizontal corresponding to the degrees of latitude at the antenna location. A tangent to the dish axis is at a declination offset angle relative to the polar axis shaft. The dish rotates on the polar axis shaft through a look angle. The latitude angle is obtainable by bending the polar axis tubular shaft at its flattened end while the other two legs extend or contract. The shaft is directable exactly to true north by shifting said common connection laterally which is accommodated by one of said leg members extending and the other contracting.

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A polar mount for a dish antenna, the dish having a concave side and corresponding convex side on a common axis that is to be selectively directed toward any of a plurality of geostationary satellites in the Clark oribt, said mount comprising: a plurality of elongated structural members joined toget

A polar mount for a dish antenna, the dish having a concave side and corresponding convex side on a common axis that is to be selectively directed toward any of a plurality of geostationary satellites in the Clark oribt, said mount comprising: a plurality of elongated structural members joined together to form a base, first and second elongated extensible and contractible leg membrs having corresponding nominally lower ends connected to said base in spaced apart relationship and opposite corresponding nominally upper ends connected at a common point, said leg members being pivotable jointly on said base, a polar axis shaft having a nominally lower end mounted to said base in spaced relationship with both of the lower ends of said leg members for all of said lower ends to be arranged in a triangle, and a nominally upper end of said shaft being joined with said upper ends of the leg members at said common point, said polar axis shaft being swingable about a vertical axis to enable the polar axis of the mount to align with the polar axis of the earth and being inclinable to an angle with respect to horizontal corresponding to the degrees of latitude at which the antenna is installed, applying a laterally directed shifting force to said joined leg members and shaft causing one of said leg members to extend and the other to contract to accommodate movement of said shaft in respect to the direction of the pole of the earth, bearing means and means for mounting said bearing means to said dish on its convex side, said polar axis shaft being journaled in said bearing means such that said dish can rotate on said polar axis shaft through a range of look angles, and means for locking said leg members in their existing state of extension and contraction when said polar axis shaft is pointed to the true pole of the earth and is inclined at said angle of the latitude.