Starlink Flat Mount Modification for Vans, Boats and Cars 

I love how much faith you have in that pergo laminate floor, that you'll cut directly on it.

Great process John. I'm sure a lot of other van owners have been wondering if this is possible. Thanks for being the guinea pig.

You are one bad dude! In flip flops to no shoes 😂 nice work!! 🙏🏽

Very cool John! Total deja vue watching this, I just finished the same project and posted a video last week. Welcome to the flat starlink sprinter club 🎉

I love the improvisation!!

Really fun, I've been holding off on getting starlink as I feel like a new antenna specifically for RV/mobile applications must be somewhere in the design process at starlink already. But if it doesn't come around I'll be looking to DIY as well.

Your employees gonna be laughing at your aluminum welding skills. 😁

Interesting to watch for sure, but I’ll pop for the In Motion unit. 😊

awesome thank you. you might want to get the wire protected under the roof rack in case when you're loading luggage you dump some heavy thing on it. very cool thank you.

Hy, greetings from Germany and a big compliment to this change of the dishy. I would never dare to do what you did but again: crazy idea but an amazing result 👍👍👍✌️🍀🌞

In motion use now approved. I just got the Starlink email last week!

Brandon Walsh is a guy in the USA making flat mounts/holders for Star Link "Star Mount Systems" from what i've seen you buy the mount and it comes with all the info you need to cut down the dish what wiring you need to keep and how to mount it

great idea and video. You could have used a thinner plastic sheet and then fibreglassed it, fibreglassing some brackets to the back which could then be used to bolt it to a roof frame of some sort.

Great idea - maybe if you let Starlink know, they might be able to build it like yours. Curious what happens over the long term - especially with varying weather conditions. Presumably snow accumulation will stop it from working (not sure if there is a fix for that). It would be interesting to know what happens when the aluminum heats up the dish.

Nice work. I’ve got a wind up tv Ariel that I converted. No cutting necessary and moves around. 🍻🌮

My only worry is those angle tabs holding dishy into the aluminium frame. It will be small, but the phased antennas near those tabs will be affected by the proximity of those pieces of meta. Probably better to glue the dish into the frame or at least cut down the tabs so they minimally intrude across the antenna surface.

This was really lower profile, nice job. For a cleaner look you could have made the length of the new plastic backing 21" so that the new backing is 1" beyond the dish on the length sides. Then you could have screwed through the plastic to secure it. No aluminum frame needed. My plan has always been to drill a hole to be able to disconnect the motor and then just cut the mast down/off. Should be able to get it down to 4" height. But I like your design and might have to try this lower profile design.

24:55 I see about 100 B2 bike carriers and I’m on week 7 of waiting for mine! 😉 LEGGO!

in motion is now available using a higher performance unit mounted to top of van.I just bought one. Included is a wedge mount and antenna is built differently as well.

For anyone doing this I would recommend lapping the cut out with coarse sandpaper on a flat surface

Did you add any circuit board supports like the original case had?

does this work while the vehicle is in motion? i see that you have the HP on your newer Vid. btw, im watching your vid then the commercial still John:)

I just got a Starlink RV setup. I'm wondering if a heat gun would work to separate the back from the front surface with the board attached? Then it'd be easier and less risky cutting the back panel and removing the motor setup.

Have you been using it while driving? Have you had a warning from Starlink to stop this?

Yes but will the antenna pickup a signal if your van is parked next to tall trees?

Thanks for sharing your experience. What is the brand/model of the roof deck? Who installed it?

hello guys! Nice work! How it is working after time? Are you satisfied?

Fascinating video! Great job 👍

Great hands on video which have many applications. Perhaps I don't completely understand Starlink but I was under the impression that the antenna needs to physically align itself to achieve connection to satellites. Wouldn't mounting it horizontally counter this and therefore limit its effectiveness?

I thought it was hard to stomach drilling a 3/8 hole on top of a brand new Thule for a solar panel.... this is something else

Is Owl working on a different solution that keeps the core functionality?

Did you ever remove any of the alum angle at/near the vertical edge by the GPS receiver??? Or... how's it working?

Perfect.

Hello, Does your antenna still work after the modification? I made this modification and mine worked for 4 days then went offline. I contacted Starlink because my regional mobile subscription was in red. They told me that the antenna motors or the antenna were blocked. Have you changed the Starlink settings so that it can work without the motors? Thank you for your reply, which may help me get my Starlink working again.

valeu mister

Lets goo, love your video😍😍

When your van has more advanced satellite connection than a military vehicle.

i don't think it will run after that because the dish programed to be moving

they sell a roof mounted in-motion antenna.

Great job bro👍🏽

channel locks would work good.

Thats awesome!!! I want one!!!

I believe there is an easier way turning off the motor by logging into the modem GUI and disabling the motor from the settings, better than gutting your dish open.

After its was mounted - how is the reception ??

Amazing! 💖

Any update after using it

Exquisite solution…now please add roof starlink install as another new addition to your product line 😂…

Nice job.

Youre crazy for not doing the 12V mod while you're at it!

You should use a hatchet next time to get the back off.

this may turn into a inexpensive install because to cover 4 point of the compass 4 dishes would be service need of a requirement and modification to support to support standard POE may be a standard requirement of service so dishes can be served by a poe switch, noting that with other variants of xg service that can also interface with POE powering the poe switch may have to serve as a wan gateway of sorts and be used as a login service every additional service you might use as a communications hub for the outside world especially if considering a 24-48vdc powering option for poe powering options Noting that if if you have rely within VAC powering solutions for POE hardware 12 vdc may not a feasible power solution ..

Great post!!!!

Great work thank

Star link now has a flat mount system

Perhaps an alternative would be flag holder style receiver tube on the side of a latter?

Hello😊

A $ 600.00 tinker awesome !

It is not Starlink that prohibits use while moving; it is the FCC. However, I think the FCC recently granted the ability to use in motion so I suspect a new antenna will be coming soon.

Why not just buy the RV system without the motor ?

I would have used an oscillating cut off tool. That disk cutter with no guard is sketchy.

I don’t have the nerve. I just place my dishy where it gets best reception. I don’t need it while driving - yet

I like how agile offroad decided to copy you today....

And not even testing how it works after all this? Why not?

But does it work?

23:37 what RTV did you use?

You are absolutely nuts to destroy that nice satellite, you can use a cell booster while driving and then install the satellite when you are stationary! 🥶 😤

Vacuum cleaner

No need for this now as they has RV option now.

men you real crezy you brock starlink to show you beter den antena alalalalalala aa ok nice motorhome you have :))

24:00 what aflexio did you use?