StrikerFab started with a road trip.

In early 2024, my wife and I were preparing our Sprinter van for a trip to see the total solar eclipse. We'd been running Starlink for a couple of years, but every mounting option out there was overcomplicated, expensive, or required serious modifications to the dish. I already had an 80/20 roof rack — all I needed were a couple of adapters to hold the dish. So I designed and built them myself.

The mount worked so well that when we got home, I figured other people could probably use it too, and I listed it online. A few months later, SpaceX released the Starlink Mini. It was smaller, 12V-powered, with built-in Wi-Fi. I saw an opportunity for new ways to use Starlink and I designed what became our flagship Striker Mount, working evenings from hotel rooms while traveling for my day job. A fellow engineer in Montana who had early access to a Mini test-fit the very first unit for me — until then I'd been working entirely from a CAD model. With his help, we became the first company to market with a mount for the Starlink Mini.

Why "StrikerFab"?

Before this, I spent 25 years in IT — infrastructure and DevOps, then consulting, helping some of the largest financial institutions in the world deliver software faster. When the firm I worked for was acquired, I found myself culturally out of step with the new company. I've always believed in doing right by the customer, even when it isn't the easiest thing for the business. So I decided to go on strike from the corporate world and build something of my own. That's the name: Striker Fabrication.

The plan was a five-year transition into semi-retirement. It took one year before I resigned and went all-in.

Helene changed everything

In October 2024, Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina. Within a week, a friend and I loaded the Sprinter with a dozen Starlink Mini dishes fitted in our mounting hardware and drove north. We stopped at police and fire stations in the hardest-hit areas, left equipment with anyone who could use it, and asked where we were needed next. Each station sent us deeper in — eventually a fire chief cleared us down into Bat Cave, just north of Chimney Rock.

The whole way in and out, we ran our own dish on the roof as a mobile hotspot — no password, just open Wi-Fi — so people could call and text their families. I left my personal Mini behind when we ran out of inventory. The units went on to restore service to a mental health facility, support a mobile GIS assessment crew and a FEMA team, and run community hotspots so people could reach their families.

"We had no idea that they were coming, but they were exactly what we needed! ... I cannot overstate how helpful you were."
— Joey Webb, Jr., Chief Information Officer, Haywood County, NC

I'd never planned to make a big deal of that trip, but it's a big part of why I stopped balancing two careers and committed to StrikerFab full time. It's also why many emergency-response teams across the country run our mounts today.

How we build

USA-made, deliberately. It's genuinely hard to manufacture in America today, and we fight for it. Every aluminum frame is fabricated in the USA. Every plastic component is printed in-house from premium USA-made ASA filament. We looked hard at injection molding — the economics only worked offshore, and offshore meant losing control over quality and the ability to improve quickly. We kept production here instead.

Modular by design. Starlink releases new dishes; that's a certainty. Our mounts are built as an ecosystem of interchangeable parts so that when the next dish arrives, you can buy a basic frame and move over your existing handle, magnets, or brackets — up and running again at a fraction of the cost of a new setup.

Durable beyond expectations. Skeptical of 3D-printed parts? So are we — that's why ours are engineered and printed to a standard most people don't associate with printing. Entire commercial fleets run our mounts daily. We've shipped thousands worldwide with fewer than a dozen manufacturing defects, and every field report feeds directly back into stronger designs and tighter QC.

Who runs our mounts

We're proud to supply motorhome manufacturers, utility companies, federal and state emergency-response agencies, local municipalities across the country, van upfitters, and thousands of overlanders, RVers, and boaters — from the Arctic Circle to desert heat.

Who we are

StrikerFab is my wife and me, plus one more set of hands — a small team that runs lean and cares about every order. When you email support, you're talking to the people who designed and built your mount. We answer fast, we stand behind a 1-year warranty, and we do right by our customers. That's the whole business model.

— Bryan, Founder, StrikerFab · Jacksonville, Florida