Buck Turgidson wrote:
My neighbor just removed a giant tree, so I think I can now get a dish. A
few years ago, I remember that there was a website in which you put your
lat/long (or zip code), and it would tell you the date and time and which
the sun would be in the same spot as the satellite, for aiming purposes.

Before you go to a lot of trouble check out what you want to receive.

If you ae buying a commerical package, they will gladly come and check
out exactly where the dish has to go, the size and type etc.

If you want your own dish, go to the LyngSat pages and determine which
satellites carry the programs you want and then you can nose around to
find how to aim the dish.

IMHO you have to price the equipment carefully, the local DBS provider
here in Israel (YES) had a free installation deal. The break even point
was about 9 months per receiver with a single dish/feedhorn. Since I wanted
three receivers, it was not worth buying my own dish.

Since the programs I wanted to view were spread out over several
sattelites, I would have had to buy multiple feed horns and possibly a
wide angle dish, with the appropriate switching arrangment at each
receiver, which quickly increased the cost.

In my case a movable dish to change satellites was not an option, my children
would not stand for me moving the dish. :-)

Geoff.

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