HeyBub wrote:
Don't put the dish where you need a ladder to access it.

Mount the dish on a 6' pole anchored to the ground like a fence post. Or
bolt to a deck railing. Easier to adjust, easier to remove snow, easier to
take down.

The difference between 6' and 16' compared to 25,000 miles is insignificant.


Mine is on a post in the back yard, just as you've suggested. However, I've had
to trim a hell of a lot of vegetation out of the way to keep a clear view of the
bird. Had I mounted it up on the back of the house I probably wouldn't have had
to do any of that.

One particular annoyance was losing the signal in the rain. Not rain fade, mind
you... the water would weigh down branches and then they'd droop down in front
of the dish. It wasn't always obvious which one was the offender and you had to
go out in the rain to fix it. If you waited until it stopped raining then the
branch would dry and spring back to its normal innocent position. A real PITA.
I finally fixed it permanently by cutting the whole damned tree down. No more
signal loss in all but the most torrential of downpours.



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com