Joe, congrats man. I purchased the dishpointer app to make sure I can get mine installed at my apartment. The tech comes Wednesday morning. Someone please tell me I used the app right and that this looks good?
Dish had to be on the north side of our house?
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That is it.......clear sky.......no problems.
Somehow, I would have expected the sats to array exactly opposite of the way they are seen in your picture. IF you are in Virginia.........it looks like you are sighting them from west of the array. Anyhow, bolt the mast to the rafter tail and run the cable to the ground block near the electric meter (the tech will know) and you are it.
Let us know how it goes...send a pic with the dish plz.
joe
Thanks for the reply Joe. I'll for sure post a pic. The way they are running is from S/SW to more SW. So 119 is the lowest and most SW of all Sats. I am aiming at about 205 degrees or so. 99 is highest in the sky. Yep, in Roanoke Va.
Ok, Now I get it.....you are shooting from your apartment deck...........should work fine. My installer eye saw the house in from of your shot....dish could go there also. Those three birds at left are the ones you need. The 110 & 119 still have function but not everywhere.
Joe
Yep, on my deck, lol. Well I am going to ask them to attach it to the deck rail or put one of those tripods in that anchor to the rail. That's even better because the only sat that gave me real concern was 119. Those three I can hit with no problem. This is all sounding good.
With your local sd channels on 119, you will have to get an sl5 lnb setup if you are getting the install from Directv. If you use an independent, then you could use an sl3 lnb. It doesn't really matter since you know you have a good line of sight for 119.
Nice post man thanks for sharing the helpfully post
Are you from Cheshire UK? I'm in your namesake here in the US, Cheshire Connecticut!
The dish has a rectangular thing with one round white thing on it so I assume that's an sl3?
The signal strength setting shows two tuners, 99, 101, 103, SWM.
Hey, here is the picture. Exactly where it should have been pointing based off of dishpointer, an amazing app. Thy put a 3LNB in.
Which part of Upstate NY?....A zip code would help us help you immensely
I take one look around the property after surveying the house lines of sight. If it looks like the shot won't last, it's a walk.
Can't spend too much time arguing with mother nature or an insisting customer.
If this OP wants to have trees cut, it's his call. One thing an installer should NEVER do is point out trees or a tree that needs to go. Too much liability.
Did you read the thread? He has already gotten his install. The original post was two weeks ago.
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I'm going to sue you for telling me that tree needs topped!
Yeah, prove that one in court. No liability. I've had several customers have me come out when they have somebody out to top/cut trees so I can tell them what needs cleared out
Calm down? Why do you think I am upset? You posted on a two week old thread without reading it. How should I react?
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