Dish location on new home

[TheKrell]

I just signed a new 2-yr agreement with Dish to get their best promo without careful consideration of where I might be able to locate a dish on my new home. Don't judge.

It turns out that the home is situated facing SSE, so according to the DishPointer website, it looks like a clear LOS if the dish were mounted just about anywhere on the western side of the house. The only problem I see is it has to look over my cherry tree in front of the house. So my tentative plan is to affix it to the side of the house near the back. My elevation is 44.9 deg so this should work.

How can the antenna be grounded? The electrical service entrance is on the east side of the house.

 

[Pepper]

Mrs Pepper told me back in the day, she didn't want anything attached to the house, so all my dish antennae are in the back yard on poles. Line of sight is over the house. This also makes it easier to get to if you ever want to adjust something. Also when it's in the yard and they'll be burying the cable (presumably with messenger-ground wire), it might be an easier path to your grounding point before entering the house.

 

[tjboston5676]

I just signed a new 2-yr agreement with Dish to get their best promo without careful consideration of where I might be able to locate a dish on my new home. Don't judge.

It turns out that the home is situated facing SSE, so according to the DishPointer website, it looks like a clear LOS if the dish were mounted just about anywhere on the western side of the house. The only problem I see is it has to look over my cherry tree in front of the house. So my tentative plan is to affix it to the side of the house near the back. My elevation is 44.9 deg so this should work.

How can the antenna be grounded? The electrical service entrance is on the east side of the house.

Mount the dish where there's line of site then run messenger cable (zero breaks) to grounding location and install ground block.

While technically it should be grounding per the NEC, 90% of installations do go ungrounded. Most likely it won't be an issue. In my experience an ungrounded system will cause issues on maybe 0.5% of all ungrounded installations, and usually it's because they already have other electrical issues.

 

[primestar31]

I just signed a new 2-yr agreement with Dish to get their best promo without careful consideration of where I might be able to locate a dish on my new home. Don't judge.

It turns out that the home is situated facing SSE, so according to the DishPointer website, it looks like a clear LOS if the dish were mounted just about anywhere on the western side of the house. The only problem I see is it has to look over my cherry tree in front of the house. So my tentative plan is to affix it to the side of the house near the back. My elevation is 44.9 deg so this should work.

How can the antenna be grounded? The electrical service entrance is on the east side of the house.

EVES mount. Don't punch holes in your roof. My tv tower is on the opposite side of my house from my service entrance, so I have a ground rod at the tower, and also a 6 gauge solid copper wire running from the tower, all the way to the ground rod by the service entrance to bond them together.

 

[tjboston5676]

EVES mount. Don't punch holes in your roof. My tv tower is on the opposite side of my house from my service entrance, so I have a ground rod at the tower, and also a 6 gauge solid copper wire running from the tower, all the way to the ground rod by the service entrance to bond them together.

This works too. I'm glad you bonded them together. Most people just drive a rod in the ground and think that's good enough. But it must be bonded to the house ground as well.
An incorrecty grounded system can do much more harm than a system not grounded at all.