Hi,
Been up on my roof most of the morning, moving my new motorized (HH90) Fortec 33 inch dish around trying to find some signal quality, to no avail (Strength in the 75-79 range). I know there are a lot of little things I need to deal with (and will shortly after lunch) but I have a big issue I wanted to ask about first:
Trees.
My roof dish is 35 feet up. There are a bunch of trees to the south of my house, about 40 feet south of the dish and extending 50-60 feet high, ie about 20 feet of trees 40 feet away from where the dish is located. I know that is a big no-no, but was wondering if I might still get lucky because I was able to get a pretty strong signal when I had DishNetwork up on the roof in the exact same location that the FTA dish is now located.
So I was wondering, can you get Dish but not FTA? If I got Dish, is that a good sign or was I just lucky (between a tree or something).
Also, I have another option--a seawall into the Chesapeake Bay that has a pretty good southern view until you point to about 220 degrees magnetic. Totally unobstructed to the East, but trees and the such to the west. How much "East-West" (left right) is the dish going to turn? My magnetic declination at 10.85 (191 I gather) and I took a compass down there and didn't see many problems. I was just wondering how far left/right of due south the dish will move.
Been up on my roof most of the morning, moving my new motorized (HH90) Fortec 33 inch dish around trying to find some signal quality, to no avail (Strength in the 75-79 range). I know there are a lot of little things I need to deal with (and will shortly after lunch) but I have a big issue I wanted to ask about first:
Trees.
My roof dish is 35 feet up. There are a bunch of trees to the south of my house, about 40 feet south of the dish and extending 50-60 feet high, ie about 20 feet of trees 40 feet away from where the dish is located. I know that is a big no-no, but was wondering if I might still get lucky because I was able to get a pretty strong signal when I had DishNetwork up on the roof in the exact same location that the FTA dish is now located.
So I was wondering, can you get Dish but not FTA? If I got Dish, is that a good sign or was I just lucky (between a tree or something).
Also, I have another option--a seawall into the Chesapeake Bay that has a pretty good southern view until you point to about 220 degrees magnetic. Totally unobstructed to the East, but trees and the such to the west. How much "East-West" (left right) is the dish going to turn? My magnetic declination at 10.85 (191 I gather) and I took a compass down there and didn't see many problems. I was just wondering how far left/right of due south the dish will move.