Mount dish of soffit overlooking roof?

[eahyland]

I planning to mount my dish under the soffit and have the dish look over the roof. I'd like to know if my angle will be okay. I have dish 500 now but may upgrade to HD (1000?) soon. Roof pitch is 10/12. Sat aim is 233 AZ, 36 L, 127 SK.

Does anyone know if this will work before I waste my time and put hole where I don't need them?

 

[Dah-Henny]

Sounds like a 10/12 pitch is a steeper angle than the 36 degree elevation of the dish look. I think that pitch is darn near 40 degrees.

Also, if you get a larger dish, you might have to factor in the possibility that the dish might come with struts.

 

[KKlare]

Before business, WELCOME.

To add to your problems, soffits are often not well supported and do not provide much base leverage. But as dahenny said if you are trying to shoot over this roof you have a line-of-sight (LOS) problem due to the extreme pitch and especially for the sats not on your longitude, look at all the sats using the elevation numbers from a "300" dish for each. If possible, get the dish on the other (south) side of the building and run the cable around the house--150 ft. of cable is preferred to no LOS.

-Ken

 

[ERSanders]

I planning to mount my dish under the soffit and have the dish look over the roof. I'd like to know if my angle will be okay. I have dish 500 now but may upgrade to HD (1000?) soon. Roof pitch is 10/12. Sat aim is 233 AZ, 36 L, 127 SK.

Does anyone know if this will work before I waste my time and put hole where I don't need them?

You don't indicate your physical location (EDIT: Now I see it!). If you are in snow country, don't forget to add the X" of snow that may accumulate (and drift) onto the roof over which you are shooting.

 

[eahyland]

Looks like I'll just have to mount it on the roof. If I were on the other side of the roof then trees would block my line of sight. I was just trying to avoid holes in my roof. I've seen the type that you put on the roof with CMU blocks but that's just plain ugly.

Thanks for the help. I did already waste time by removing part of the soffit and beefing it up.