Wannabe Question - Sorry if duplicate
This is a wonderful network and people are vey helpful! Recently discovered it. Looked hard but could not find an answer so I am posing this hoping I am not duplicating a thread.
I signed up with Dish (directly, not through a reseller) and the installer shows up the other day as promised (I know!), pulls out a tiny view finder, looks around and tells me that it looks bad. Goes around the house and come back and tells me there is no LoS. Granted I live on a wooded lot, but I thought if he would mount it on the chimney, at that height, I do have a clear view of the sky, at that 40 degree angle. He climbs up and does some looking and comes back to tell me there is no LoS. I ask him for options and he tells me that I can put it on my roof, but a storm will pull the SuperDish and the roof with it, so he will not do it.
You guys on this forum had me all excited, so this outcome broke my heart . I have now contacted a local reseller (the big guy in town). He says his guys have seen it all, so they will come and see how they can "set me up."
Can you guys give me any tips on what I should know or look for or be careful about when I am trying to get a SuperDish installed under circumstances where a simple install with clean LoS is not happening? I want Dish real bad!! But I do not want to let even a single tree go (average age of each tree on my lot is over 70 years), so that is not an option.
This is a wonderful network and people are vey helpful! Recently discovered it. Looked hard but could not find an answer so I am posing this hoping I am not duplicating a thread.
I signed up with Dish (directly, not through a reseller) and the installer shows up the other day as promised (I know!), pulls out a tiny view finder, looks around and tells me that it looks bad. Goes around the house and come back and tells me there is no LoS. Granted I live on a wooded lot, but I thought if he would mount it on the chimney, at that height, I do have a clear view of the sky, at that 40 degree angle. He climbs up and does some looking and comes back to tell me there is no LoS. I ask him for options and he tells me that I can put it on my roof, but a storm will pull the SuperDish and the roof with it, so he will not do it.
You guys on this forum had me all excited, so this outcome broke my heart . I have now contacted a local reseller (the big guy in town). He says his guys have seen it all, so they will come and see how they can "set me up."
Can you guys give me any tips on what I should know or look for or be careful about when I am trying to get a SuperDish installed under circumstances where a simple install with clean LoS is not happening? I want Dish real bad!! But I do not want to let even a single tree go (average age of each tree on my lot is over 70 years), so that is not an option.