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Dish should fix it for free if you have protection plan, just tell them you have signal loss and to make note it needs a new pole. You could also do it yourself. The proper way would be a 7-8' pole with 3ft in the ground. A lot of times it's hard to get past 2' though but that's my personal...

A local retailer put this dish in, I think about 10 years ago. I don't remember how long the pole was, but as you can see there's 4 feet above ground, so I'm sure there's no more than 2 feet underground, if it's even a 6-foot pole and not 5 feet. More to the point, the ground was very rocky...

That looks just like the mount my Direct TV guy installed on my home.

Roof being replaced and would prefer to do a under eave mount on my brick wall instead of punching holes in a new roof. Considered a ground pole mount but decided it was too complicated to move dish where that would need to be done. So, would this work, even though it's for DirecTV or does...

Our “Wrong Tool / Right Tool” series, now in its 11th year, helps DIYers choose the best way to move forward with common projects. Folks, you should be grounding anything and everything on your roof. If it’s metal, it will have a tendency to accumulate static electricity. That’s the first step...

Today wasn't a good day to try this since there were clouds obscuring the sun partially. On a clear day, I will check the yard near the end of the day when the sun is at about 13 degrees elevation to see what I can discover. 13 degrees elevation occurs around 5:30 pm local time. At that time...

No, not what I meant. Exactly. Any ground not covered by shadow when the sun lines up with the satellite is a place where you can plant a dish to receive the satellite. ... At 5:22 PM I saw a large section of my backyard bathed in sunlight. Just have to decide if I want to move my 1.2 meter...

I’d be curious why the cables are hooked up now when they weren’t before. That’s a nice solid mount. But if it was me, I’d pass, as I don’t have someone who could remove it and install it in my yard for cheap enough. Someone insured, as this is really close to a building. I’d prefer something...

This year sure has flown by, hasn’t it? This is the first year in a long time when practically everyone feels good about being out and about. There may be some health concerns in the months to come, but that’s a problem for tomorrow, right? Today the weather is pretty good, and maybe you might...

All six of my antennas and my two sat dishes are all grounded with 4 gauge wire to my house ground. But even that will not protect you from a direct hit. I still throw radio cables out the window when bad storms hit.

As I mentioned in my last post.......I have those wires where I can disconnect them at the plug in installed when storms are around or predicted. Picture a male and female 4 pin plug with one side of it mounted in the Vbox and the other connected to the dish. Maybe I can post a pic if you...

I haven't used a VBox in a few years. Isn't it correct that even if the coax to the dish is disconnected during a storm there are still the control wires to your actuator from the VBox that remain connected at all times? This 'path' into your home would be enough for lightning to find it's way...

OK, cards on the table. A lot of people pay too much to watch TV. If you subscribe to pay television, you’ll find it’s a great value but your bill is still probably over $100. Even if you stream, a subscription to the five most popular services will also get you close to that $100 mark...

Not even going to pretend to have the same knowledge as you guys do when it comes to installing our equipment. You're the expert there :)

I've owned and used my SG2100 for 12 years. Over that time it has turned a Fortec Star 1.2-metre and a Star Choice 1-metre dish. The 1.2-metre dish weighs 17 kg (37 lbs). The motor has worked OK but I wouldn't recommend this combination. My dishes were always well shielded from the wind and...

Vacuum deposition, sputtering. I never found a metallic paint that had any electrical conductivity. Window screening. Worked in a pager/cell phone repair shop with triple mesh screen rooms grounded with earth rods. That made the room 100% rf "quiet". Hams use antennas tuned for specific...

Thank you. This is extremely helpful. I have no problem doing cable burial myself. The ground is like concrete now but Fall rains should soften it up. Can a Tech tie into/splice onto an existing run? I already have a 100' run so only a 50-60' extension would be needed. There is no house...

How deep does the cable have to be?

There's a lot there lol. Different techs will handle it differently. But this is how I would handle it. 1. The shorter the cable run the better. From dish all the way to receiver you want to be under 200' total. So just 160' from dish to house is already starting off with quite a bit if...

I appreciate you entertaining my queries lol but I am going to ask how hard is it to do the whole hard drive switch? Now I'll admit I am a neophyte and if its more than unscrewing screws and unplugging it and plugging it into the other it might be outside my realm of ability. Also, if dish sees...

I just signed up for Dish network and have an install scheduled early next week and would like to know what to expect from the tech doing the install. (I'm converting from Directv). My current setup is 100' of buried coax from my home to a ground mast. At the time I buried the cable myself in...

Technically of you removed the drive from old hopper and put it in new hopper you could see your recording. However I'm not sure if the receiver and smartcard numbers are stored into the hard drive. So it may say you aren't active. But from there I guess you could transfer to external hard drive...

Thank you for responding, I have a couple clarifying questions, How exactly is the storage effected by the inability to boot up? Wouldn't the new hopper just treat it like an external drive and access the storage as long as thats not fried and transfer the recordings? Or is there some kind of...

If it won't boot up then unfortunately there's no way to transfer recordings. Aa far as surge protectors go there's no guarantee it won't happen again. If it's high enough voltage it's going to destroy everything including the surge protector no matter what. However I do not recommend the coax...

Have you checked dishpointer.com ? The reason I ask is that if you are in California you should get at least 16 degrees of elevation and about 46 degrees skew. I have tried getting 180E here in California a few times without success. My problem is another house and trees that are in the way...