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Hello everyone!

We've decided to get a C-Band dish and are feeling a bit overwhelmed. We thought that the decision to get one and upgrade from our trusty Winegard antenna would be the hardest part hah! we were mistaken *laugh* We are bound and determined to make this work now but we have a ton of questions and are grateful to any help anyone can provide.

We live near the city of covington in washington state (more than happy to provide lat and log info). My husband and I did some reading and we thought that we would need a 6 foot C-Band Dish. Then it occurred to us that we dont have any clue about what we satellites we should be aiming at etc. We are looking for primarily english and spanish programming, Possibly cctv english (my mom picks that up sometimes on her KU band dish).

1) What type of dish should we be looking for if we want a motorized C-Band Dish? what is polar mount? is that motorized?
2) How big should it be to be able pick up satellites from our location?
3) What part of the arc(is that right its the arc yeah? *laugh) should we be aiming at
4) What satellites should we be able to pick up that are interesting?
5) How much of an impact do trees have on C-Band Dishes?
6) My husband did some sighting and it looks like out best bet is to put the dish in the front corner of our yard (we think). Im not really sure what voodoo/black/magic he used to arrive at the conclusion since we have only a general idea of where the dish should be pointing. With that in mind, we have allocated a large amount of our home improvement budget to hiding the dish. We thought about putting up a fence, maybe a trellis with wisteria etc.. Any ideas on good ways to hide the dish? Were pretty sure were going to put up a fence to keep people from messing with it (throwing rocks, using it as a beer can holder, using it as a trash can *laugh*
7) My mom bought us a sathawk receiver that does c and ku band. Do you think it will work ok?
8) Anything else were missing? (Im sure there is

We've included pics of the proposed install site. The dish will be pointing at the house and those trees are a good 100 feet *edit* My husband says more than 100 feet away. and are a 30 degree angle up to where my husband was standing (he did some sore of voodoo math with a level)

I promise will post pictures of the install

Thanks for all your help!!!