So, we have one HR20 and four other D* receivers (including two HD TiVos) attached to a whole house TV and audio structure, which includes nine televisions and an amplified Channel Master deep fringe OTA antenna. But, we have a three LNB oval dish, so we cannot receive HD locals (don't need to get them from D*), nor will we be able to receive any of the new MPEG4 transmissions from D10. Of course, we call and ask them to come and install the new slimline 5 lnb dish. We take extra care to tell them that we have a Terk 4x8 powered multiswitch which won't work with the new dish, so be sure and bring a new MULTISWITCH!
Of course, the guys show up today at the very end of their 1-5 PM window without the multi-switch, but that's not the real problem. Help, help.
They wander around my attic and house for a half hour, make some calls to their supervisor, and then tell me that the only place they can put the new dish is on the roof of my back porch, the only 'one story' structural part of our house, with the dish facing forward, with a wire running outside my breakfast room window attached to my rear water faucet. This is tow and a half feet above our back door. This is because, they say, they can't find a ground in the attic (my current dish is on the roof by the chimney and works fine), and "can't run a ground wire over twenty feet," so they can't put the dish anywhere on the second floor of my house, or on the roof, but only on the first floor porch roof. Surely not.
Needless to say, we do not want a dish the size of a small airplane wing right over our back door with a wire attached to our water faucet, to say nothing of antgonizing our neighbors, the HOA, the city and the golf course, even tough we could waive a federal law at them and put it there if we really wanted a ridiculous eyesore right in front of our noses.
Surely someone has solved the problem of installing a second floor dish? Apparently, our three LNB dish now artfully on our roof and pointed elegantly is not now grounded and has never been. They will not put the new dish where the old one is, or anywhere near there.
We are charter D* subscribers and would like to keep the service, but we'll have the same problem again this spring when our new house is built unless someone can figure out how to ground the darn thing. FIOS here we come, or I guess a decent CEDIA installer we hire ourselves can figure it out? (at a cost, of course)
By the way, the Mastek geniuses who came out here are the same company who dug for Verizon fiber optics in our neighborhood last year and cut off our water, telephones, cable and gas at various times. They are not popular here, to say the least.
Does not give me confidence.
Is there a solution to this, oh Gurus of the Forum? I'm a little peevish, as you can tell, but I'd really like to keep the D* service and solve the problemo. The guys who came to our house today did not impress me as rocket scientists who were involved in the successful launch of D10.
Thanks. Regards,
The Camper
Of course, the guys show up today at the very end of their 1-5 PM window without the multi-switch, but that's not the real problem. Help, help.
They wander around my attic and house for a half hour, make some calls to their supervisor, and then tell me that the only place they can put the new dish is on the roof of my back porch, the only 'one story' structural part of our house, with the dish facing forward, with a wire running outside my breakfast room window attached to my rear water faucet. This is tow and a half feet above our back door. This is because, they say, they can't find a ground in the attic (my current dish is on the roof by the chimney and works fine), and "can't run a ground wire over twenty feet," so they can't put the dish anywhere on the second floor of my house, or on the roof, but only on the first floor porch roof. Surely not.
Needless to say, we do not want a dish the size of a small airplane wing right over our back door with a wire attached to our water faucet, to say nothing of antgonizing our neighbors, the HOA, the city and the golf course, even tough we could waive a federal law at them and put it there if we really wanted a ridiculous eyesore right in front of our noses.
Surely someone has solved the problem of installing a second floor dish? Apparently, our three LNB dish now artfully on our roof and pointed elegantly is not now grounded and has never been. They will not put the new dish where the old one is, or anywhere near there.
We are charter D* subscribers and would like to keep the service, but we'll have the same problem again this spring when our new house is built unless someone can figure out how to ground the darn thing. FIOS here we come, or I guess a decent CEDIA installer we hire ourselves can figure it out? (at a cost, of course)
By the way, the Mastek geniuses who came out here are the same company who dug for Verizon fiber optics in our neighborhood last year and cut off our water, telephones, cable and gas at various times. They are not popular here, to say the least.
Does not give me confidence.
Is there a solution to this, oh Gurus of the Forum? I'm a little peevish, as you can tell, but I'd really like to keep the D* service and solve the problemo. The guys who came to our house today did not impress me as rocket scientists who were involved in the successful launch of D10.
Thanks. Regards,
The Camper
